If you have spent anytime working in Google Sites you may have found a roadblock when it comes to embedding javascript into Google Sites.  The specific tag that Google Sites does not like is <script> </script>. Luckily for us, Miguel Guhlin and Karl Fisch have written about a workaround.  Their posts are specific to Diigo, but I am happy to report that this will work for any site that has an embedable object that use the <script> </script> code.  My purpose was to embed the Twitter profile widget into my site www.mikeagostinelli.com  I also ran into this problem when trying to embed my Onepage card in my Google Site.

Here is the fix:

You need to create a Google Gadget file that you can access from a server.  I used my public Dropbox as my place to share the file.  To create the Google Gadget you need to use a text editor (Like notepad on Windows or Textedit on a Mac) and write the following code:

Once you copy your url to the saved .xml Google Gadget code, you will have javascript embedded through your very own custom Google Gadget.

And that is what we like to call:  Gettin’ your Nerd on 

If you would like to see a finished gadget to work from, here is a like to my custom twitter Google Gadget:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/529536/miketwittergadget.xml

And finally if you want to see the custom twitter Google Gadget live on my site:

http://www.mikeagostinelli.com/

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