Looking to promote your designs? Want to get more invites, jobs and win more contests on DesignCrowd? We'll, as the saying goes, "you have to be in it, to win it". That's why, here at DesignCrowd we offer all designers their very own designer widget. The widget is designed to allow our creative community to promote their fantastic work on their own websites and blogs.

Why Use the Designer Widget?

The DesignCrowd widget is a great tool for designers and here's why

• Easy to use because we create all the HTML code for you, there is no need for you to be a coding genius to use the widget
• Customisable choose which design types, image size, number, color and layout you want
• Realtime the widget automatically connects to your portfolio here on DesignCrowd - so no tedious updating of designs or creative work
• Reach customers the widget allows potential customers to hire/invite you directly from your website or blog on DesignCrowd

How to Use the DesignCrowd Widget

Using the widget is super simple. As long as you have public designs in your DesignCrowd portfolio, the widget can be implemented on any website, including your own business site, blog or portal. To use the widget, simply log into your designer account on DesignCrowd and find "My Widgets" in the left hand menu.

Step 1: Select a Widget Type

There 5 different widget types to choose from - choose the one that best suits your website or blog. Remember, you can preview your widget later on to see how it looks

Available Widget Types

Design Portfolio - Grid View
Design Portfolio - Slider View
Design Portfolio - Large
My Ranking Badge
Performance Stats

Step 2: Customize the Content

This steps allows you to choose the design types to show and the order in which they display. You can choose to show only a certain design type, such as only logo designs, or only t-shirt designs. You can create multiple widgets, if you wanted to promote different design types on different pages of your website. Again, you can preview the widget later on.

Available Design Types

Logo Design
Web Design
Brochure Design
Flyer Design
T-shirt Design
Icon Design
Stationery Design
Wordpress Design

Available Design Order Options

Submission Date
Submission Date (Earliest First)
Money Received
Random

Step 3: Customize the Style

Here, you can now choose how the widget is going to display. You can edit the widget width, the image size for the designs and the number of designs to show.

Widget Width

When defining the widget width, you can specify the dimension in pixels. However, if the field is left blank, the widget defaults to 100% of the container width. In many instances, this will work, however, remember to preview the widget to get a feel of how it will look.

Image Size

Small (100px)
Medium (200px)
Large (400px)
Extra Large (800px)

Number of Designs

You can choose to show anywhere from 3 to 35 designs in the widget.

Step 4: Preview Your Widget

In this step, simply click the button to generate a preview of what your widget would look like. This will give you an indication of how the widget will look on your site and if the options you have chosen above work well for you.

Step 5: Get the Widget on Your Website

Once you're happy with the widget, copy the HTML code and paste it into your blog or personal website.

Step 7: Start Earning Extra Cash!

And that's it! You've just installed the DesignCrowd widget - feel free to create multiple widgets to really promote your work.

Written by Clancy Clarke on Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Clancy is the Organic Search manager at DesignCrowd. Clancy has over 7 years of online marketing experience and a passion for analytics. Get in touch via Google+.