Web Widgets

WebWidgets are smallish things that you can add to your Web site to increase its functionality, or to help you understand better how it is being used.

• counters
• forms
• announcements
• search
• cgi
• Web hosting
• mailing list
• coming soon...

Counters

• A counter will show how many visits your page receives.
• It will be incremented with every visit or reload.
• Click here to insert a counter on your page.

Web Forms

• Forms on the Web allow you to get feedback from the visitors to your Web site.
• A person can leave comments, request information, or even fill out applications right from the Web browser.
• You have a few options for doing this yourself:
  • FrontPage Users
  • GoLive Users - Departmental Sites 
  • GoLive Users - Personal Web Sites

Announcements

Announcement Maker allows you (and your designees) to put date-specific information on your Web site using a Web form. The information you enter into the announcement maker will appear on your page in your site's design attributes.

Search

If you have a complex Web site with many documents, you can add a search engine to your Web site that will provide better access to the materials.

cgi-wrap

Within your Web space, you may want to run programs that retrieve data from users or manipulate data according to different parameters. CGI (common gateway interface) allows you to run (mostly) PERL programs to create your own Web widgets.

Host a .org on a Wesleyan Server

ITS offers faculty and staff a service to host either a domain name (e.g. www.myorganization.org) on a departmental or personal machine on the Wesleyan network or an IT-managed machine (usually on Condor)

Widgets Coming Soon

• mailing lists
• calendar
• logs
• search engine registration/removal
• credit cards
• twiki
• blogs
• style widgets
• how to get listed (on and off the Wesleyan Web)