If you look at some of the new features that have appeared on the skinflakes website in recent weeks such as: the search bar, the email alerts sign up box, the adverts, the feed from our social media sites – these are all web widgets (also known as gadgets on blogger).
The great thing about web widgets is they allow you to do clever things on your website or blog without having any knowledge HTML, Javascript or any computer language. All you have to do is go to a third party website follow a list of instructions and you will receive a bit of code needed to do the job.
Web widgets give bloggers the power to create webpages that are more feature rich than many corporate sites. Through the use of widgets the skinflakesblog can now generate income through Google Adsense and the amazon affiliates programme . Our email alert widget allows readers of our website to become subscribers and our friend feed displays all the content from our social networking activities.
How to add a web widget to your blog
Go to a website that will create a web widgits. Widget box, which list hundreds of widgets, is a good place to start alternatively go to a specific site such as Google Adsense to create an advertising widget or feedburner to create an email alerts subscription box. Blogger and wordpress also have many widgets you use to improve your blog.
Many widgets can be created in a few minutes by selecting the designs you prefer. Most websites give two options: you can copy the code that when pasted into your blog or website will display your widgit or click on a button to that will add the widget directly to your layout page in blogger or wordpress.
The pasting code route is fairly simple in blogger. Click on layout tab and then the “add a gadget” bar. This will give you an range of custom built widgets you an add to your blog. If you select the option for HTML/Javascript you can paste your code, remembering to click on the save button, and the widget is now on your site.
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