Archive for the ‘Photos’ category

« Older Entries

All About Jazz–15 Jazz widgets

December 6th, 2009

aajazz_logo
AllAboutJazz.com appears to be the de facto source for all news about Jazz music.

With Jazz news, CD reviews, new album release information, artist interviews, concert information, photos and more, you will be able to find just about anything Jazz related.

All About Jazz has created and released 15 different widgets related to Jazz music. All widgets are embeddable in your websites to share with your readers.

aajazz1

This is an example of “The Daily Download” widget that allows your readers to view a new artist, see album information and download a single Jazz .mp3 everyday.

Other widgets include:
 (These widgets are JavaScript.) visit AllAboutJazz.com/widgets

    Articles
    Birthdays
    CD Reviews
    Contest Giveaways
    Interviews
    Jazz Video Guy Presents
    Listening Party / Album Stream
    Musician of the Day
    News
    Photo of the Day
    Jazz Session Podcasts
    Quote of the Day
    This Day in Jazz History
    Upcoming Releases

Some widget details:
Most of the widgets are a simple “copy and paste” of some code to place the widget into your site. The “get code” link associated with the “MP3 Download of the Day” widget includes a well rounded tutorial on how to customize the size and appearance of your widget using some basic CSS. It does not explain the intricacies of CSS. For that they suggest you search the Internet for CSS related information.
Almost all of these widgets contain added CSS that you can easily edit to alter the appearance of the widget to conform to your website scheme.

These widgets are a great addition to any Jazz music related blog or website. They are FREE to use and FREE to enjoy.

AllAboutJazz.com/widgets

Share|

No comments »

Posted in Music, Photos, Reviews, Widgets

Tags:

Holiday Countdown Widget from Gill’s Cruise

November 12th, 2009

gillscruise_logo
Here is a cool Travel & Vacation widget that lets you quickly and easily create an embeddable representation of your impending getaway. Simply input your destination, the dates you will be travelling, pick a color (there are only two?) and copy and paste the resulting code to your website or blog.

excerpt from: gillscruise.com

Proudly display to your visitors where and when you are going on your next holiday, business trip or vacation. This highly advanced web widget, which you can embed on your blog or website will geo locate any place on earth and pull some of the best pictures from Google Maps and Panoramio. All sleekly animated in a slide show style.

The remaining days to you holiday are neatly displayed. When your holiday starts widget will display that you are currently on holiday, and when you return it will display that you have visited this place.

This way you can let your visitors know that you are not going to post on your blog for example during this time, and will be notified when you are back. This gives you are chance to recommend your favourite destination, and can build a social following for your favourite place on earth. We hope you enjoy what we have built, and let us know in comments on our blog if you have any suggestions for improvements.

Random photo from Panoramio. Owner copyright.
Powered by Gill’s Cruises Get cruise & holiday countdown

Observations:
1. I would like to see the widget be able to search more databases for a wider variety of images. I tried Sydney and Berlin with no image results. London works, obviously Tokyo works and New York is displayed on the widget creation page.

2. Only having two available colors for the widget border will be a deal killer for some. I realize “Carbon” (light gray/white) will work with most any color scheme. But most people are used to being able to pick their exact color for a widget.

3. JavaScript has pros and cons. It is an excellent widget building platform but is still viewed as unacceptable by some (Wordpress.com, MySpace etc.) Perhaps a Flash version as well? Maybe consider porting this widget to Widgetbox, Clearspring etc.

4. There are no registration requirements and the widget is extremely simple to set up. These two factors alone are very important. Excellent job!

Get your Holiday Countdown Widget from gillscruise.com/widget

Share|

No comments »

Posted in Badges, Photos, Widgets

Tags:

Shutterfly.com scrapbook style photo album widget

November 11th, 2009

shutterfly_logo
Shutterfly.com is a photosharing/scrapbooking paradise. Their unique “photobook” creation tools allow you to create some seriously cool scrapbook style, embeddable photo albums.

You can choose to have colorful backgrounds or just cover entire pages with photos. Some templates even allow for nesting smaller photos within larger photos. Did I mention that you can also create “share sites” where your friends and family can download photos. Also available is the ability to purchase gifts with photos printed directly on them. Mugs, ornaments, mousepads, even large artist style canvas wall hangings. There are actually too many to mention here. Check out “Photo Gifts”

There are seemingly endless options for creating your Scrapbook photobook.

Here is an actual widget from a great Shutterfly article at blog.susanfinch.com

Click here to view this photo book larger

The service is FREE and only requires registering your account.

Visit shutterfly.com
Visit the shutterfly.com/free photo sharing page.

Share|

No comments »

Posted in Photos, Widgets

Tags:

Closer.it : Single Photo Zoomable Widgets

October 1st, 2009

tmpE5

Photo Zooming is a featured we see more and more with tech like seadragon. But there are not many solutions around it to showcase single photos. the only case i can think of from past posts is Phlook.

Closr.it is also a flash based solution to showcase single photos into widgets that deliver them that was as a matter of protection, better identification and of course in this case Photo Zooming.

                    

Closr.it gives you this very simple widget you can put in your blog to showcase your hi-res photos and let visitors be able to check them out in detail within the widget. if you get to like it you can also share it instantly thanks to Spread Sharing module by Clearspring.

tmpE6

Closr.it

Share|

No comments »

Posted in Photos, Tools, Widgets

Tags:

Fotopedia Slideshow widget

September 28th, 2009

Fotopedia.com is a photo hosting service with a downloadable app (Windows & Mac) that allows you to create a customizable slideshow widget that you can embed into your blog or website.

evie_fotopedia_widget

Excerpt from freshtilledsoil.com

How to Get Started

1. Sign-up at Fotopedia.com
2. Download the application, Windows or Mac.
3. Create a gallery. On a mac this process was simple, all I had to do was drag and drop my photos from iPhoto.
4. Use the Actions menu to create a new Widget. You’ll be redirected to Fotopedia.com where you can customize your options.
5. Copy and paste the HTML snippet provided to your website and your done.

Rumor is that you can hook your flickr account to fotopedia and display your flickr sets in the fotopedia widget as well.

I love integration!

Share|

No comments »

Posted in Photos

Tags: