Live 365 has come out with a super spiffy cool widget that you can post on your website or blog that can be edited to include only those stations which you specify (i.e., those which are currently playing your music). This widget will list the stations playing your music and then launch the station of the visitor’s choice in a separate window (so they don’t leave your website). Here’s how to create your own:
For my example, I’ll use Ithaca-based singer-songwriter Patti Witten. First, go to http://www.live365.com/index.live
Enter your name, or the name of your band in quotation marks in the search box:
After you hit enter, you’ll go to a page like this that lists all the stations playing your music:
After this page loads, and you look for your name, to be sure that the search results are returning you and your muic, click on the green “Get Widget” button. You’ll be taken to a page that looks like this:
From here, all you have to do is set your background color/display preferences, or find a background image that you like. Click the button that generates your code, copy it to your clipboard and then add it to your website or blog. Simple, effective and targeted. In addition, because it is based on a database query, the widget should keep itself automatically updated – every time it loads, it searches the live365 database and pulls only those stations with your music currently in rotation. Just for fun, I’ve posted the widget I just created below:
