Improving the portlets

There is vast scope for improving all of the portlets. Here are some of the ideas to get you started:

  • Use cookies to maintain the state of portlet positions so that positions of portlets remain intact even after the page loads
  • Implement other sharing buttons like Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and so on
  • Put a text box in the Flickr portlet and search for the API using user-entered tags
  • In reddit portlet, display thumbnails of images in dialog
  • Display the comments of a reddit post in a dialog
  • In the weather portlet, allow users to enter cities
  • Open Google Maps in-place in the weather portlet
  • In the images portlet, instead of using a hardcoded images, pull the information from the database

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