Today i surfing on internet and to find out the best widget for blogger in google and it is come out widgetbox widget. Personally i've already sign up and play to it, is not to difficult to play it, i think every one can use this widget and the same time install to your blogger, so your can see your blog is more interactive blogger. Okie now i wanna story about installing the widget using widgetbox.

Installing the first widget using Widgetbox

If you do not already have account on Widgetbox.com (or any other widget platform), then create one. In Widgetbox, use the Widget Search box to find the first widget - AddThis. When you search you will get the view below. Click the Details button.

You are taken to the widget configuration screen. This is a common step in configuring each widget. You are asked to choose parameters that this widget expects. With widget box you also see a live preview of what the configured widget will look like. Fill in the URL of your blog and press Get Widget.

You should see the layered popup shown below. This popup asks you where would you like to place the widget. You can choose to place it into a panel (the widget box) or into the post. If you want the widget to be permanently displayed on your blog, you should choose the panel option. Note that the Advanced placement option below lets you place the widget into any web page using JavaScript.

The next screen allows you to choose where you want to install the widget panel. There is a rich set of choices that covers popular blogging platforms and social networks. However, you need to be aware of some caveats. Most importantly, the hosted version of Wordpress is not supported.

The Widgetbox folks told me that there is great integration with TypePad. I wanted to try that, but when I was asked for a credit card upfront, I decided not to proceed. So this left me with the blogging software that I used in my early days of blogging - Blogger. Just for this post, I created the blog called Widget Box 2007, where you can find this post as well as all the widgets that we are covering.

So once I selected Blogger from the list of panel integrations, the screen below appeared. In that screen, Widgetbox suggested that I copy and paste the snippet below into a particular place in my Blogger Template. This is the manual step that needs to be done carefully. It is exactly the place where an API would have saved lost customers and made life a lot easier for platforms like Widgetbox. Alas, we are not their yet - so I went on and manually copied the snippet. It is worth noting that Widgetbox instructions suggest to look at the sample picture - definitely worth looking at, as it shows you exactly where to insert the code snippet.

This is the most error-prone manual step, the rest of the work Widgetbox does automatically. You can customize the look of the panel, including its size and CSS Style. Once you are done, click the Publish changes button to push the changes out. You do not need to republish your blog, the changes will be visible instantly.

Setting up the other widgets

Adding other widgets was simpler, because I did not need to setup the widget box. Next I added the Flickr Slideshow widget. My only complaint about this integration was that it asked me to search for my actual Flickr user id. This is both annoying and a strange thing that Flickr does - and Widgetbox exposes.

I just wanted to use my login, but instead I need to go to a page and fetch some strange looking sequence of letters and numbers that represented my real Flickr id. As the end user, I never want to see anything like that. Once I finally found out what that magic number was, I could not get the preview to work. So I decided to just use the most popular photos instead.

The Google site search widget was a zero pain install. All I had to do was specify what site to search. The del.icio.us widget was also very easy to configure - just specify my real (pun intended) username. And finally the Digg headlines widget did not require any customization at all.

Once all the widgets were added, I noticed there was a way of re-arranging them on the panel, using drag-and-drop. After I tweaked them one last time I hit the Publish button again and went on Blogger to see what it looks like.

So what do your think now it's easy right so had fun

creadit : widgetbox2007