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In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an interface element a user interacts with, such as a window or a text box; widgets are packaged in toolkits and used to build graphical user interfaces. A fashion widget applies that idea to fashion content: a small, portable element that brings fashion news, fashion job listings or other apparel content onto a blog, portal or network page. The term “fashion widgets” was coined by the Apparel Search Company in June 2007 for widgets built specifically for the fashion industry.
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In this section you will learn about Fashion Widgets (by the way the term "Fashion Widgets" was coined by the Apparel Search Company in June 2007).
Do you know what a "widget" is? More importantly, do you know what a "Fashion Widget" is? Well first, let me give you a little info about the term widget as it relates to the internet.According to Wikipedia, in computer programming, a widget (or control) is an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish them from their physical counterparts, e.g. virtual buttons that can be clicked with a mouse cursor, vs. physical buttons that can be pressed with a finger. Widgets are often packaged together in widget toolkits. Programmers use widgets to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This definition has been obtained under the GNU Free Documentation License. Definition from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/widget (June 2007)
Now that we have that boring definition out of the way, let me tell you about the Fashion Widget. Actually, I guess the Apparel Search Company is the first to actually call something a "fashion widget". When searching for a method to add news and job listings to fashion blogs, I had learned about widgets. Then I decided that their should be widgets specifically for the fashion industry. Hence the "fashion widget". So far, I have created a few widgets. Some for fashion news and some for fashion jobs. You can find examples of what I have done at the Fashion Widget section on Apparel Search.
To build these widgets, I had gone to a website called SpringWidgets. From that site, I was able to add RSS Feeds from my Clothing Industry Jobs website and fashion news feeds from my Fashion Newspaper website. The SpringWidgets site then creates the widget. The widget that has been created can then be used on any fashion website. For example, they can be used on blogs, portals, networks sucah as mySpace, etc.
If you want to try an make your own widget, you can find apparel industry RSS Feeds on Apparel search. You can use Fashion Job RSS Feeds or Fashion Industry News RSS Feeds.
You may also have interest in learning about fashion gadgets.
A widget is only as good as the feed behind it. Apparel Search publishes RSS feeds for fashion industry news and for clothing industry jobs, and a widget turns either feed into a self-updating box: headlines appear on the host site as they are published, with no further work by the host. That made widgets an early form of content syndication for fashion — a small site could offer fresh industry news and job listings alongside its own writing.
Widgets belong to the family of fashion gadgets and fashion apps covered in this directory: small, focused tools that do one job on a page. The social side of the same era — social bookmarking, viral marketing and fashion podcasts — is covered in its own entries, and together they record how the fashion web learned to distribute content beyond the page it was published on.
A widget carrying fashion content: a small interactive web element — typically built from an RSS feed of fashion news or clothing industry jobs — that can be placed on blogs, portals and network pages.
The Apparel Search Company, in June 2007, when it created widgets carrying fashion news feeds and fashion job listings for use on fashion blogs and websites.
By feeding an RSS feed — fashion industry news feeds or fashion job feeds — into a widget builder, which produces an element that other sites can embed and display.