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

Ive just released the 2 functions I've been spending most of my time on in the last few weeks; PDF download and a Widgely Template Wizard.

Because of the difficulties in printing anything consistently from a web browser, PDF download has always been something I wanted to provide. Now, with any published document you will find a Download button on the view and edit page. Clicking this will open or save the PDF file.

I've tried to replicate the look of the template on the browser as much as I could. However, because of the differences between the browsers, I had to make a choice about which to make the PDF look closest to. Because I work using Firefox, I chose it to base the look upon. There shouldn't be too many differences, but one thing that I've noticed is that Firefox and IE do the border styles differently. So if you chose "outset" or "ridge" border, the PDF output will probably look like Firefox's version of that border.

All of the things that you can do with Widgely should work in the PDF. This includes Image elements, repeating background images, element opacity, Rich Text Element formatting etc. I'll be working on providing extra functionality on this as I develop further.

The Template Wizard grew out of my worries that building Template was too complex. Im not sure if this is the solution, or if it goes much towards making it easier. Some feedback from testers seems to show it IS easier to use. but other things within it have confused them. I expect this to change alot in the future.