The most eye catching set of social bookmarking buttons i have seen are the 'Sharing Is Sexy' buttons.Social bookmarking is a vital too in promoting your blog as i covered in a previous post
This tutorial is a bit harder with plenty of code to be added so make sure to back up your template.
You can see the buttons in action at the foot of all my blog posts.
Heres how the buttons look as you see they appear just above Author and Labels:
The buttons contained in the set for your readers to share your posts are :
Delicious
Digg
Technorati
Stumbleupon
Designflost
Furl
The also contain a
Feed link
Email feed link
Heres the steps to add the code to your blog:
1.Click 'Layout'--> 'Edit html' for your blog
(Tick the 'Expand widget templates' box)
2.Find this piece of code in your blogs html:
</head> 3.Now add the code below directly BEFORE </head>
<style type='text/css'>
div.sexy-bookmarks {
height:54px;
background:url('http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat left bottom;
position:relative;
width:540px;
}
div.sexy-bookmarks span.sexy-rightside {
width:17px;
height:54px;
background:url('http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat right bottom;
position:absolute;
right:-17px;
}
div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials {
margin:0 !important;
padding:0 !important;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:10px;
}
div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li {
display:inline-block !important;
float:left !important;
list-style-type:none !important;
margin:0 !important;
height:29px !important;
width:48px !important;
cursor:pointer !important;
padding:0 !important;
}
div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials a {
display:block !important;
width:48px !important;
height:29px !important;
font-size:0 !important;
color:transparent !important;
}
.sexy-furl, .sexy-furl:hover, .sexy-digg, .sexy-digg:hover, .sexy-reddit, .sexy-reddit:hover, .sexy-stumble, .sexy-stumble:hover, .sexy-delicious, .sexy-delicious:hover, .sexy-yahoo, .sexy-yahoo:hover, .sexy-blinklist, .sexy-blinklist:hover, .sexy-technorati, .sexy-technorati:hover, .sexy-facebook, .sexy-facebook:hover, .sexy-twitter, .sexy-twitter:hover, .sexy-myspace, .sexy-myspace:hover, .sexy-mixx, .sexy-mixx:hover, .sexy-script-style, .sexy-script-style:hover, .sexy-designfloat, .sexy-designfloat:hover, .sexy-syndicate, .sexy-syndicate:hover, .sexy-email, .sexy-email:hover {
background:url('http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/spiceupyourblog/sexybookmarksbuttons.png') no-repeat !important;
}
.sexy-furl {
background-position:-300px top !important;
}
.sexy-furl:hover {
background-position:-300px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-digg {
background-position:-500px top !important;
}
.sexy-digg:hover {
background-position:-500px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-reddit {
background-position:-100px top !important;
}
.sexy-reddit:hover {
background-position:-100px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-stumble {
background-position:-50px top !important;
}
.sexy-stumble:hover {
background-position:-50px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-delicious {
background-position:left top !important;
}
.sexy-delicious:hover {
background-position:left bottom !important;
}
.sexy-yahoo {
background-position:-650px top !important;
}
.sexy-yahoo:hover {
background-position:-650px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-blinklist {
background-position:-600px top !important;
}
.sexy-blinklist:hover {
background-position:-600px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-technorati {
background-position:-700px top !important;
}
.sexy-technorati:hover {
background-position:-700px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-myspace {
background-position:-200px top !important;
}
.sexy-myspace:hover {
background-position:-200px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-twitter {
background-position:-350px top !important;
}
.sexy-twitter:hover {
background-position:-350px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-facebook {
background-position:-450px top !important;
}
.sexy-facebook:hover {
background-position:-450px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-mixx {
background-position:-250px top !important;
}
.sexy-mixx:hover {
background-position:-250px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-script-style {
background-position:-400px top !important;
}
.sexy-script-style:hover {
background-position:-400px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-designfloat {
background-position:-550px top !important;
}
.sexy-designfloat:hover {
background-position:-550px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-syndicate {
background-position:-150px top !important;
}
.sexy-syndicate:hover {
background-position:-150px bottom !important;
}
.sexy-email {
background-position:-753px top !important;
}
.sexy-email:hover {
background-position:-753px bottom !important;
}
</style>
4.Now find This piece of code in your blogs html :
<data:post.body/>5.Add the code below Directly AFTER <data:post.body/>
<div class='sexy-bookmarks'>
<ul class='socials'>
<li class='sexy-delicious'><a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-digg'><a expr:href='" http://digg.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-technorati'><a expr:href='" http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-reddit'><a expr:href='" http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-stumble'><a expr:href='" http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-designfloat'><a expr:href='"http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-facebook'><a expr:href='" http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-twitter'><a expr:href='" http://twitthis.com/twit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-furl'><a expr:href='" http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='sexy-syndicate'><a href='ADD YOUR FEEDBURNER FEED URL HERE' title='Subscribe to RSS'/></li>
<li class='sexy-email'><a expr:href='" mailto:?subject=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
</ul>
<span class='sexy-rightside'/></div>
Now theres just one piece of the code you must change:
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Were you see ADD YOUR FEEDBURNER FEED URL HERE
Replace with your feedburner feed
Example : http://feeds.feedburner.com/Spiceupyourblog
Click here if you Dont have a feedburner dont know what it is.
Once you have add your feed url click save and your done.
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3 comments:
thanks for sharing
It's cool the widget really works for me. Loved your blog. thanks.....
Thanks Suraj,
Glad the buttons worked for you.
Im sure they will look sexy on your blog :)
Paul
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