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Sharrre is a jQuery plugin that eases creating social sharing widgets for Facebook,Twitter, Google Plus, Digg and Delicious.

The plugin calls the social buttons on demand which is great for minimizing the number of initial requests and improving loading speeds.

Any type of custom designs can be created for the widgets (no need to use the default buttons provided by the social networks) and events(like, +1, tweet, etc.) can be fired up with the plugin's API calls.

P.S. Google Plus widget requires PHP to work (the PHP file is already included in the package).

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A website toolbar is something that can beautify or uglify web pages depending on the solution used and how it is configured.

In order to improve the visibility of several things on WRD, last month, I have integrated, Skysa, a free-to-use (with paid plans) toolbar that can sit either in the header or footer of websites (check the footer>left of this page) and provides many features in a tiny space.

Skysa is loaded with many applications for social buttons, translating pages, content aggregating, announcements, polls, chat, games and more.

As the toolbar is highly-customizable, I have placed social buttons with the order I preferred, so readers would easily tweet, like or +1 WRD (and, it worked as expected, the amount of such social activities were much higher than the previous months).

And, with a minimalistic approach, only activated the social widgets, translate, "who is on" and scroll-to-top apps. Simply, the ones that will ease the way readers browse and use WRD.

The translate app is great, it remembers the choice of the reader and auto-translates any other pages that readers would visit. So as the "who is online". Besides an "online readers count", it displays them on a world map.

It is possible to track the usage on each application, how many times they are clicked, etc. and, from the statistics, I can easily tell that "they were actively used".

Skysa has an application gallery where you can browse, choose and activate quickly. Every app has its own customization options.

If you have a membership-based website, the app can integrate into that as well and use the profile info (name, photo, etc.) when needed.

For paid plans, it enables you to create custom applications, manage multiple toolbars and place ads inside it.

Also, worth mentioning, the color of everything inside the toolbar can be completely customized so that it will fit perfectly into any website.

Conclusion

The most exciting thing about a toolbar is its ability to "always staying inside the viewport". During this 1 month, Skysa proved me that it can help me use that space efficiently and it is a stable platform.

There is definitely a lot of room for improvement, new apps, more positioning options, etc. but Skysa is very solid at what it does. No problems faced during that month.

I can keep using the toolbar or not, but, if you in search of such a solution, I definitely suggest giving the application a try.

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jQuery has lots of plugins and jQuery UI to improve its functionality in many ways.

Ninja UI is a plugin for the framework that brings new alternatives to them in a single package.

It includes widgets like buttons, accordion, icons, tooltips/modal box, slider, rating, tabs, auto-suggest and canvas-powered loader icon.

They are unobtrusive and the icons used actually come as a separate plugin that is in the form of web fonts.

P.S. Its documentation is not complete yet but the source of the examples are pretty self-explanatory.

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jTweetsAnywhere is a jQuery Twitter widget for easily integrating tweets into any website.

It supports Twitter's @Anywhere features and can display:

• tweets from one or more user's feeds
• tweets from a user's list
• results of a Twitter search

The widget automatically detects URLs, #hashtags, @usernames and link them accordingly (shows Hovercards when hovering @username or profile images).

It also adds a tweetbox to your website where users can tweet instantly and adds a "connect with Twitter" button so visitors can follow you without leaving the website.

jTweetsAnywhere comes with many options for a maximum customization and lets you to enable/disable the tweetbox + follow buttons, set the number of tweets to be displayed and more.

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jQuery-Accessible-RIA is a set of accessible, usable & easy to implement widgets that are strictly WAI WCAG 2.0 and WAI ARIA compliant.

The widgets provided are:

• lightbox
• live form validation
• tabs
• sortable tables

jQuery-Accessible-RIA is built using the jQuery UI & works out-of-the-box. Also, they can be highly customized.

For older screen readers, it includes a workaround & for anyone willing to dive into the code, it is fully-commented.

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Google Web Elements is a fresh website where you can find all Google widgets in one place & easily add any of them to your websites.

The website simply offers a similar customization interface for each widget and generates the JavaScript code for embedding them.

It currently presents 8 widgets:

• Calendar (for sharing your Google Calendar with your readers)
• Conversation (a comment replacement where users can have a conversation)
• Custom Search (custom Google search engine)
• Maps (easier Google Maps integration)
• News (latest Google News articles)
• Presentations (for sharing Google Docs presentations)
• Spreadsheets (for sharing Google Docs spreadsheets)
• Youtube News (Youtube news videos from a selected list of publishers)

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Control Suite is a set of 6 high quality widgets and controls built with the Prototype JavaScript framework.

Each script is well tested, highly extensible and unobstrusive.

Suite has these widgets and controls:

• Tab
• Modal
• TextArea
• Select Multiple
• Rating
• Progress Bar

Different approach to star rating:

Suite is very well documented. You can easily reach the details of the APIs and this makes the product much more usable.

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Meteora is set of cross-browser widgets and controls for quickly creating rich and customizable web applications without programming excessive JavaScript that is painful to debug in every browser.

Meteora is based on the great mootools framework (version 1.11) and scripts that already work with mootools can be used with Meteora too!

To see some nice demos of this JavaScript widget library, check:

• Editor widget
• File browser widget
• Table sort widget

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