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George replied on October 19, 2009 18:36 to the question "How do you create a new blog post?" in Widgetbox:

Hi Norman,

We don't offer a way to create a new post for your blog. We are a web widget platform that provides useful and fun widgets for your blog or social network.

Let us know if you're trying to install a widget to your blog. We can help you with that. If you're trying to create a new post to your blog, consult your blogging platform help system.

George set one of George's replies as an official response to "What browsers do you support?" in Widgetbox

George replied on June 10, 2009 21:23 to the question "What browsers do you support?" in Widgetbox:

To browse and develop on Widgetbox, you need a modern web browser with JavaScript and Adobe Flash enabled (9 or later). We officially support Firefox 2 and 3 (Mac, Windows, Linux), Safari 2 and 3 (Mac, Windows), and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (Windows). We do not support Internet Explorer 5 (Windows, Mac).

Because of the nature of the Web and web technologies, we suggest using a web standards compliant, modern browser that's relatively new but not beta. Currently, we would recommend Firefox 3 or Safari 3 to get the best possible experience from Widgetbox and the rest of the Web.

George replied on June 10, 2009 15:41 to the problem "Widget Settings are reset on Publish Changes" in Widgetbox:

Thanks. We haven't heard of this being a widespread issue but we're going to look into it.

George replied on June 10, 2009 15:39 to the problem "Amazon Associate-ID sent on Header, but not Detail/Item" in Widgetbox:

This looks to be an issue with how we handle feeds like this. We're looking into how to fix it and we'll get back to you when we have a solution.

George replied on June 09, 2009 19:16 to the question "Personalized "get widget" button in pro" in Widgetbox:

Unfortunately, we do not support this level of customization on the "Get Widget" button at this time. It's a great idea that we'll consider for our product roadmap.

You may be interested in our closed beta developer program:
http://blog.widgetbox.com/2009/05/ann...

George replied on June 09, 2009 19:10 to the problem "Amazon Associate-ID sent on Header, but not Detail/Item" in Widgetbox:

Can you repost the widget link again, it seems to have got cut when you reposted it.

George replied on June 09, 2009 18:56 to the question "Text is cutting off" in Widgetbox:

Hi Sincha, can you be more specific of where the contents is being clipped off?

Is it on a particular widget or when making a blidget or something else?

George replied on June 09, 2009 17:30 to the problem "get widget icon not appearing on widget" in Widgetbox:

Sounds good roger. It could have been you turned the "Get Widget" off at the widget creation level. But it sounds like you got it sorted it. Cool.

George replied on June 09, 2009 15:33 to the question "Personalize sharing widget box" in Widgetbox:

Hi Jose, we do not offer a way to personalize the Share menu at this time.

George replied on June 09, 2009 15:30 to the problem "how to remove the word true from widgetbox" in Widgetbox:

Can you let us know what widget you're seeing the word "true" in? We'll try to help you from there.

George replied on June 09, 2009 06:58 to the problem "Widget Settings are reset on Publish Changes" in Widgetbox:

Sorry, I was responding to the original post too that was stating this was happening with a specific widget.

Can you let us know what browser you're using and operating system?

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:51 to the question "Widget rejected for directory, now it doesn't work - why?" in Widgetbox:

Hi Paul, I'm able to get to and see your widget from the direct link you posted just fine in Widgetbox. It seems to be working fine. Are you still having problems seeing it?

As far as upgrading to Pro, it appears you already are a Pro account. Once you're Pro, we no longer offer the option of upgrading (since you already are).

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:44 to the question "Looking for search widget developer for Amazon store" in Widgetbox:

Doing a quick search in the Widgetbox gallery, I did happen to find this one:
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/amazo...

I'd also suggest looking through the rest of the widgets tagged with amazon:
http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/amazon

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:39 to the problem "Widget Settings are reset on Publish Changes" in Widgetbox:

Can you let us know if it's with this particular widget or are you seeing this issue with other widgets as well?

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:31 to the idea "What about religion??" in Widgetbox:

Hi annie,

In case you may have missed it, we now have a religion channel:
http://www.widgetbox.com/network/reli...

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:28 to the question "404 error "syndicate" not available???? huh???" in Widgetbox:

Hi xpert,

The most likely culprit to this issue is that your HTML-based widget has links that are relative versus being absolute. So when any of those links are being qualified on our site, it's completing it with our syndication server.

If this is the case, try making your link references absolute (http://www.mysite.com/link.html) instead of relative (/link.html). This should hopefully resolve the issue.

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:23 to the question "Can I change of position and personalize the "get widget" image" in Widgetbox:

HI Paul,

You can't change the position or look of the "Get Widget" button but Widget Pro users have the option to hide the Get Widget button on a per widget basis. (Blidget Pro has now been rolled into our Widgetbox Pro account offering.)

A Widgetbox Pro account allows use of the Blidget Pro Editor to make up to 10 Pro blidgets and unlimited Basic blidgets.

You can learn more about Widgetbox Pro here:
http://www.widgetbox.com/product/pro/

George replied on June 09, 2009 04:18 to the question "I need specific instruction on how to change a link target" in Widgetbox:

Hi Ruth, sorry about that dead link. I've updated the instructions to this:

The most common problem with widgets is in its links. Widgetbox renders each widget in an iframe and thus its links need to target _blank or _top. If you can't easily get at each link to change the targeting, you can insert the code snippet "Links in New Window" from the Insert Snippet dropdown menu in the Widget Code Editor of the Widget Studio. This is available for HTML/JS type widgets. For form submittals, trying adding target="blank" to the form tag.

http://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/...

Let us know if you have further questions.

George replied on June 08, 2009 14:38 to the question "Upgraded to Pro, but still seeing a "get widget ad". The report form under the widget to report something like this doesn't work." in Widgetbox:

If you're trying to turn off the "Get Widget" button located at the bottom of the widget, you'll need to uncheck this option in the Customization Settings located to the right of the widget on the widget details page:


Uncheck the option label "Include "Get Widget" button on install. Then customize the widget to your preference and click either Get Widget button.

If you already got the widget, go to your Installed Widgets list and find the widget and click on the widget's name. Look for the same "Include 'Get Widget' button." option here and uncheck it. Then click "Publish Changes".