Using Widgets
You can add capabilities to a Web page by making use of widgets — elements on the page that accept input and/or display output. For example, you can add a weather widget to your page that displays updated weather information for specified locations. Or you can add a newsfeed to your page. You can incorporate a virtual sticky note or notepad that makes it easy to jot notes. Or you can include a virtual calculator. Etc.
As an example you can see several widgets in use in the righthand column of Stephen Kirkwood's "The Seagull has Landed" blog. Kirkwood has a site meter, an analog clock displaying the time in his hometown of Bristol, England, a map showing the locations around the world of visitors to the blog, and a bar showing the blog's "Technorati" rank.
A good list of widgets is provided by Widgetbox. Instructions for using Widgetbox widgets are here.
Google has compiled a list of widgets here. For a particular widget you'd like to use, click on the "Add to your webpage" button below the widget. This takes you to a screen that will supply the code you'll need to incorporate into the HTML code for your Web page.
Labels: Web 2.0
posted by Karen Nelson @ 11:06 PM
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