Top 10 ways to make your website more interesting

1st May 2008

Widget, gadgets, snippets? Whatever you call them they are items that you can add to your webpage or blog to make it more interesting and stand out from the crowd. Here are 10 good examples.

1. Mailing list form
   Allow customers to submit their email address to you for marketing purposes.
2. Google map
   Show your location in a style most people are familiar with
3. Calendar
   Show a interactive calender to give your users perspective on events related to your business.
4. Poll
   A form that lets your users vote on a given subject and see the overall result afterwards
5. RSS news feed
   Display the news headlines for the industry you're involved in.
6. MP3 player
   Not one for all sites but music can set the scene and add an atmosphere.
7. Stylesheet switcher
   Let the user control the look of your website, give them a few colour options and let then choose their favorite.
8. Currency converter
   On an ecommerce site it can be very useful to allow currency calculations on the page.
9. Flickr Photos
   Display images from your Flickr profile.
10. Timeline
    Plot out events on a linear time line counting down to a particular date.

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