A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information, extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games. It is available in a ready-to-use formats and are visually attractive and customizable by the user. It takes the form of pictures, graphs, statistics, summary, or just numbers. It's a snippet of HTML code which is available from the the website which hosts the widget. You can "copy" that code and "embed" in your web page. The snippet of code which makes a Widget can be a JavScript code, Adobe Flash plugin, code for embedding Windows Media player or even SilverLight plugin, and is hosted in the website which provides the Widget.
And because we want to have a connection with the reader we made this widget. With a simple copy-paste can integrate the code of widget on your site increasing the inter-activity.
"Your News Open Source" has a "live" widget that gives the title of the most important news. Just grab the headline animator you like and you'll stay tuned with "Your News Open Source"!
Watch the video to understand better the "widget" concept.
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