Widgets

Your web site in mini form that people can share on their social networks, blog, website and more!  Also we have a wide range of tools that let’s us create interactive ads to grab attention of even your most passive reader.

A web widget (commonly referred to simply as a ‘widget’) is a small program that you can easily put on your website, blog, or personalized start page. A common example of a widget that most of us run across almost every day are those Google advertisements. These ads are produced by placing a small piece of code on the web page. The hard part — choosing an advertisement that matches the content and displaying that ad — is done by Google.

But web widgets aren’t limited to advertisements. A widget can be anything from a voting poll to a weather forecast to a list of current headlines to a crossword puzzle. You can utilize them in your blog to provide an interactive experience for your readers, or you can place them on your personalized start page to get at information you want to see on a regular basis.

How Can I Use a Web Widget?

If you read blogs, you have probably run across a lot of widgets without even knowing it. Have you ever seen a “bookmark this with del.icio.us” link under a blog entry? That’s a web widget. Or, you might have seen a “Digg it” button. That’s another web widget.

If you write on your own blog, web widgets can be used to provide additional functionality. For example, Feedburner is a website that allows people to sign up for your RSS feed. They provide a widget that you can put on your blog to help people sign up. YouTube also provides a widget, allowing you to make a playlist of your favorite videos. And these are just two among many widgets that can be used in conjunction with your blog.

But widgets aren’t just for personal use. Businesses also use widgets to enhance their websites. Widgets can be used to track visitors to the website and provide information on how the visitor found the website. They can also be used to provide syndicated content, such as relevant content from the Associated Press, or information like stock quotes.

Here is what Wikipedia says:

In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a window or a text box. The defining characteristic of a widget is to provide a single interaction point for the direct manipulation of a given kind of data. In other words, widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data.