How to embed widgets to make your website more functional

What's a widget? These handy tools can improve the functionality and usability of your website. Here's how to use them to your advantage.

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How to embed widgets to make your website more functional

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Transcript: Hey guys on to historian will teach you how to embed Twitter on to your website so let's just go right into your Twitter and right here you guys should look for your handle it's underneath your name alright so just log into your Twitter you guys will see that let's just copy that over going to this website it's called publish twitter.com and yes it's made by Twitter so once you guys go into there just copy and paste that into here hit the arrow down here below you guys have these two options so what we're gonna do today is embed our timeline we're not gonna add a Twitter button you guys can do that here as well however what we want to do is embed timeline so let's just do that and right now you guys have this code so you're ready generated code for you here's my Twitter timeline and that would be automatically updated on my website however if you guys want to customize this just a little bit more right here we have that option so I can set this up to our dark theme alright default link color sure you guys can keep... See more →

Transcript: Hey designers this is Karthik from design school for WordPress beginners the place where I teach you how to design build and customize your websites if they are new here considered subscribing let's get into the video this video is a part of playlist called elemental Basics in which we talk about every widget every feature and every option in elemental so if you're new to elemental make sure you check the playlist called elemental basics on the channel without any further ado let's get into the video in this video I want to talk about HTML widget in elemental it's one of the most powerful and underrated widgets in Elementor it's so powerful that you can build anything that you can imagine if you know how to code let me show you with few simple examples let me drag my HTML widget onto my template and it's a plain blank widget so what exactly does HTML widget allow you to do it will allow you to add HTML CSS JavaScript and even short codes to the widget it can interpret all of them with proper tags so let's go ahead and see that so let me add some basic... See more →

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  • "As a UI/UX designer, it’s your job to create delightful experiences for users."
  • "Handsome’s website has a black and white, retro-vintage theme which is accompanied by a selection of charming micro-interactions that delight visitors as they explore."
  • "Each project is displayed within the horizontal scrolling menu, a ‘must-see’ feature of this site."
  • "Daesk features a parallax scrolling site with vibrant acid colors and gorgeous blended background vectors."
  • "The website features a scroll-to-make experience, which takes visitors on an interactive journey through cooking pasta with Tillamook."
  • "The one pager features a fun interactive color scheme slider with links to the host’s website, previous conferences, and contact information."
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Transcript: With our HTML widget you can add any outside HTML code to your website adding code is easy right now we will go over how to add a poll survey to your page via the HTML widget in the editor click add widgets HTML now choose the blank option place the widget on your page and resize where necessary now you need to grab the code from an external source for example I want to add in my pull to my page go ahead and copy your HTML code now go back to the editor click on the HTML widget and click settings here's where you can paste the code in click OK and you are set to view this widget you need to go to your live site you will not be able to see this in preview and that's it you can see your HTML widget here go ahead and give it a try on your own remember if you have any problems or questions on any part of HTML please visit our Help Center here you... See more →

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  • "There are few other API options like like `clean:true` in case there was a default loading animation provided by the host CMS and you want to clear it before the widgets mounts: The host CMS page developers will certainly love to be able to pass down some custom data that are relevant to that specific page, in preact-habitat all you need to do is add a script tag of type text/props with a valid JSON in it, just like the following: The first step of implementing this feature from scratch is getting the text/props script’s content and parse the JSON to JS object What makes passing the JS Object pretty easy is Preact’s pragma h function that accepts 2 parameters, first one is the function or ES6 Class component we want to render and the 2nd one is you might have guessed, the props!."
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Key quotes:

  • "Use our tips and tricks to attract new customers and increase user interactions on your website."
  • "Focus on improving the way people interact with your website and you’ll be able to deliver a better user experience."
  • "User interaction on your website provides you with the opportunity to collect data about your customers and potential new customers."
  • "In addition to making your website more engaging, widgets can help lead visitors to new sections of your site."
  • "Always aspire towards attracting new customers, increasing user interactions on your website or improving your business."
  • "The data can help you improve your website visitors’ user experience so you can make better business decisions."
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Transcript: Hi guys, Today we'll be seeinghow you can Add A Contact Form, to your wordpress website So let's say you have a website and you want to give yourvisitors, a way to contact you You can do that byadding a contact form So today, We're going to create acontact form like this So once you create this form Anyone who is visiting yoursite will be able to fill-up this form and when they click 'submit' you'll get an email withthe message they have sent So this will give yourvisitors a way to reach you, when they need help or when theyhave something to share. Okay! So I'm Subhang fromwebsitelearners.com and let's createour contact form! We're going to createthe form in 3 steps The first step is to install a plugin inwordpress which will help us create the form Okay so to install the plugin Let's go to our dashboard And then go to 'Plugins' and click 'Add New' Now search for aplugin called 'Ninja Forms' And you'll get this plugin So let's click Install and activate Okay, so the pluginhas been installed And now you'll see this newbutton called 'ninja forms' Once, we install the plugin, we can now go... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "If these ideas resonate with you, we hope you’ll check out Glitch and see how we can bring these abilities back to the web.] For the first few years of the web, the fundamental way that people learned to build web pages was by using the “View Source” feature in their web browser."
  • "It’s no surprise, then, that the ability to create web pages was reserved for Netscape Gold, the paid version of that first broadly consumer-oriented web browser."
  • "But these days, there are very few tools you could just use on your computer (or your tablet, or your phone) to create a web page or web site from scratch."
  • "There’s no reason that this can’t be done today, especially since the way we build web pages in the modern era often involves generating just partial pages or only sending along the data that’s updated on a particular site."
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  • "That is “none of your business”! Or “Good for your business”."
  • "Either way, if having a good understanding on how to design, code or refactor, deploy and maintain a JavaScript SDK is your objective, please help yourself and read-on! I put together this write up from frustration for not finding the right documentation on why and how to design and deploy a widget, an extension to my service’s offerings."
  • "You can checkout on other blog posts in The Deep Dive series."
  • "— Widget delivered services examples that can be brought to your attention include, but not limited to — Here is the list of most commonly asked questions about JavaScript widgets: — Without which came first, UX or UI, let’s focus on usability."
  • "That will include the best time to add the widget on a web page, when to trigger it, how the UI can be optimized to better server customers needs."
  • "Jokes aside, there are libraries that can allow to build the widget a little faster, with a small footprint."
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Transcript: In this video we're going to be adding a Facebook widget to our WordPress website it's basically just a little thing that shows off your page and your number likes and people can click buttons and whatnot in fact looks just like this there you go it's one of those and I will show you how you can add that to your WordPress site in this video so let's get started hello is Alex here from WP Eagle thanks for dropping by so as I said in this video we're going to be adding a Facebook widget to our WordPress website you can base the add-on these anywhere you can put them inside a page you can put them in a sidebar and a footer whatever you like really wherever you can paste and some code that's fine so anyway I'm going to take you through it step-by-step so let's get on a computer and get going okay so I'm over on the website I'm going to be adding the Facebook page widget to it's this particular page in fact the about us I just want to add it over here so it's quite a straightforward process what we're going... See more →

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