We have come a long way since the start of this book and this is the final step of our journey. We have covered almost all the jQuery UI components in previous chapters. In this chapter, we will relax and create a simple dashboard with five portlets. Each of these portlets will have a widget inside them and we will use different APIs to display content inside each of them. The five portlets will be sortable as well, and you will be able to change their positions by dragging them.
The portlets that we will create are as follows:
Share buttons: We will place sharing buttons for various social media sites. Clicking any of these buttons will share the page on that social media site.
Displaying pictures using the Flickr API: We will search the Flickr API using a tag name and display image thumbnails and their titles. Clicking on a thumbnail will show the image in a dialog box.
Weather widget: This is a widget where we will display a dropdown of...