Hi, thanks for stopping by the widgely blog :)

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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One of the goals I had when creating widgely.com, was to make a place where I could store a document and get to it anywhere there was an internet connection. I knew of the document storage sites on the 'net and initially thought I should just use one of them. However, I wanted something else too, not just a place to store my documents, but also a place I could edit them online, and they would look good. I don't just mean like a nicely formatted word doc, but something cool, with background images, decorations and formatting that worked across the most popular browsers, images with drop shadows, opacity and fades .... I also wanted it easy for anyone to create a document with their own information, so I could send a template to my friends and they could easily create something that looked great in a few minutes.

So, after several months of thinking and planning I came up with the following goals for a web site:

• Allow people to create great looking templates that render the same (or as close as possible) across the 3 major browser (Firefox, IE 7 and IE 6).


• Make creating content from a template as simple as clicking and typing, just like filling in a form.


• Enable content made from templates to be easily embedded in existing websites.


• Allow easy sharing of templates and the content made with them.


• Content made from templates should print out better than what current browsers could do with a webpage.


• Give template designers a way to make graphically advanced templates with features like opacity and layering, that will not be too difficult for someone with moderate skills in a program like Fireworks.


• Make it fun and easy to use!

It's still a work in progress, with some of these not even started yet (such as the printing), but I feel that I'm getting there. I hope that you'll come along for the ride ...but mostly, I hope that you'll have fun if you do