A fellow podcaster, Colin Maddocks, of Nile Cruise Podcast , recently cast an admiring eye over my little Spring Widgets audio player on my site and emailed me to ask how I’d got hold of it.

By the time I could respond to his email, I noticed from his site that he’d gone ahead and found out how to get his very own (and lovely it looks too!).

As Colin obviously found out, it is super easy (and free) to get your hands on your very own audio player from Spring Widgets and embed it on your site. To get yours, follow the instructions below:

• Follow this link, where you’ll see my widget on Spring Widget’s site
• Click on ‘customise widget’ in the top left corner
• Delete my RSS feed and put your own in
• Keep the colour the same or click on ‘border colour’ if you want to change it
• Modify the dimensions if you want to or just keep them the same

You’ll then be give some code which you need to copy and paste into your site (in Typepad do this in a Typelist, in Wordpress make a new text widget). If you’re using a traditional website, ask your web guy to embed it, it’s very quick and easy!

Every time you update your podcast, the Spring Widget is magically notified and will also update (it’s not really magic, it’s the RSS feed you gave it that lets it know).

And that is that.