Countdown Widget Help

[Cassandra]

I am trying to figure out how to get a countdown widget for my blog for the release of my novel Walking in the Shadows. I am trying to find one free, and I want it to have a picture on it...Any help?
I appreciate it!

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[Lisarenee]

Hey Cassandra, I was looking for a nice count down widget a while back that was for free and couldn't find one, so I improvised. I'm not that familiar with Wordpress, but we can add gadgets to blogger. What I did was create something that looked like a widget using the gadget that allowed html.

First I downloaded the cover I wanted to use to www.photobucket.com (a free online picture storing site) so I could copy the html for the cover into the gadget. Then I went to www.freecountdown.net and created a very generic looking countdown ticker. I staggered the cover html over the countdown html, played with the sizes to get them to fit and viola! I had my own free countdown widget. It may not be as fancy as some of the others, but it's free.

Hopefully that all makes sense and your familiar with how photobucket works. If anyone knows of a better free way I'd love to hear it.

[L.j.]

Got mine from here...http://mycountdown.org/Special_Day/Pa...

I use blogger though

[The Scarecrow]

I don't know if you're still looking for help, but you get great countdown widgets at http://mycountdown.org and they're free, too. You can adjust background colours, text colour, size of widget (it took me AGES to find a widget that did that!) and it's interactive, which is pretty sweet.

I've used it on my blog (http://www.elleliterate.com) if you want to have a look, but it's pretty good so I recommend it.

:D

[Ravenous]

Cassandra your problem is the wordpress.com Wordpress.com sites does not allow java script which is required for countdown widgets to use. It is a safety issue as wordpress creators can cut down dangerous threats to a web site/page immensely.

Wordpress.com users generally build on wordpress.com knowing that they will eventually transfer over to a wordpress.org site. That is the key difference in DOTcom and DOTorg. DOTorg is a platform in which you build your website from the ground up, which building wise looks and feels very much like DOTcom but the possibilities are endless, but you have to find a hosting service (aka self host). DOTcom is a free service so what a person can do there is greatly reduced, including eliminating javascript, thus no countdown widget for a wordpress.com site.

Hope that helps.

[Ravenous]

And I just realized this is an old thread... oh wells I leave my answer up just in case anyone else who is curious stumbles upon it.