Widgets

ThePornIdentity · 04-22-2008, 10:36 AM

Hi all,

Anyone done any work with desktop widgets?

Done a search but only found people talking about wordpress widgets.

Looking into using them more with my marketing, any "good" tutorials around that you might know of? Yahoo's one was a little umm... technical.

Muchas Gracias!

Meat · 04-23-2008, 05:16 AM

whats a widget lol

RageCash-Ben · 04-23-2008, 05:52 AM

porn widgets ?

plz tell us more

redglow · 04-23-2008, 05:58 AM

The onely one I've heard about is Deep Sabrina's widget. (shows when she's online, how long til her next live show, pic of the day...)
Haven't seen any tuts about how to make one though..

Edit: in Sabrina's thread about her new gadget/whidget thingie you can also find how-to-make-one link....

Mihx · 04-23-2008, 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meat

whats a widget lol

Neat (or potentially neat) little thingies running on your desktop

.

These are Vista Gadgets, but it's the same thing.

I've been through large parts of the libraries of both Vista Gadgets and Yahoo Widgets, and as a rough estimate I would say that around 98 out of a hundred are more or less useless garbage I really have a hard time seeing why anyone would choose to download and "use".
Though I guess some idiot always will (I almost went for a GTA4 release date countdown timer the other day - then I realized I probably don't really need it to tell me when it's Tuesday

).

MountainGoat · 04-23-2008, 06:11 AM

First go and grab a copy of Amnesty Generator from amnestywidgets.com

Then you insert whatever you want in to the HTML code (I used a server hosted picture of the day from an affiliate programme), then you add your details, and what the script is called, with width and height. Then you save it, and install to desk top.

Then allow your firewall permissions for the widget to access the net.

RageCash-Ben · 04-23-2008, 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MountainGoat

First go and grab a copy of Amnesty Generator from amnestywidgets.com

Then you insert whatever you want in to the HTML code (I used a server hosted picture of the day from an affiliate programme), then you add your details, and what the script is called, with width and height. Then you save it, and install to desk top.

Then allow your firewall permissions for the widget to access the net.

Going to check that out. Thanks Goat.

MountainGoat · 04-23-2008, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben

Going to check that out. Thanks Goat.

No problems. If anyone would be interested, I have an hour or so free this afternoon, where I could have a look at putting one a widget together and drop some instructions on here.

ScreaM · 04-23-2008, 07:40 AM

I only know of Yahoo widgets.

MountainGoat · 04-23-2008, 08:22 AM

How to create a ‘basic’ widget for your site.

The widget is based on a picture of the day type image.

So, here we go (with thanks to SabrinaDeep for the POTD script that I have modified for this purpose).

1. Download Amnesty Generator from here.
2. Prepare your server. Create a folder in the server, for the thumbnails, and then select the images that you want to create the thumbnails. In testing, I found that if you stuck to a horizontal or vertical format, then this would work better… So, say you were using a monthly rotation, use all vertical.
3. Resize all your images to the same size. (VERY IMPORTANT LATER ON!) And not too big, say 200px on the long side, because you do not want to swamp the user’s widget bar.
4. Open up notepad, and then write a script like this one I have added below (from SabrinaDeep’s script earlier on last week!)

PHP Code:


			
<?php
$today=date('d'); 
?>

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>

<body>
<img src="http:/SERVERNAMEHERE/WIDGET1/image/<? print $today ?>.jpg" width="WIDTH" height="HEIGHT"></a>
</body>
</html>

5. Once you have saved this, after making the adjustments necessary to work, then upload this, and the images to the server. Make sure that your image script is in an easy to remember place (I saved to the root folder during testing, and it worked fine)
6. Create a new document in your notepad/html editor, and then add

PHP Code:


			
<i frame src="http://YOURSERVERNAME/SCRIPT.php" height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"></i frame>

Where the height and the width correspond to the height/width of your images. (just remove the spaces in "I"frame, cos the board software blocks them!)
7. Open up Amnesty generator, and in the HTML code field, place the command above in there.
8. In the name and identifier, write whatever you want to call it, and with the width and height used above.
9. Save.
10. Install or upload to the server, for others to download and install.

[Edit In the "I"frame code, there is, or may be some charecters before the first <, just remove these, because I think it is the way the software on the board renders the lines in the code.]

ThePornIdentity · 04-23-2008, 02:59 PM

Hi guys, wow, seems alot happened while I was away lol

I'm glad it's sparked a little interested in widgets too, I think it's a highly underused tool at the moment for our area.

Thanks for that little tut there Goat, much appreciated mate!

If I have any questions I'll be sure to pop you a message.

Hope you know what we talkign about now Meat

lol

Auf Mauf · 04-23-2008, 08:42 PM

Hm that sound good, widgets are so popular now and maybe porn widget will be a good option for making money

MountainGoat · 04-24-2008, 03:03 AM

As I detailed yesterday, about building a widget in Netpond, I won’t go over the basics again, unless you are unsure about something, if you are just post it here, and I will try and answer the questions! (Hey, I have only been looking in to this, a little under 24 hours!)

To help you along, a little, I have built a widget resource pack, which, surprise, surprise, is for the promo of my own site! Download it here. It is just over 4mb in size, because I have included the images, to give an idea of the overview.

It is very simple to get everything working right, but I will point out that the widget functionality does not support PHP as a native standard, I am unsure if they support Javascript either, for that matter, because I have not been able to have a look in the code to which they are built. Basically, they are static web displays. As my tutorial went yesterday, I packaged all the functionality up and shipped that off to a server, and then in the code for the widget packaged it in an “I”frame. This is so you do not lose the PHP or if you decide on a bigger and better, the Javascript/flash/whatever functionality.

Ok, to modify the resource pack, which I have built last night (twenty minutes, because of a thunderstorm which took out the power!) I will detail below how to modify it for your own promo purposes.

1. Decompress the widgettutorial.zip to somewhere memorable in your machine.
2. Open the “Widget.html” file in any editing package of your choice.
3. Add your own background, by cutting an image to the dimensions of 180x250px. Then save this in to the “widgimg” folder, in whatever file format you should desire.
4. Find the entry that says:

PHP Code:


			
#frame {text-align: center; height: 250px; width: 180px; clear: both; background-image: url(http://127.0.0.1/widgimg/back.png);     background-color: #000000; }

and change the server address to whatever your website is, and the ‘back.png’ to whatever your image file name is. Remember, this is going to be running on the computer of the user, so this is important that you get this right to start with! Also remember to make the background graphic to the size of the #frame div tag, or larger, so it doesn’t look like a s*** in a bucket.
5. Now, next find the entry of “I”frame, and which should look like this, with the spaces removed in the I word...

PHP Code:


			
<I frame src="http://127.0.0.1/widg.php" height="210" width="143" scrolling="No" border="0"></I frame>

and replace the server address with whatever your website is called.
6. Now, find the link below this, to navigate to the site of your choice, but remember to put in your affiliate ID in to this link!!! (The reason for this is the visitor may download the widget, without directly becoming a member, and I would hate you to lose out on the hard work you have put in to building this box of tricks, when they finally do!) The link is the bit that looks like

PHP Code:


			
<a href="http://www.nenablue.com" target="_blank">Visit Nena Blue</a>

Make sure you do not adjust the target because if not, the website will attempt to open in the widget, itself; and the user will bin the widget in a heartbeat.
7. Adjust the title of the website in the same line, so instead of “Visit Nena Blue” it will become “Visit This Site, or Whatever!”
8. Open up Amnesty Generator, which you should have snagged yesterday, if you were following the preceding tutorial, and build the “Widget.html” file that you should still have open in your editor of choice, into a widget. Give it a memorable name, and the size of 180x250. This is a good size to be visible, but not swamp the user’s widget bar, or desktop.
9. Open up Widg.php, and change the line that says:

PHP Code:


			
http://127.0.0.1/widgimg/<? print $today ?>.jpg

to reflect the path to your website. Save it, that is the only adjustment that needs to be made to this.
10. To adjust the images, collect the thumbs or gallery images from your affiliate site, over the month, and cut them to the size of 133x200px, in whatever image editor you use.
11. Rename the files from 01 to 28, 30, 31, depending on the days of the month you are promoting for, but remember you MUST have the complete month accounted for, don’t think that you can skip a couple of days, because your user will think it is broken and bin it!
12. Upload Widg.php and folder “widgimg” to the root of your server, unless you have specified in the coding of Widg.php and widget.html.
13. When it comes to the last day of the month, or a day specified for changing the images, then you just cut the next month’s images to size, rename to the correct convention and upload them to the widgimg folder.

PLEASE NOTE: The implementation of this, is your own choice, not because “MountainGoat said so…” and also the other thing is, that the references to 127.0.0.1 are my testing server and they are the lines that you replace for your website!

ThePornIdentity · 04-24-2008, 04:35 AM

Thanks MountainGoat, great follow up there!

I went to get the generator yesterday but saw it only has one for Mac and Vista, no XP? Will the above work in another generator perhaps? I've looked around as well and noticed a few that you can make on their webpages but they don't give much "movement" for your custom ideas as far as I could see.
Thanks mate for your time!

MountainGoat · 04-24-2008, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThePornIdentity

I went to get the generator yesterday but saw it only has one for Mac and Vista, no XP? Will the above work in another generator perhaps?

Sadly, no. The programme to generate the widgets will, I think run on XP, but it is impossible, (unless someone can prove this Mac user wrong!) to run a widget on XP! After all, there are so many little bits of open source out there to mod the operating systems. I think that the Amnesty project is building an interface that you can place on to an XP system.

However, to build for a mainstream project, it may be required to buy a mainstream generator, because I am still trying to work how to port from one machine to the next, because in the programming the system generated sometime looks for code on the computer that it was generated on!

Lipshtich Lady · 04-24-2008, 07:30 AM

Ok - am just having my coffee maybe not too bright...

so a widget would be something I can post on a site and my surfer can download (if he has a mac or vista) and it would sit on his desktop like the vista clock and rotate pics?

Can I add a rotating link for him to click to that will open a browser?

ThePornIdentity · 04-24-2008, 07:32 AM

aaah ok, pity. Thanks though mate. I know Opera does make it possible to run a widget on an XP like Yahoo widgets but yeah I think you talking about running a widgets completely by itself am I correct? That is pretty neat with Vista then, no need for downloading new programs.

ThePornIdentity · 04-24-2008, 07:35 AM

Hi Lipshtich Lady, yes you can do that, not sure how though yet lol I think MountainGoat might have a better idea how to. I'm actually wanting to do something like that to where images can be updated by uploading an image or "mini" html page to the server which then updates the widget.

Btw, while checking those other widget sites, it seems they don't allow adult material at all, abit frustrating because when you make one it loads it to their distribution nextwork... which is fantastic BUT not if you break their T&C's soooo.

MountainGoat · 04-24-2008, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lipshtich Lady

Ok - am just having my coffee maybe not too bright...

so a widget would be something I can post on a site and my surfer can download (if he has a mac or vista) and it would sit on his desktop like the vista clock and rotate pics?

Can I add a rotating link for him to click to that will open a browser?

It is possible, but I am still working on that one, I'm thinking that it would be something along the lines of a PHP script on the server, that offers up links. As I said before, I am still looking in to this my self, so I will be able to say better when I have had a weekend from work, so I can dedicate a few hours to it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThePornIdentity

aaah ok, pity. Thanks though mate. I know Opera does make it possible to run a widget on an XP like Yahoo widgets but yeah I think you talking about running a widgets completely by itself am I correct? That is pretty neat with Vista then, no need for downloading new programs.

Btw, while checking those other widget sites, it seems they don't allow adult material at all, abit frustrating because when you make one it loads it to their distribution nextwork... which is fantastic BUT not if you break their T&C's soooo.

As for the distribution, you would have to distribute something like this through your own site, and also if you have an affiliation network. Most of the widget distributors do not allow, as you rightly said, adult content...

04-22-2008, 10:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
ThePornIdentity Adult Artists Agency Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Inbetween continents atm Posts: 712 Points: 1,050	Widgets Hi all, Anyone done any work with desktop widgets? Done a search but only found people talking about wordpress widgets. Looking into using them more with my marketing, any "good" tutorials around that you might know of? Yahoo's one was a little umm... technical. Muchas Gracias! __________________ Brad Creative Strategic Director Adult Artists Agency / Strategic Entertainment Marketing / www.adultartists.net / Google keyword: adult artists

04-23-2008, 05:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
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04-23-2008, 05:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
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04-23-2008, 07:40 AM	#9 (permalink)
ScreaM The Bumpmeister Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 73,507 Points: 735	I only know of Yahoo widgets. __________________ (3:03:54 AM) ScreaM: are you listening to christina aguilera again? (3:04:14 AM) DirtyJumbo: no britney spears

04-23-2008, 08:22 AM	#10 (permalink)
MountainGoat WARNING! May ask stupid questions... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Catalan Pyrenees... Posts: 562 Points: 1,020	A brief and dirty widget tutorial. How to create a ‘basic’ widget for your site. The widget is based on a picture of the day type image. So, here we go (with thanks to SabrinaDeep for the POTD script that I have modified for this purpose). 1. Download Amnesty Generator from here. 2. Prepare your server. Create a folder in the server, for the thumbnails, and then select the images that you want to create the thumbnails. In testing, I found that if you stuck to a horizontal or vertical format, then this would work better… So, say you were using a monthly rotation, use all vertical. 3. Resize all your images to the same size. (VERY IMPORTANT LATER ON!) And not too big, say 200px on the long side, because you do not want to swamp the user’s widget bar. 4. Open up notepad, and then write a script like this one I have added below (from SabrinaDeep’s script earlier on last week!) PHP Code: `<?php $today=date('d'); ?> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <img src="http:/SERVERNAMEHERE/WIDGET1/image/<? print $today ?>.jpg" width="WIDTH" height="HEIGHT"></a> </body> </html>` 5. Once you have saved this, after making the adjustments necessary to work, then upload this, and the images to the server. Make sure that your image script is in an easy to remember place (I saved to the root folder during testing, and it worked fine) 6. Create a new document in your notepad/html editor, and then add PHP Code: `<i frame src="http://YOURSERVERNAME/SCRIPT.php" height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"></i frame>` Where the height and the width correspond to the height/width of your images. (just remove the spaces in "I"frame, cos the board software blocks them!) 7. Open up Amnesty generator, and in the HTML code field, place the command above in there. 8. In the name and identifier, write whatever you want to call it, and with the width and height used above. 9. Save. 10. Install or upload to the server, for others to download and install. [Edit In the "I"frame code, there is, or may be some charecters before the first <, just remove these, because I think it is the way the software on the board renders the lines in the code.]

04-23-2008, 05:58 AM	#4 (permalink)
redglow Do I want to change this? Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Norway Posts: 340 Points: 1,725	The onely one I've heard about is Deep Sabrina's widget. (shows when she's online, how long til her next live show, pic of the day...) Haven't seen any tuts about how to make one though.. Edit: in Sabrina's thread about her new gadget/whidget thingie you can also find how-to-make-one link....

04-23-2008, 06:11 AM	#6 (permalink)
MountainGoat WARNING! May ask stupid questions... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Catalan Pyrenees... Posts: 562 Points: 1,020	First go and grab a copy of Amnesty Generator from amnestywidgets.com Then you insert whatever you want in to the HTML code (I used a server hosted picture of the day from an affiliate programme), then you add your details, and what the script is called, with width and height. Then you save it, and install to desk top. Then allow your firewall permissions for the widget to access the net.

04-23-2008, 02:59 PM	#11 (permalink)
ThePornIdentity Adult Artists Agency Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Inbetween continents atm Posts: 712 Points: 1,050	Hi guys, wow, seems alot happened while I was away lol I'm glad it's sparked a little interested in widgets too, I think it's a highly underused tool at the moment for our area. Thanks for that little tut there Goat, much appreciated mate! If I have any questions I'll be sure to pop you a message. Hope you know what we talkign about now Meat lol __________________ Brad Creative Strategic Director Adult Artists Agency / Strategic Entertainment Marketing / www.adultartists.net / Google keyword: adult artists

04-23-2008, 08:42 PM	#12 (permalink)
Auf Mauf Is Aga really Little Buddha? Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Macedonia Posts: 2,298 Points: 4,350	Hm that sound good, widgets are so popular now and maybe porn widget will be a good option for making money __________________ **EXCLUSIVE ADULT DVD LICENSES* "Courier New"]20% OFF ANY 3 Critical-X, Madness, Mach2 & Pandemonium DVDs!!!!

04-24-2008, 03:03 AM	#13 (permalink)
MountainGoat WARNING! May ask stupid questions... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Catalan Pyrenees... Posts: 562 Points: 1,020	Part 2, a little more in depth... As I detailed yesterday, about building a widget in Netpond, I won’t go over the basics again, unless you are unsure about something, if you are just post it here, and I will try and answer the questions! (Hey, I have only been looking in to this, a little under 24 hours!) To help you along, a little, I have built a widget resource pack, which, surprise, surprise, is for the promo of my own site! Download it here. It is just over 4mb in size, because I have included the images, to give an idea of the overview. It is very simple to get everything working right, but I will point out that the widget functionality does not support PHP as a native standard, I am unsure if they support Javascript either, for that matter, because I have not been able to have a look in the code to which they are built. Basically, they are static web displays. As my tutorial went yesterday, I packaged all the functionality up and shipped that off to a server, and then in the code for the widget packaged it in an “I”frame. This is so you do not lose the PHP or if you decide on a bigger and better, the Javascript/flash/whatever functionality. Ok, to modify the resource pack, which I have built last night (twenty minutes, because of a thunderstorm which took out the power!) I will detail below how to modify it for your own promo purposes. 1. Decompress the widgettutorial.zip to somewhere memorable in your machine. 2. Open the “Widget.html” file in any editing package of your choice. 3. Add your own background, by cutting an image to the dimensions of 180x250px. Then save this in to the “widgimg” folder, in whatever file format you should desire. 4. Find the entry that says: PHP Code: `#frame {text-align: center; height: 250px; width: 180px; clear: both; background-image: url(http://127.0.0.1/widgimg/back.png); background-color: #000000; }` and change the server address to whatever your website is, and the ‘back.png’ to whatever your image file name is. Remember, this is going to be running on the computer of the user, so this is important that you get this right to start with! Also remember to make the background graphic to the size of the #frame div tag, or larger, so it doesn’t look like a s*** in a bucket. 5. Now, next find the entry of “I”frame, and which should look like this, with the spaces removed in the I word... PHP Code: `<I frame src="http://127.0.0.1/widg.php" height="210" width="143" scrolling="No" border="0"></I frame>` and replace the server address with whatever your website is called. 6. Now, find the link below this, to navigate to the site of your choice, but remember to put in your affiliate ID in to this link!!! (The reason for this is the visitor may download the widget, without directly becoming a member, and I would hate you to lose out on the hard work you have put in to building this box of tricks, when they finally do!) The link is the bit that looks like PHP Code: `<a href="http://www.nenablue.com" target="_blank">Visit Nena Blue</a>` Make sure you do not adjust the target because if not, the website will attempt to open in the widget, itself; and the user will bin the widget in a heartbeat. 7. Adjust the title of the website in the same line, so instead of “Visit Nena Blue” it will become “Visit This Site, or Whatever!” 8. Open up Amnesty Generator, which you should have snagged yesterday, if you were following the preceding tutorial, and build the “Widget.html” file that you should still have open in your editor of choice, into a widget. Give it a memorable name, and the size of 180x250. This is a good size to be visible, but not swamp the user’s widget bar, or desktop. 9. Open up Widg.php, and change the line that says: PHP Code: `http://127.0.0.1/widgimg/<? print $today ?>.jpg` to reflect the path to your website. Save it, that is the only adjustment that needs to be made to this. 10. To adjust the images, collect the thumbs or gallery images from your affiliate site, over the month, and cut them to the size of 133x200px, in whatever image editor you use. 11. Rename the files from 01 to 28, 30, 31, depending on the days of the month you are promoting for, but remember you MUST have the complete month accounted for, don’t think that you can skip a couple of days, because your user will think it is broken and bin it! 12. Upload Widg.php and folder “widgimg” to the root of your server, unless you have specified in the coding of Widg.php and widget.html. 13. When it comes to the last day of the month, or a day specified for changing the images, then you just cut the next month’s images to size, rename to the correct convention and upload them to the widgimg folder. PLEASE NOTE: The implementation of this, is your own choice, not because “MountainGoat said so…” and also the other thing is, that the references to 127.0.0.1 are my testing server and they are the lines that you replace for your website!

04-24-2008, 04:35 AM	#14 (permalink)
ThePornIdentity Adult Artists Agency Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Inbetween continents atm Posts: 712 Points: 1,050	Thanks MountainGoat, great follow up there! I went to get the generator yesterday but saw it only has one for Mac and Vista, no XP? Will the above work in another generator perhaps? I've looked around as well and noticed a few that you can make on their webpages but they don't give much "movement" for your custom ideas as far as I could see. Thanks mate for your time! __________________ Brad Creative Strategic Director Adult Artists Agency / Strategic Entertainment Marketing / www.adultartists.net / Google keyword: adult artists

04-24-2008, 07:30 AM	#16 (permalink)
Lipshtich Lady RageCash Ben is my hero :) Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: somewhere Posts: 348 Points: 1,370	Ok - am just having my coffee maybe not too bright... so a widget would be something I can post on a site and my surfer can download (if he has a mac or vista) and it would sit on his desktop like the vista clock and rotate pics? Can I add a rotating link for him to click to that will open a browser? __________________ Lipshtich Lady Spicecash - make $$ with BDSM

04-24-2008, 07:32 AM	#17 (permalink)
ThePornIdentity Adult Artists Agency Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Inbetween continents atm Posts: 712 Points: 1,050	aaah ok, pity. Thanks though mate. I know Opera does make it possible to run a widget on an XP like Yahoo widgets but yeah I think you talking about running a widgets completely by itself am I correct? That is pretty neat with Vista then, no need for downloading new programs. __________________ Brad Creative Strategic Director Adult Artists Agency / Strategic Entertainment Marketing / www.adultartists.net / Google keyword: adult artists

04-24-2008, 07:35 AM	#18 (permalink)
ThePornIdentity Adult Artists Agency Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Inbetween continents atm Posts: 712 Points: 1,050	Hi Lipshtich Lady, yes you can do that, not sure how though yet lol I think MountainGoat might have a better idea how to. I'm actually wanting to do something like that to where images can be updated by uploading an image or "mini" html page to the server which then updates the widget. Btw, while checking those other widget sites, it seems they don't allow adult material at all, abit frustrating because when you make one it loads it to their distribution nextwork... which is fantastic BUT not if you break their T&C's soooo. __________________ Brad Creative Strategic Director Adult Artists Agency / Strategic Entertainment Marketing / www.adultartists.net / Google keyword: adult artists

04-24-2008, 08:46 AM	#20 (permalink)
Pandaman Worken on it... Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 237 Points: 1,185