New blog widget for automatically displaying popular posts
You'll see in the sidebar that I've just added a new widget, the Blog Window Widget from AffiliateBrand.com. You can find directions for adding one to your site here. I just put it up only now, but I'm already very impressed with it. It loads quickly and it's highly configurable: you can change a number of attributes at the AffiliateBrands site, and if you want to you can configure further using your own stylesheet. It's just downright elegant, it seems to me. Works right off the bat. TypePad users without Pro accounts needn't be frightened off by it, either: you can add it to your blogs using a TypeList. Easy peasy as they apparently say in the UK.
Tags: AffiliateBrands.com, Blog Window Widget, Gene Kavner, widgets
Posted by Debra Hamel on February 13, 2007 | 
Debra -- thank you for the kind comments about my Blog Window widget. It took quite a bit of time to develop and I'm happy with how it came out. Hope it works for you.
Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions once you've had it on your site for a while.
In the meantime, if your readers wish to go directly to the description page, here it is:
http://affiliatebrand.com/BlogWindow/Description.aspx
Debra -- you should see your widget on that site as well (at least until more people install and configure their own widgets).
Gene Kavner
(PS: Cute daughters!)
Posted by: Gene Kavner | February 13, 2007 at 11:26 PM
Thanks, Gene! I corrected the link in my post.
I see that you already shortened the link to AffiliateBrand.com at the bottom of the widget, which is better for my narrower. Thanks!
Posted by: Debra Hamel | February 14, 2007 at 09:05 AM
Thanks for the tip, especially the useful info that I can actually try this on my blog even though I don't have the pro account. I've just done it, actually, though it hasn't appeared yet. I'm also concerned that the blog will load slowly again, as it did when I had that blidget on there. I'll monitor it.
Posted by: Maxine | February 17, 2007 at 03:44 PM
It's up now! You should do two things, though, both at the configure part of the Affiliate Brands site: make the width a bit smaller and take off nine characters from the left (which will eliminate the PETRONA: ).
Posted by: Debra Hamel | February 17, 2007 at 04:47 PM
Thanks, I was going to do this but then the blog upload went glacial, so I took it off again.
Posted by: Maxine | February 18, 2007 at 04:38 PM
I don't think it was glacial for me, either way. Has it slowed down loading here?
Posted by: Debra Hamel | February 18, 2007 at 04:43 PM
No, but Petrona seems to be badly affected by widgets of all kinds.
Posted by: Maxine | February 19, 2007 at 04:34 PM
Actually, he's having problems over at AffiliateBrand.com. I've turned off mine until he gets it fixed, which I gather should be soon. Maybe this was part of your problem?
Posted by: Debra Hamel | February 19, 2007 at 07:26 PM
Make love, not war!
Posted by: LayeveRex | January 12, 2008 at 04:13 PM