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Creating
Widgets for
Your Websites and Blogs
By
Doran Roggio (c) 2007 |
With
a widget you can place the current information from your blogs and
or/websites on other webpages, and your personal pages on social networks
like myspace, ning.com and your private clubs. This is not only fun and
informative, but an excellent promotional tool.
What is a widget? According to Wikipedia a "web widget is anything
that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds
some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are third
party originated... Widgets are also known as modules, snippets, and
plug-ins. Widgets can be written in HTML, but also in javascrÃpt, flash
and other scripting languages..."
