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Widgely.com is a template and document creation website that lets anybody make their own templates and use other peoples templates to make cool looking documents. I built widgely so that I could make things that my family, friends and I needed. But also, I wanted an easy way for people who didn't have the inclination or perhaps the ability on computers, to easily create documents from templates already made by somebody else.

So please, feel free to use the templates you find, or create your own.

I'll be using this blog to post about the things I'm working on, any new additions to the site and anything else I think of. I'm hoping to add a few tutorials on creating content, so please, if you have any suggestions, leave a comment :)

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I've just completed 2 new elements for use within the advanced template workshop: The Toggle Element and the Rich Text Formatting Box. I was working on these elements for another project, but thought I would release them for Widgely too.

Toggle Element

The toggle element works like a checkbox. It has 2 states, on or off. Clicking the element will toggle it to its opposite state. Ive made the toggle box use the background-image setting as the image it will show when toggled on, so you can make it look like anything by just providing an image for it. At the moment toggle elements cannot be linked, but in the future I will be adding code to enable linking toggle boxes together. This will make them work more radio buttons.

Rich Text Formatting Box

A Rich Text Formatting Box allows you to add text to a template that cannot be edited from within the document created from it. Unlike the current formatting element, this new one will allow multi-line rich text so that template creators can add richer text areas to their templates.

I've just finished programming multi-page functionality into the templates and documents produced through Widgely. This is a something that I've enabled because of other projects that are sharing the Widgely code-base, and I thought I'd allow Widgely to use too.

One of the things I wanted to achieve when creating Widgely was to build a code-base that is easy to expand and also to copy. I've always wanted it so that I could easily make another site and have it share the majority of the code thats already been written. I've spent the past week or so testing and fixing the base code to enable this.

Multi-page templates

When creating a template using the advanced workshop, there is now the ability to add extra pages to it. Each extra page is basically a new template, allowing you to do anything that you could normally do when editing one.

When creating a document from the template, the user can change pages when editing or viewing the document. On downloading the document as a PDF, all the pages will be downloaded.

I spent a little time a weekend ago making some new borders and decoration images that can be used in the templates and documents. I wanted to make a range of borders that could have decorations placed in the corners so came up with a design that includes some square areas protruding from the corner. I made a Reading Camp Survivor template with this that has different book decorations in the corners - though these can be changed to any of the decorations in the system.


These are just a couple of the new decorations that I added too. There is also a red covered book, and images of the books flipped around. I wanted to add some more sport images as well, and spent some time on this Tennis Racket one. I actually made this on so that the strings are transparent .. so any images behind this one will be seen through the strings. I'll be writing up a tutorial soon on how I make these images. Widgely.com allows any user to upload their own images to create templates or use them in other peoples templates. This means you can make a huge range of documents, but it also means you have complete control of how you want your templates to look. We support 24-bit transparent PNG images across all of the major browsers (including IE6) so that your templates that use them look good on all the browsers.

If anyone has suggestions about images they would like to see, please leave a comment and I'll see what I can do

Make your own certificate from one of the templates below. They are fully customizable, so you can make any type of printable school award certificates and sport award certificates. You can change most frames and other images. Click on any text to change it to whatever you want.

These are really simple to use. Just click on one of the images below to open up the award editor, then click on the text and images to choose your own. When you have finished you can download the award certificates as a PDF file which will print much nicer than the web browser.

Click on an image below to create your own Printable Certificate

Certificate of Appreciation	Sporting Achievement Award
An award certificate with a nice graphic on the left. Click to change the left graphic, the Title and most of the other words. Use this template for school award certificates .. just change the text to whatever you need it to be.	Sports award certificates like this can be used for any type of sports certificate. I've supplied a basketball, soccer ball and baseball image that you can use on the medal, or you can upload your own image to place there.
The 'World's Best'	Certificate of Excellence
The World's Best Mum, the World's Best Wife ... change this to whatever you want. Click on the border to choose a different one. Click on the text to make it your own.	An employee award for excellence. Change the text, border, add your own company logo.
Great Achievement Certificate	Reading Camp Survivor
An award for any sport celebrating a great achievement. Click the medal to change to a different one, or choose any decoration at all.	This template has a border with images in the corners. The theme is Reading Camp - but you can change the images to anything you like. The text is also fully customizable. Just click and change.

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In the future I'll be creating more Sports award certificates, and other school award certificates. If there is any specific award certificates that you would like, please leave me a comment in the box below and I'll try to make a template that suits