The new widgets came with a bunch of pre-defined styles—of varying quality. But they also have sharing built in, so members can come up with better ones, and let people know about them.
So, why not a contest?
- Submit your widgets to this Talk thread (http://www.librarything.com/topic/61668)
- Widgets can be of any type—as simple, complex, staid or way-out as you like. You can use your own CSS or JavaScript, but you certainly don’t have to.
- You can submit up to five widgets, but post only one message. Edit if you need to.
- If you want, share where you put the widget, or where you plan to.
- Go ahead and name your widgets, comment on what you were trying to do.
- Post the “Share with other LibraryThing members” link (e.g., this). Posting the script won’t work.
The Reward.
- Contest runs until April 20 at 5pm EST
- We’ll pick a bunch of widgets to add to the default set
- Five members win a membership (for themselves or others), as well as a CueCat barcode scanner or t-shirt
- Ten more members get a CueCat or t-shirt
- First twenty-five members who post get a LibraryThing laptop/car sticker, a sort of real-world widget
Let’s see what you can do!
UPDATE: Luke added a feature to the “share with other LT member” that shows it with *their* books first. You can change it to work with yours instead. This only applies to URLs made now, so edit old ones?
Image:
Example:
http://www.librarything.com/widget.php?shareID=w49d65f9e510f6&sharefrom=LibraryThingLuke
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