Posts Tagged With: widgets
· July 30, 2008 at 5:49 am · Online Tools
Tags: crowd sound, feedback, opinions, suggestions, tools, votes, web-dev, widgets
Always looking for a better way to get the thoughts of the crowd, I ran across crowd sound. What is this web site all about? It is less of a web site and more of a tool to help you uniquely gather ideas and suggestions from your followers.
We all like feedback right? Here is how crowd sound works. All you do is sign up for your free account, and then login. Once you do, you can embed the widget into your web site. Just copy and paste some simple JavaScript into your own design.
Now with the web site widget, you can add some entries. and then have other visitors vote up the idea or vote down the idea. So this separates things into the people who want to give you good suggestions and the people who just like to vote for things. You can also via the widget browse through the most recent or the most popular.
I think crowd sound is delivering a very unique way of looking at feedback gathering from your base. Those could be customers, they could be readers. The thing that is important is that you get their views to make your content better.
· May 26, 2008 at 5:44 am · Web Development
Tags: columns, customize, design, themes, widgets, WordPress
Yesterday I spend a little time playing around with my WordPress theme here, looking at adding widgets to themes that didn’t come “pre-designed” with them in mind. Thankfully for people like me Automattic has a great tutorial on how to get this done. Along with adding a few more features, support for gravatars and a third column I promise this version of the layout has 10% more awesomeness.
· April 30, 2007 at 7:01 am · Personal
Tags: animated, graphics, headline, links, subscribe, tracking, widgets
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· April 20, 2007 at 10:52 am · Online Tools, Popular Posts
Tags: customize, Firefox, Google, hacks, Mozilla, sidebar, tips, widgets
I like using Google’s Notebook feature but the extension they give you is a little lacking. I think it is too small and doesn’t allow me to open and shut it very quickly. What’s the solution? Well I took the Google personalized homepage widget for Google Notebook and added it to the sidebar of Firefox.
This is much like the “
Add Google Talk to the Firefox Sidebar” trick that was so popular a few weeks back.
- Create a new bookmark (right-click and select “Bookmark this link…”) for this address:
http://www.google.com/notebook/ig?hl=__MSG_locale__
- Right-click on that bookmark and select “Properties”.
- Check the box that says, “Load this bookmark in sidebar” and you are good to go! It isn’t exactly rocket science so everybody should be able to enjoy this one.
Now you have a full note taking application to work with in your sidebar and it beats that tiny default extension Google provides you any day of the week.
· August 2, 2006 at 6:27 pm · Online Tools
Tags: beta, blogs, toys, Widgetbox, widgets
I just got accepted into the Widgetbox beta, and I have to say from what I have seen thus far, it is pretty slick. It makes it painless to add a number of different widgets to your blog. The only area where it has a problem is the number of widgets available. I would like to use a few, but none of the ones they have really tickle my fancy. I’m sure that will be a problem solved over time though.
