Yes, there is a way to share an iGoogle theme with a limited user base. You store the theme as your browser home page instead of your iGoogle page.
You still need to have your XML and images on a public server but, instead of submitting the theme to Google, you simply add "?skin=<theme-url>" to the end of your iGoogle URL, and make it the browser's home page. This is described in the "To test your theme" section of the Developer's Guide at: http://code.google.com/apis/themes/docs/dev_guide.html#Testing What you would be doing, in effect, is to set each company computer up with a permanent theme test URL as its home page. To illustrate with one of my own themes, located at: http://users.on.net/~dvcox/gadgets/kaputar.xml simply make: http://www.google.com/ig?skin= http://users.on.net/~dvcox/gadgets/kaputar.xml your browser home page. The only drawback I can see is that you always need to hit the browser's home button to get back to the iGoogle page, rather than using the "back to iGoogle" links in iGoogle itself. Hope this makes sense, and I wish you happy theming! Dave On Aug 14, 8:46 pm, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I've just discovered the joys of the Theme API and am interested in > creating a theme for our employees to use. > > Is it possible to share a theme without it being listed as a publicly > available theme? > > I don't want to waste a couple of months designing something only to > discover it can only be published publicly. > > Thanks in advance > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Themes API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-themes-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
