The Blog Fiction Widget is a widget that is meant to help promote blog fiction and bring together the blog fiction community. The widget lists the most recent posts from blog fiction sites. The widget allows a blogger to customize how many posts it lists, it's width, background color, foreground color, and 'family' option. The widget has been tested and verified to work with the firefox webbrowser versions 2 and 3 as well as internet explorer 6 and 7.
If you would like to use the widget for you site, you may take the code and use it at any time. The code is listed in the blog fiction forum (here). It includes a tutorial on how to customize the widget.
If you run a blog fiction site and want your blog fiction to be included in the widget that everyone gets, you have to host the widget on your blog fiction as well. It must be in the sidebar or other prominated spot on your blog to count-no burying it in the footer. Note that your site must be a blog fiction to be included in the widget feed. (See this post for the definition used to determine if your site is a blog fiction)
Once you have the code on your site, send an email to widgetlist (at) blogfiction (dot) org with the subject line "Blog Fiction Widget" and the url to your website in the body. Once it's verified that your site is Blog Fiction it will be added to the feed. After that your site will get the added exposure on all the other blog fiction sites that host the widget. If you run into any trouble with the widget go to the forums for technical support.
As an aside, this blog has 2 versions of the blog fiction widget. It has the version that everybody has at the top. It also has a "full" version that lists all blog fiction sites whether or not they have the widget on their site.
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2 comments:
Right, yes - I've finally put it on the site and it's very good!
Addy
Wilf,
I've added your feed to the shared widget. It'll be nice to have another "familyfriendly" blog included. You should see your posts show up the next time you post something.
As an aside, if you'd like the widget to blend in a little better you can change the color scheme. You can make the backgroundColor = '556655' to match your sidebar's background. Also, you can make the textColor = 'ffffff' to match your sidebar links. This is only a suggestion.
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