How Widgets Work In Your Site?

Posted by ghirly | 12:54 AM

By George Tee


One of the promotional tools that are recently used by many websites is the widget. It is a sort of plug-ins, modules and snippets that are embedded in the web page. This can be written in HTML, flash and JavaScript and other scripting languages. If you are into creating blogs, embedding widget in your blogs is very important as well as for those using the social networking sites

If you want your website to be interesting you can simply embed widgets to change the website content as it can work different functions. In one way, a widget can work as graphic user interface that does not only gives information but at the same time lets the user interact with the application. By using the widgets into your blog or other social networking site you can have the opportunity to share you blogs with other website.

The first thing that you should do is to look for widgets on different websites. You can find websites that allow users to create their own widget. After creating the content and widget you can embed the code on your website. The widget can be easily created through the widget editor and converter.

All you have to do is to follow the instructions in creating the widget. The website offers the step-by-step guide that facilitates easy creation of widget. As long as you can follow thoroughly the steps you can ensure to create the widget and obtain the code. By clicking the "make a widget" button as well as the "blog" button you can start creating the widget. Make sure to put the blog address on the navigation text box as well as the RSS feed link on the text box.

The next step on making a widget is to find the "blog/feed URL" from the widget directory. After clicking the text box you can then paste the information about the RSS Feed. Then click the "continue" button to proceed with the creation of widget. To make your widget attractive you need to select color through the color selector. Next is to name the widget and save it in order to obtain the embedding code.

Lastly, you can upload the widget in your website. On the other hand, if the widget is not properly created it will not be automatically displayed in your website. That is why you should ensure that you follow carefully the instructions in creating widget for your website.




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