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The real estate expanding floating window components pop open straight from the toolbar, and can contain anything from widget, to sign-up form and games. So go on, give your users the gift of gadgets.
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Thanks to a new partnership with web gadgets directory LabPixies Ltd., Conduit will soon be offering publishers a whole new series of gadgets for them and their users to add to their toolbars.
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Selected LabPixies Gadgets |
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Flickr Slides
Showcase Flickr's collection of cool images, or scroll through your own Flickr pics
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YouTube Top 10
Get the Most recent, featured, most-viewed, and top-rated videos, or tag to search your desired content
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iTunes Music
Get the latest ditties from the iTunes Store, via RSS, with the iTunes Music gadget
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Daily SweetIM
The SweetIM gadget will show you our most popular emoticon and wink animations of the day
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Sudoku Puzzle
Get thousands of free Sudokus, an addictive numbers puzzle game
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MyNotes
A simple tool which allows you to maintain multiple notes in one gadget
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We are also proud to announce a new technical development that will make it even easier for publishers to incorporate gadgets into their toolbars: Now you can add them straight from your toolbar Control Panel.
No more messing around with code or complicated instructions.
Just point, click, and poof - You've got gadgets.
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Adding Gadgets to Your Toolbar |
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- Pick a Gadget - Any Gadget - Choose the gadgets you want to include in your toolbar. You can start by looking at LabPixies' library, or simply search the web. Copy the gadgets' URL.
- Presentation is Everything - Once you've chosen the gadgets you want to incorporate into your toolbar, decide how you want to showcase them: as a stand-alone button on the toolbar, as an item in an existing drop-down menu, as an item in a new drop-down menu, or as an add-on to another toolbar component.
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If you want the gadget to launch from its own button on the toolbar, use the following instructions:
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- Login to your Control Panel
- Scroll down the 'Add' menu and click on 'Gadget Button'
- Choose an icon to represent the gadget
- Add text to the icon
- Enter in the gadget's URL
- Enter the gadget's width and height (in pixels)
- If you want, you can add a 'Hint', so that you can tell your users more about the clickable component, when they roll over the gadget button with their mouse
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To add the gadget as an item in an existing drop-down menu in your toolbar, do the following:
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- Login to your Control Panel
- Scroll across the dummy toolbar in your Control Panel
- Click on the drop-down menu to which you want to add the gadget (Link-button) and hit 'Edit'
- Arrive to the page titled: 'Edit Button with Menu'
- Choose an icon to represent your gadget
- Go to 'Edit drop down menu' and select 'Gadget' option
- Enter a caption for the gadget
- Enter the gadget's URL
- Enter the gadget's width and height (in pixels)
- If you want, you can add a 'Hint', so that you can tell your users more about the clickable component, when they roll over the item with their mouse
- Opt to upload an image to accompany the gadget link (it's automatically resized)
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If you want the gadget to appear as an item in a new drop-down menu, do the following:
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- Login to your Control Panel
- Scroll down the 'Add' menu and click on 'Button with Menu'
- Arrive to the page titled: 'Add Button with Menu'
- Choose an icon to represent your gadget
- Go to 'Edit drop down menu' and select 'Gadget' option
- Enter a caption for the gadget
- Enter the gadget's URL
- Enter the gadget's width and height (in pixels)
- If you want, you can add a 'Hint', so that you can tell your users more about the clickable component, when they roll over the item with their mouse
- Opt to upload an image to accompany the gadget link (it's automatically resized)
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You can use your toolbar's API to add a gadget to other toolbar components, including: RSS, HTML component, external menu, or even another gadget. Check the Conduit Community Forum for more details on how to do this.
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Give them Gadgets! |
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Go on - open up a world of windows for your users. Login to your toolbar Control Panel and add some gadgets now.
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Your opinion is important to us |
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