RapidWeaver FAQ - Widgets
What is a Widget? How do they work? Where do I find Widgets?
Those links are called anchors.
CHAPTER 1: What is a Widget?
CHAPTER 2: How do they work?
CHAPTER 3: How do I add a Widget?
CHAPTER 4: Where can I find Widgets (Sources)?
CHAPTER 1: What is a Widget?
A web widget is a portable chunk (a snippet) of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse thus the idea of creating something new using something that already exists.
CHAPTER 2: How do they work?
You usually insert a piece of code into your pages that retrieves informations from a third party supplier.
CHAPTER 3: How do I add a Widget?
Let's have an example...
Looking through the widgets on Springwidgets where one can find a widget for almost everything he’s looking for a friend of mine found the following widget which is really too cool: Lightbulb
1. Click on "options" you will see a popup window where you select to get the HTML code
2. Copy the code
3. Go to RapidWeaver. On the page where you want to embed the widget paste the code where you want it to show up.
4. Once you added the code to RapidWeaver select it all and go to “< >” (Apply HTML markup) and choose “Code”.
5. You’re done. You will now see the widget appearing in Preview.
It's really easy to integrate widgets into RapidWeaver and it's like "embedding a whole new world" into RW. They are really useful. No matter what you use to get/build the widget. You will find the code somewhere to paste into the page.
CHAPTER 4: Where can I find Widgets (Sources)?
There are different widgets sources on the web. Here you will find some of them. If you know more please add a comment at the end of this page.
Springwidgets
Widgetbox
Bravenet free widgets and Bravenet free webtools
NeoWORX
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