Getting Started

This is the fun part! The more you learn about netvibes, the more you’ll want add, remove, expand, customize and play with it.

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When you first log on to http://www.netvibes.com, you’ll see that there’s no logo, just a title that says ‘Type your page title here’. Click it and give your netvibes a name.

Of course, there’s a whole lot more. You can use netvibes to:

• Check your email
• Search the web
• Search for podcasts and videos – and play with them
• Read feeds from your favorite blogs and news sites
• Stay connected with your friends on MySpace
• Get organized

Take a look at the widgets that are already on your netvibes page. When your roll your mouse over each widget, you’ll see a small menu bar pop-up at the top of the widget.

In the widget’s menu bar, if you’d like to delete the widget, just click X. If you’d like to customize your widget’s login information or preferences, click Edit. If you click the little envelope, a list of Widget Actions will pop-up, allowing you to Share as a favorite, share it directly with your friends and promote on your blog.

Feel free to add more widgets, feeds, and tabs, move them around, or go to Settings to change your language or design theme—this is your own netvibes page, so have fun with your creation.

There's also the small triangle icon where you can change the colours of the widgets.

Tabs let you have multiple pages in your netvibes. On the right of each tab is a 'New Tab or + icon. Clicking on it creates a new page. Soon you’ve just created your second (or third, or fourth…) netvibes page!

You can share feeds, widgets and netvibes tabs via email or instant messages.

• Scroll over the widget > click on the envelope > Share as favorite – for public activities viewing > Add a comment (optional) > Share
• Scroll over the widget > click on the envelope > Send to your public page (if whitelisted) > Send
• Scroll over the widget > click on the envelope > Send to a friend > by email/ by IM.

• Type in your friend’s email address or multiple addresses
• Check 'Share widget pre-configured'
• Check 'Send me a copy of the email'
• Send.

• Check ‘Share widget pre-configured’
• Right click and copy this link into your messaging application

• Check ‘Share widget pre-configured’
• Select all
• Preview of the button
• Ok, Preview It
• Yes, add it to my page OR cancel

• Click on the small arrow on the right of the tab title and tray will expand below the tab
• Under 'Share', is the option to share the tab via email, IM or my blog.

• Type in your friend’s email address or multiple addresses
• Check 'Share widget pre-configured'
• Check 'Send me a copy of the email'
• Send

• Check ‘Share widget pre-configured’
• Right click and copy this link into your messaging application

• Check ‘Share widget pre-configured’
• Select all
• Preview of the button
• Ok, Preview It
• Yes, add it to my page OR cancel

There are 2 methods of quickly adding widgets and feeds:

NB. the Search window above Browse Categories. Useful if you know what you're looking for - whether it is the name of the widgets or a related keyword. On the right of it are (popular local) widgets featured on netvibes.

Click on ‘Add a feed’ > Enter a URL/ Address

The feed window will then appear with 'Add to your Page' across the top. If it contains what you're looking for, click on it. If not, click X at the top right of the window.

• Add Content > Add a Feed > OPML > Import > Search (locate folder) > import
• Add Content > Add a Feed > Export > open with… > export

Seek out widgets related to or on the subject of interest eg. Tennis.

Add Content > Tennis > click on green icon > browse over widgets and select a widget > Add to my page.

A list of categories appear on the right. Here, you can view and add popular widgets under Features Widgets: Business, Lifestyle, Sports to name a few.

• Add Content
• Browse Categories
• Music
• Browse over widgets and select a widget
• Add to my page.

Essential Widgets are useful for day to day management of your life. To illustrate, there is the Weather widget - prepare yourself for a rainy day. Hotmail widget - view all unread emails in your Inbox. Flickr photos widget - colour your page with personal photos and for your eyes only. Digg widget - social bookmarking and blogging of technology and science articles.

There are at least 40 Essential Widgets to add to your page and access at your convenience.

Add Content > Essential Widgets > webnote > Add to my page

Alternatively, see all results directly on Ecosystem – http://eco.netvibes.com

If your account is configured to France, US, China and Germany you can also add widgets and feeds from the ‘Suggest’ option at the top right of your webpage. Remaining countries will have this option in due course.

• Click on ‘Add content’
• Click on ‘Content wizard’

Simply select a subject of interest ie. Business, Women & Fashion, Politics etc.

This automatically creates a new Tab named either of the above.

Click on the tab and within it is content you can use as a guideline or add to you webpage.

There are 5 main methods:

• Add content > Add a feed
• Enter a feed address or website URL/ Address for autodetection
• Add feed

The window will then appear with 'Add to your Page' across the top. If it contains what you're looking for, click on it. If not, click X at the top right of the window.

• Add content > Add a feed
• Enter a feed address or website URL/ Address for autodetection
• Add feed

The window will then appear with 'Add to your Page' across the top. If it contains what you're looking for, click on it. If not, click X at the top right of the window.

If the blog or website publishes RSS Feeds, netvibes automatically detect it and add it as a new widget on your netvibes page.

* Add content > Add a feed

• Simply enter in an RSS or Atom feed address (URL) and netvibes will add it as a new widget on your netvibes page. To find the RSS or Atom feed address on a website, check the header or footer of the page, or your browser’s address bar for an RSS/Atom/XML logo:

Then, simply right-click it and copy the link address and paste it into the ‘Add a Feed’ tool discussed above.

Most popular websites and blogs already have a netvibes button on it. If you see the button, click it and the RSS Feed or the widget will automatically add to your page.

If you want to add a netvibes button to your website, you need to submit your RSS feed into Ecosystem: http://eco.netvibes.com

Go to http://eco.netvibes.com/tools/. Drag the Add2netvibes button directly into your browser’s bookmark toolbar. Now whenever you surf to a blog or webpage you like, simply click the Add2netvibes button in your toolbar and a window will pop-up to allow you to instantly add the site’s feed to your netvibes page.

In Firefox 2.0 & 3.0, you have an option to choose a default RSS Aggregator:

• Select Tools
• Options into the Feed tab where you can choose an aggregator.

If netvibes is not on the list, refer to http://eco.netvibes.com/tools/ to quickly install netvibes feed reader button into your Firefox browser.

netvibes created an extension for Firefox that enables it to automatically detect if there is feed in a page and to add it directly into your netvibes page. The Firefox extension is available at http://eco.netvibes.com/tools/

• Scroll over the top border of a widget (make sure you’re over a blank section and not over any buttons).
• Drag & drop the widget into the new tab. Click on the new tab to ensure the widget is present.

Not all widgets have this option but most do. Simply click ‘Edit’ in the top right of the widget and change the Title or Name field.

• Double click on the name of the tab.
• Type in the new name.

Click on the unread number indicator eg. (41) near the tab title, select OK when the confirmation message appears.

Click on the unread number indicator eg. (33) near the widget title, select OK when the confirmation message appears.