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= How to find a Widget on your favorite website =

Many web 2.0 websites offer an widget you can embed on your own website. Essentially, you are taking a small piece of their website and showing it through the frame of your own website.

Sometimes, the website creation tool will interface directly with the web 2.0 tool. It will prompt you to enter some basic information (for example, a link or your username) and then it will create the link between the two websites automatically.

More often, you'll need to use an ** embed code **. Usually you'll only see the first little bit in a text box:

An entire embed code looks like this:

    

You don't have to know what it means, you'll just copy the whole embed code (keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl + A and then Ctrl + C), and then paste it into an HMTL widget on your website. The website does the rest!

Where to find the embed code
Embedding a widget into a website is a way of // sharing // information or multimedia, so typically the embed code can be found under the ** Share ** option on the web 2.0 website. The ** Share ** option is located in a different place on every website, but you'll get used to looking for it!



Sometimes the web 2.0 website will actually use the word "widget" or "gadget," in which case, your job is easy!

Sometimes they actually use the word "embed."