Showing posts with label gadgets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gadgets. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Friday, February 20, 2009
Widgets to increase exposure
In the ongoing interest of growing the forum's exposure, I have been making widgets.
Types of Widgets:
There are two types of widgets I have been making. Rss feed widgets and HTLM/Page widgets. Rss widgets require an rss feed while web page widgets require HTML output hosted somewhere. For both, the widgets hosts I have used require a url to a valid rss page or html page. The rss option may be more limiting as far as the content that is displayed by the widget; however, for rss there are flash based rss feed widgets that are not only slicker looking than the wrappers for HTML, but also are more compatible. For example, a flash rss feed widget can be placed on a myspace or facebook profile. I have now created a few ASP pages that output valid rss xml. Before I had any rss, I tried a few websites that convert website content into rss format. This was better than nothing but labor intensive and the much less flexible than creating rss from scratch.
Types of Widgets:
There are two types of widgets I have been making. Rss feed widgets and HTLM/Page widgets. Rss widgets require an rss feed while web page widgets require HTML output hosted somewhere. For both, the widgets hosts I have used require a url to a valid rss page or html page. The rss option may be more limiting as far as the content that is displayed by the widget; however, for rss there are flash based rss feed widgets that are not only slicker looking than the wrappers for HTML, but also are more compatible. For example, a flash rss feed widget can be placed on a myspace or facebook profile. I have now created a few ASP pages that output valid rss xml. Before I had any rss, I tried a few websites that convert website content into rss format. This was better than nothing but labor intensive and the much less flexible than creating rss from scratch.
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