Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: June 22, 2008
Tags : sprout builder
There are a growing number of online widget makers now available, but the one service I keep going back to is Sprout Builder. It’s easy to use but still quite powerful and flexible in what it offers.
In the above video I show how you can build your own Sprout Builder widget for your blog in around 5 minutes, although I take 10 minutes to explain it 
An example of a Sprout Builder widget can be seen here with the QMeme widget in the right hand sidebar.
Jun 22, 2008
the issue with the qmeme widget is that if you are using ie7, and click a link, the yellow popup bar appears and you never make it to the destination – might be costing you visitors.
Jun 22, 2008
ok, should be working now in IE7….grrrrr
Jul 21, 2008
Duncan, I am glad that you were able to show off how easy it is to create a blog widget using our builder. We hope to make it as easy as possible to create multimedia content. Keep on building!
Jul 21, 2008
Nice video Duncan.
Just a few features you missed that would have helped in this making this widget.
1) Instead of drawing a rectangle, you can change the background color on the bottom toolbar. (You can also pick colors from anywhere in the builder (eyedropper) if you are trying to create a nice color scheme)
2) When you rotated the box slightly, you can always “undo” that change.
3) Lastly, when you preview your widget, you can change the background of the preview page by clicking on the area outside the widget.
Hope this helps in your future widget creation!
Steve
Intern at Sprout
Jul 21, 2008
Thx Steve