Monday, August 20, 2007
Top 10 Web Widgets for your blog
Top 10 MUST HAVE Web Widgets for your online page.
(sorted alphabetically)
1. Bookmark This - http://Addthis.com
2. Email Subscription - Widget http://Feedburner.com
3. Picture Badge - http://flickr.com/badge.gne
4. Recent Visitor - http://MyBlogLog.com
5. Search Blog - http://search.msn.com/siteowner
6. Snapshot widget - http://Snap.com
7. Twitter Update - http://Twitter.com
8. Playlist Video Widget - http://Youtube.com
9. Web Poll Widget - http://PollDaddy.com
10. What I am Listening - http://iLike.com
1. Bookmark This
- http://Addthis.com
2. Email Subscription
- http://Feedburner.com
3. Picture Badge
- http://flickr.com/badge.gne
4. Recent Visitor
- http://MyBlogLog.com
5. Search Blog
- http://search.msn.com/siteowner
6. Snapshot widget
- http://Snap.com
7. Twitter Update
- http://Twitter.com
8. Video Playlist Widget
- Login to http://Youtube.com and then goto http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists to select the embed codefor the playlist
9. Web Poll Widget
- http://PollDaddy.com
10. What I am Listening
- http://iLike.com
Add your favorite here ...
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Creating a Widget using Microsoft SilverLight and Popfly.Net
Video: PopFly 30 Second
Video: PopFly 3 Minute
Video: Popfly in 15 Minutes
Saturday, August 11, 2007
What is a Web Widget ?
A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.
A widget is available in a ready-to-use formats and are visually attractive and customizable by the user. It takes the form of pictures, graphs, statistics, summary, or just numbers.
Its a snippet of HTML code which is available from the the website which hosts the widget. you can "copy" that code and "embed" in your web page.
Overview of a Web Widget
The snippet of code which makes a Widget can be a JavaScript code, Adobe Flash plugin, code for embedding Windows Media player or even SilverLight plugin, and is hosted in the website which provides the Widget.
Labels: favorite, web widgets