Sprout Builder: My life as a widget

Sprout is a free online service that lets you construct your own widgets. Widget construction is done in a development environment called "Sprout Builder," which provides extensive layout tools and templates. Using Sprout Builder you can create pages and add media assets, including video, audio, and images. Media assets can be uploaded to your Sprout account, or accessed via links to other sites such as YouTube. Sprout also allows you to add RSS feeds to your widgets' pages. So you can think of each Sprout widget as a multi-page mini website in which you can navigate among the pages.

You got video? Put it in a widget. You got a blog? Put it in a widget. You got photos? Put them in a widget. You got a life? Put it in a widget. Not a videographer, author, or photographer? No problem. There is plenty of public domain content on the web that you can use. Here is a Sprout widget I constructed with public domain photographs and video about World War I aircraft.




I used this widget to enhance my WhyPark Pursuit Squadron website:

www.PursuitSquadron.com

Below is an image of the Sprout Builder widget development environment. It takes a little time to figure out because it offers so many features. I'm not sure how often I'll be using Sprout, but it is nice to know that it is available.