Monday, January 26, 2009

Blidgets

Not only can you find interesting widgets at WidgetBox, but you can also create your own.

Click this link to Make a Widget. You will be presented with the following screen.

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Choose Blog/Feed and you will be prompted for your blog feed url.

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Enter your feed url and continue and it attempts to generate your blidget but I don’t think it will be exactly what you want, you’ll need to customize it.

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Customize the blidget. By choosing the Appearance – I went for the leopard skin.

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And the content – I went for the slide show.

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And finally the cataloguing details. People can search for your finished widget – if you want them to.

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Once you save the widget, you will get the widget screen. This is the screen that anyone who wants your widget will see. You can further customize your widget here and then “Get Widget”

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And you will be given a little box that has the javascript you need to publish your widget on any page.

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My javascript looks like this.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js"></script>

<script>if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('6468a97f-3334-484d-923f-7bbc75305463');</script>

<noscript></noscript>

Once you have the Javascript, just place it wherever you can place html. I use one in my forum signatures.

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