The most famous and popular widget views are provided through both the free and paid service to everyone. It comes with common sizes for widgets or marketing media to suite the majority’s demand.
If you need specific or individual formats, sizes, branding styles or other wishes to be developed, let us know about your request through contact form.
We try to keep the format short and simple, so everyone can use it or develop own source scripts or APIs.
Any XML which is well-formed and follows the sample/guidelines can be implemented with the visual widgets.
When using the widget builder, use the URL to the XML file (or to the script with the XML output) as alternative data source.
If your script performs a search or lists images (articles, posts, thumbnails, photos) of a category, it’s recommend to define the $_GET["q"] parameter for the search term/keyword or category-ID (e.g. …?q=%123 for category 123). If you are following these instructions, save the path to this script in your Control Panel -> Settings -> Source to use the widget builder’s input for search term.
For support, assistance or feedback, please don’t hessitate and contact us.
If you are going to show products through one of these webservices, simply use the alternative data source in the widget builder:
The default service is for free and is open for everyone, both commercial and incommercial web projects. After beta status, the paid-services will be activated in addition to the free service.
Paid-services will contain:
- Whitelabel, no “visual-widget.com” branding in the background of the widgets
- Cache for API data
- Cache for images and media
- Additional exports
If a question is open, just let us know by email/contact form or post a comment.
- Registration
To get started, you might use the registration form. Immediately you should find an email from Visual-Widget in your inbox including your password for the login. If it’s still missing after some minutes, please check your junk filter or contact us at info(at)visual-widget(dot)com.
The registration is for free, of course. - Login
Login with your E-Mail address and password to access the control panel and widget builder. - Setup, API
As a simple solution, we provide some open source APIs which can easily be copied to your shop. Using one of these APIs saves you from programming or writing your own script for your website.
Save the script that belongs to your shop and upload (FTP) it in the shop’s root directory to be accessable e.g. at http://www.your-shop.com/visual-widget.php
Watch/Download the API script for …If you prefer to use another filename, save the URL in the Control Panel -> Settings -> Source, e.g. http://www.your-shop.com/another-name4visual-widget.php
If no specific source input is given, we will try to catch the data from http://www.your-shop.com/visual-widget.php by default.
Developers are cordially invited to add support to further shops, CMS, blogs and other web software. We will publish further Open Source APIs for visual widgets soon. - Widget Builder
Now click the button “Open the builder” in your control panel and choose your widget.
By default you will use HTML as format.
If you want to perform an automated (product) search, let us know the Search Term (optional) at this form.
Note: For restricting products of categoryID 123, just use the search term %123 here.
Note: Experts can connect an alternative data source (optional) which is formatted like the sample XML.
Click Build and watch the preview. Above the preview, you can find the source code that you can … (5) - Copy and Paste
E.g. you can copy the widget source into your HTML page, blog post, shop template or embed the visual widget whereever you want.