Simple Widget Tutorial

Feedjit is a service that provides live traffic feed for your site. It is easy to set up – you copy chunk of HTML and insert it into your blog’s markup. That is, if you know HTML and used to editing files in your blog, which shouldn’t be a requirement for average blogger. This is why popular blog providers supply [Feedjit widgets](http://feedjit.com/join/) – so that blogger does not have to edit files by hand and FTP them to the host. In this little exercise we create such a widget for BlogEngine.

Post Pager Control

When you have lots of pages on your blog, moving through using just “next” and “previous” buttons doesn’t cut it. It seems like a small thing, but if you look at most sophisticated web 2.0-style sites with large volume of content, they all go into the long way to provide good navigation. Because it is important for your users to feel good, and some get really dizzy when they don’t understand where they are.

Picasa for BlogEngine

There is new extension in town. It is built on [Picasa SlideShow](http://www.rtur.net/blog/post/2008/12/12/Picasa-SlideShow-for-BlogEngine.aspx), but it adds web album functionality to it, this is why I decided to package it as separate extension. After all, it is not a slide-show any more, not just *SlideShow* at least, so I did not want name to cause a confusion.

Setting priorities for extensions

Sometimes you have an extension that you want to respond to events before all the others. Or may be you have two extensions that depend on each other and one should always fire before the other. It is not a common scenario, but I did run into it more then once and had to come up with less than perfect workarounds to resolve this.

dfMarine - updated

The dfMarine theme has been updated with sliding widgets. No, I did not become a [w:jQuery] expert just yet - it is mostly courtesy of [Chris Blankenship](http://www.dscoduc.com/post/2008/08/16/AnimatedCollapse-Extension-for-Widgets.aspx), I used his AnimatedCollapse extension and it did the job exactly the way I wanted. I did run into problem with [W:jQuery] using “$” function, it has a conflict with other JS I run on my site where this same thing used a little bit differently.

dfMarine – new theme for BlogEngine

With Christmas just around the corner I wanted to share something good with BE community to keep the spirit alive :) I hope you’ll like this new theme, it is widgets ready and should work fine with BE 1.4 and up. I think I covered all (or almost all) widgets in CSS, so it should look decent with your site out of the box.

Picasa SlideShow for BlogEngine

I'm a long time [Picasa](http://picasa.google.com/) fan. I used it before it was bought by Google and even before I new what the Google is. Now at version 3.0, although not as popular as [Flickr](http://flickr.com), Picasa is a great choice as desktop photo manager and it's [Web Albums](http://picasaweb.google.com/) is a valuable online photo storage.

Spam counter control

I’ve been playing a lot with Commentor and [Waegis](http://waegis.com) lately and got a little tired of having to get to admin page through extensions panel. I wanted a one-click shortcut from the front page. Great laziness usually leads to a lot of work – for me it resulted in spam counter user control.

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