March 19, 2007

The Perils of Widgets

Last week I wrote about the wonders of widgets that let you embed content from one site into another. I mostly wrote about widgets in the context of embedding listings of upcoming events and multimedia content in your website or blog.

The problem is that some of these widgets really messed-up how my home page loaded. So I've unpublished a number of these widget-containing posts and I'll add them back once they're off of my home page.

So while I still think using widgets as a way to take advantage of the reach and distributed nature of the Internet is an excellent strategy, you do have to be careful about which widgets you use, not include too many on one page and make sure they all work so that your site/blog readers don't encounter any page-loading errors.

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