The Marvelous Marie from The Boston Bibliophile asks: Today's question- Blog Widgets. Do you use them? Do you have them on your blog? Do you know what I'm talking about? :-) A blog widget is that list of books "From my LibraryThing" and such, that you'll sometimes see on someone's sidebar. If you use it, do all of your books show up or do you have it set to only show certain books? Do you have a search widget, which would allow your blog readers to search your library? Have you ever made a photomosaic of your book covers? You can find widgets and photomosaic information on the "Tools" tab in LibraryThing.
Yes, I use widgets on my blog. I might even be a Widget Junkie. I have the LT widget that shows books from my library, and although I have it set to show only books with covers, it insists on showing whatever it feels like. I'm tired of its refusal to obey, so I'll be reworking that one. I do have a search widget on my blog, but it's to search for things on my blog itself, not my LT library. I might use it more than visitors, as people will ask me about an old post, and I find it easier to use that than my memory. I haven't used the photomosaic, and I probably won't. I find the layout of my sidebars a bit cluttered, and some of the widgets I use are delaying the load time. Even though visitors are clicking on them, I need to find a faster-loading and sleeker way of presenting the same information. That's going to have to wait for a bit because I need to get this posted and start on my Christmas decorating. I put up 12 Christmas trees in the house--eight of them in the living room for my Christmas Forest--and it takes me about three days to get everything done!
