Widgets

It would be good if the iSpecies page & left hand side bar could be standardised into one simplified UI.

Both of these areas have widgets (blocks) that can be added to them. In the case of iSpecies this would be widgets, in the case of the LHS this would be menus / classification blocks.

In the theme layer, classes could be added to regions that were 'widgetised'. An edit link would then be added to the region, clicking which would a) Allow the widgets to be reordered & b) Open a popup where the user can select additional widgets.

Need to define a new hook so other modules can define widgets for those regions (hook needs to be passed as region id).

This module functionality is very abstracted so could then be released to DO for testing. An additional module would then be written defining the Scratchpad widgets themselves.

Not sure if this should plugin to Panels - too much work?

Changing widget settings. The BBC home page settings form is slick - but is now old. Can we build an iPhone / OSX widget type interface - click edit for the widget to flip over to see setting form.