Have you ever submitted a bunch of designs to DesignCrowd and wished they automatically showed up on your personal website? Or maybe you are jumping up our designer rankings and would like to advertise this outside of DesignCrowd? Well we've heard you! Here at the DesignCrowd labs we have been coming up with unique ideas, tools and widgets to assist you in promoting yourself to the rest of the world. As a result, we have come up with a set of `widgets' that not only allow you to display your work to the rest of the world, and also attract and win your own customers through DesignCrowd! Below are 5 examples of the widget at work. If you already have a DesginCrowd portfolio, then check out our Show Us Your Widget! Widget Contest and you could win $200. a) My Ranking Badge Looking to show off your ranking to visitors of your website? Then this is the widget for you. Not only can you customize the look and orientation of the widget, but you can also show a ranking for a specific area (that is, show rankings specific to logo design, web design, brochure design etc).
Ideal for: - Showing your ranking in the header, footer or sidebar of your website
- Tracking your rise in different ranking types
|  | b) Performance Stats This widget is arguably the most profitable widget to have for designers. Not only does it show your performance statistics on DesignCrowd, but customers and visitors that view the widget are pushed to hire you on DesignCrowd.
Ideal for: - Showing detailed stats of your rankings and performance
- Making more money through winning more work and customer invitations
|  | c) Design Portfolio - Grid View Designers can use this widget to present all your portfolio designs in a single grid view (that is, display a grid of your top designs on a single page). Customize the design type shown, the number of designs as well as change what designs are shown (it is directly linked to the portfolios so as you hide/show designs here, they are shown in the grid view).
Ideal for: - Showcasing mutliple designs on a single page
- Demonstrating your versatility
|  | d) Design Portfolio - Slider View This widget gives you the ability to show case all your designs in one neat little sliding package. Using the slider widget, you can showcase numerous of your designs without having to give away large parts of your webpage space.
Ideal for: - Showcasing designs of a particlar type
- Requiring a design gallery feel on your website
|  | e) Design Portfolio - Large This widget gives you the sexiness of the slider widget, with a more detail in your designs. This is important when you want to showcase designs with a lot of detail such as webpage and brochures. These types of designs are harder to make out when shrunk down to a thumbnail.
Ideal for: - You want your designs to be the center focus of your website
- You want your visitor to see full detail of your designs
- Excellent for web pages, brochure, flyers etc.
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Written by DesignCrowd on Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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