As my oh-so-relevant title suggests, I have been working with widgets. While widgets are fairly simple to use and even create, they can also be quite a headache.
There are numerous web sites that allow you to create your own widget (some of them allow you to do this for free), but creating an application with which to proliferate your widget can be quite confusing. Sure, many of the sites allow you to post your widget on their gallery, and sure, you can send the HTML code for your widget to anyone you want, but if you want people to be able to find your widget effortlessly, your going to need to develop an application for it.
Facebook is where I started. This wasn’t terribly difficult, but it was confusing. Luckily I found a walk through to help me along. But even after you create an app, you need to have five users or ten fans in order to have facebook host it. Unless facebook is hosting your app, it won’t show up in a search.
I have also been looking into other ways to spread the word about widgets, but none of them have come close to reaching fruition yet.
Anyway, this has been my week so far. Widget this, widget that, widget, widget, widget!
