When I starting blogging, I was totally confused with Gadgets and Widgets. I was wondering what is the difference between gadgets and widgets? I started “Google-ing” it to find out the truth. Several sites that I visited were using the word “widgets” and some other sites used “gadgets”. Making my confusion worse.
Finally, I found the best answer for my question and here it is.
A widget is a piece of reusable code that you can plug into virtually any website. A gadget acts just like a widget, often fulfilling the same purpose, but it is proprietary. It only works on a certain website or a specific set of websites.
For example, Google Gadgets can look and act like widgets. But they only work on Google pages.A widget, on the other hand, works on any page that lets you add an HTML block. You can put them on your blog, or your personalized start page, or your personal website.-Source
You can see my sidebar contains Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Followers and Tags Cloud. Those are examples of widgets we are talking about. I am using code from FeedBurner for the recent posts, and recent comments widgets.
So, here comes my definition for “widgets”. Widgets are third party elements or codes that are reusable, easily-organizable and make a page more interesting.
Update: Google gadgets can work not only in Google pages but everywhere. Read about it here!
fyi this isn't correct– gadgets in fact work on any page of the web:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/foryourpage/
@Anonymous
Thx for your update……I will refer to the link you provided…..
And I hope you will Name/URL option to leave a comment… =)
Thx.
hey This is Aravind. I'm using PRO indexer Theme..
I want to keep gadjets in the bottom portion of the page as it was in Lunax.
How can i do that?
Aravind, actually the theme comes with three column footer feature with "Add a gadget" function…have a look at these..
http://proindexer-introblogger.blogspot.com/
http://btemplates.com/2010/blogger-template-pro-indexer/demo/
Oh
Its alright..
Thank you