Water Widgets for the Web!
By Trey Cody
Do you have a blog, website, wiki, social media profile, or other form of a web page? EPA has something that you might be interested in to jazz up your site! They’re called widgets (sometimes referred to as gadgets), and they are an easy way to keep your viewers interactive and entertained on your page.
“What’s a widget?”, you might be wondering. A widget is small piece of Web programming code that makes something interesting appear on your blog or Web page. Widgets can feature updated information (like a clock, countdown, or news ticker) or let the reader perform an action (like use a search box). EPA’s widgets allow users to see or search for environmental concepts.
Some cool water widgets offered by EPA are:
- WaterSense Tip – Get a new tip on water efficiency each month and get more information from the WaterSense Web site.
- Natural Lakeshores – This widget provides a series of ten tips for improved lakeshore stewardship, focusing on natural lakeshores – lakeshores with plenty of native trees, shrubs, and overhanging vegetation. Native vegetation along lakeshores provides food, shelter, habitat and shade for fish and protects the lake from the damaging effects of erosion and polluted stormwater runoff. This contributes to improved water quality, which can in turn help increase the value of lakefront property.
- Find Your Watershed – Enter your ZIP code to get information about the watershed(s) in that area.
If you’re interested in EPA’s widgets, check out the widget page containing more fun environmental widgets for everyone!
Do you have any environmental widgets on your blog or page that are not from EPA? What other kinds of widgets have you seen around the web that you’d like to see EPA create? Let us know about your experience with them!
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