Lots to say, but no time to type it all in - hopefully with a few days off in the coming weeks I'll be able to remedy that soon.
In the mean time, I had a bright idea - I wanted to find a better way to publish the charts and stats from the panels, but I was looking for a smarter way, one not requiring screenshots and Photobucket. After a little thought and research I came up with a reasonable smart solution.
1) Store the data on Google documents (a bit of a fiddle)
2) Create the charts you require (again fiddly, but possible)
3) Change the blog design to include a HTML gadget
4) Select publish from the chart, select and copy the script
5) Paste the script into the gadget
6) Sit back and bask in your own crapulence
(Step 6 not compulsory).
I like this approach, it took a bit of fiddling and you don't have the chart control option you do in Excel. But it means you can add charts to your blog that update in real time - change the data, the chart changes in Google docs and so do the charts on the blog. I'm quite impressed with how easy it was to do, I shall have to give some thought as to how I might exploit it more. But for the time being version 1.00 is up and running on the blog (hopefully upper right) and I may allow myself a little smile of self satisfaction.
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