Help with creating a widget

[MarieHaynes]

I would like to create a widget that I can give to other website owners to place on their blog.  Obviously the point of doing this is to get backlinks.  The widget is a simple calculator.  (Think of it like a mortgage calculator).

I see that there are two ways of creating widgets:

1. Javascript

2. Iframe

I've been reading this excellent tutorial on building a widget using javascript and jquery:http://alexmarandon.com/articles/web_widget_jquery/.  However, with my limited knowledge of javascript it's going over my head.

I understand that if I offer a widget that is in an iframe that the links don't get counted as backlinks, but rather as links from my own site.  But, what if I offered code like this:

<iframe src="http://www.mysite.com" width="300" height="250"></iframe>

This tool was provided by MySite

Would that be helpful to me?

[john4math]

What you've got there looks good to me!  The iframe method is what you want to do for the widget.  I'd be wary of trying to load additional Javascript on other people's web pages.  The physical link ends up on their page, so it should count.

Note that by putting the link on their page, all their CSS is going to get applied to it, so the

and <a>tags might not look the same from site to site, but it should be consistent with the style of the page they place it on.  If you want the text and link to stand out a bit, you could add your own styling to the text (specifying color, size, font-family, hover, etc).</a>

<a></a>

<a>And if you'll allow me to nitpick, I'd say "is provided", and put a period between the</a> and

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[MarieHaynes]

Thank you!