Here’s another cool gidgety-widgety thing that I think it’ll give you goose bumps! I ran across this post by Chris Garret and you know that I just don’t let anyone ‘guest’ on this site. Without further ado, here’s what he has to say.
Sprout is an online service that aims to make it easy for you to create widgets, although they call them Sprouts.
Everything is done in your web browser using Flash. For some reason it wouldn’t work for me using Firefox but worked fine in Safari.
Creating your sprout is very intuitive. All the tools will be familiar to anyone used to graphics packages or development tools. The main draw will be the items found in the Components area, from images through to more dynamic content like Google Charts and RSS feeds.
For my test widget I dragged an RSS component to pull in the latest headlines from chrisg.com – it is all very easy and my widget was complete in under five minutes.
Once you are happy with your widget you can publish it to grab the embed code. It works just like YouTube etc where you are given some HTML to put into your website or blog post.
Make sure you visit Chris’s site – thanks.
MorganLighter
