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How to Embed the Widget On Your Site

Embedding the widget into your blog or website is a simple copy-paste effort. Let us assume you want to embed Parallels's widget on your blog. The steps required are:

1. Copy the script HTML to the right.
2. Create/Edit your blog entry.
3. Paste the HTML into your post.

Some blogs don't allow a direct paste of HTML tags so you may need to edit your post in "HTML Mode". Once you've saved you will get a widget that looks like the following:

Pretty simple, huh? But, what if you wanted to change the widget so it looks better on your site or you don't want to display all the information above?

Customize the Widget

You can quickly customize the widget by using our predefined options on the preview page. You can choose to not show the news & discussion lines or not to show all any of the detailed information like Location, Latest Funding, etc. A few, quick checks can give you just the right amount of information you want.

You can futher customize the widget to suit your needs with CSS. CSS brings you the power to change the font, background or layout of our widgets, but we've also made it convenient to hide any elment you want.

As an example we may want to hide the Financial & Market information from the widget. You can accomplish this by adding the following line to you CSS file:

	.vbp-category-financials, .vbp-category-market { display: none; }
  

Now the next time you view our widget it will look like this:

You can follow this example to hide any element you want.

You can certainly do a lot more with CSS to mold the widget to the style you prefer but these quick tips go a long way to making VentureBeat Profiles' information available and convenient to you. Enjoy.