Free Website, Desktop and Blog Widgets!

A widget is a bit of code that you can install and execute on your web page without requiring any additional compilation. Common web widgets include clocks, calendars, counters, etc., etc. There are quite literally many hundreds of different types of widgets that you can download onto your web page, blod or profiles page. Widget typically brings in ‘live’ content – advertisements, links, images – from a third party site without the you having to update or control the content yourself.

As is the case with any program code, widgets can be used for malicious purposes. One example is the Facebook “Secret Crush” widget, reported in early 2008 by Fortinet as luring users to install Zango adware. So if you decide to add a widget to your web page make sure you're downloading the widget from a reputable provider.