What are the Types of Widgets in Widgetbox?
Template Widgets
Our Template widgets allow you to easily create a customized widget from your own content. With no coding knowledge necessary, you can create a widget in minutes. You customize which fields you’d like to include in your widget and personalize the text. You can also customize the look and feel of the widget by choosing different images, fonts, stylings, and colors.
Examples of Template widgets include:
- Countdown widgets: Create a countdown to any event
- Slideshow widgets: Upload photos and create a slideshow
- Poll widgets: Choose a question and provide different answer choices to create a poll
Blidgets
Blidgets are specialized widgets that display your blog. Blidgets allow you to turn your feed-based content into a personalized widget that you can share with others. Simply enter in your blog or feed-based address (url) and the Blidget template will convert your content into a Blidget. You can further personalize your Blidget by customizing the look and feel with different fonts, stylings, and colors.
Examples of Blidgets include:
- Blog: Turn your blog or feed into a widget
- Twitter: Turn your Twitter updates or favorites into a widget
- Flickr: Turn your Flickr photostream into a widget
- YouTube: Turn your Youtube videos into a widget
Pro vs. Basic Modes
Our Template widgets and Blidgets have two different modes users can choose from—Basic and Pro. The Pro versions of these widgets come with enhanced features that aren’t available with the basic versions including:
- Additional font and styling choices
- Additional text fields
- Multiple tabs of content for Blidgets
- Uploaded headers and background images
- Ability to hide the “Get Widget” button
- No ads
The basic versions of our Template widgets and Blidgets are available to everyone. Pro versions of our Template widgets and Blidgets require a Pro subscription to create. If you are a Pro subscriber, you can choose to create Basic widgets or Pro widgets. Basic widgets will not require you to use any of your account’s Pro credits. Regardless of whether you create Basic or Pro widgets, Pro subscribers should not see any ads on any widgets created.
Developed Widgets
If you are a developer, or familiar with different coding languages and applications, you can develop your own widget from scratch without a template. Create your own widget from HTML, Flash, or JavaScript. You can also import widgets you have previously developed as Google gadgets. Developed widgets do not offer Basic or Pro modes, and can thus be created by anyone regardless of subscription level. However, Pro subscribers have access to these additional features when developing their own widgets:
- Ability to hide the “Get Widget” button
- No ads
- Premium stats including geo-location data
- Priority review on submittals to our gallery
Facebook Fan Page Apps
These widgets allow you to easily create customized apps for your Facebook Fan Pages with no coding knowledge necessary. Many of our Facebook Fan Page apps are similar to Pro template widgets and Blidgets, but the difference is you create these widgets specifically for your Facebook Fan Pages (Template widgets and Blidgets can only be installed to a personal profile on Facebook). Facebook Fan Page Apps are only available to Publisher Pro and Business Pro users.
Examples of Facebook Fan Page Apps include:
- Blog: Instantly put your company’s blog on your Facebook Fan Page
- Twitter: Easily add your Twitter updates to your Facebook Fan Page
- Gallery: Spotlight articles about your company on your Facebook Fan Page
- Poll: Add a poll to your Facebook Fan Page
Widgets in the Widgetbox Gallery
There are over 170,000 widgets in the Widgetbox gallery covering a wide range of topics and interests, including games, celebrity gossip blogs, news headlines, educational quizzes and many many more.
If you are a developer you can add widgets you’ve developed to our Widgetbox gallery to make them available for users to install. Simply submit your widgets for approval, and you’ll generally receive a decision within 2 business days.
If you are a user, you can install any of the widgets in our gallery to a personal website, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or almost any other widget-friendly site. Browse by tag, topic, or featured lists to find fun and useful widgets to install.
