Today I found a website where we can create user-friendly, attractive and free widgets for our blog or website. The widgets provide an elegant and simple way for blog readers, to navigate and discover awesome content on blogs. Wowzio.com is an internet startup website initiated by three Indians, Ashish Baldua, Manish Baldua and Nimit Maru. It allows you to create easy to use blog widgets. For creating these widgets, just you need to submit your blog’s url to wowzio. From there, wowzio will automatically read your blog regularly (every half hour) to extract interesting pictures and data to display in your widgets. Bloggers have reported that page views on their blog have gone up as much as 30% after installing the wowzio widgets.
There are 5 different types of widgets that you can create on Wowzio.com :
- Gallery Widget – automatically finds all the pictures on your blog and creates a beautiful photo-grid (gallery) from them for you
- Panoramic Slide Widget – automatically finds all the pictures on your blog and creates a beautiful slideshow from them for you
- Live Activity Widget – shows a real-time list of your blog’s latest visitors-where they came from, and what post they are reading
- Tag Cloud Widget – displays the top tags for your blog
- Feed Content Widget – displays the most recent 50 posts from your blog.
Check out the widgets for abhisays.com. Click the below image.
or you can see the samples here also.
what are widgets?
A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets usually but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.
Widgets often take the form of on-screen tools (clocks, event countdowns, auction-tickers, stock market tickers, flight arrival information, daily weather etc).