Get The Animated Sharing Is Caring Social Bookmark Set For Your Blog
This tutorial teach you how to add the animated 3D social bookmark set 'Sharing Is Caring' to your blog. The buttons still have an animated effect, they are embedded into the page below every post and when you place your cursor over a button it pops up for a user to share your blog.You can see a demo / sample of the buttons on my demo blog Click Here.
Not sure about Social Bookmarking ? Social bookmarking can have a huge effect on your blog as i covered in another post How Social Bookmarking Can Help Your Blog.
The buttons contained in the set for your readers to share your posts are for the most popular bookmarking websites :
►Delicious►Digg►Technorati►Reddit►Stumbleupon►Designflost►Facebook►Twitter►Furl
The also contain a RSS feed link and an Email link.
Here is a screenshot :
(You can see i hovered over the twitter icon ant it has popped up)
Before we look at adding the buttons to your blog if you would prefer the 'Sharing Is Sexy' buttons here is what they look like and you can Sharing Is Sexy Bookmarks For Blogger for that tutorial :
Adding the icons to your blog
You need to add a nice chunk of code to your template so make sure to have your template backed up, click the link at the top of the post to see how.
Step 1. Click 'Design' ► 'Edit html' for your blog
(Tick the 'Expand widget templates' box)
Step 2. Find this piece of code in your blogs html:
(Click 'CTRL' and 'F' for a search bar to find the code - Use the 'Extra Help' Link at the top of the post for more info on this)
</head>Step 3. Now add the code below Directly Before / Above </head>
<!--Social Bookmarks Starts-->
<style type='text/css'>
div.sexy-bookmarks {
height:50px;
background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkJvQapbGqEUuvWxfesKXO74sQs8CQiNYTHGN1b2SUPHL3z28Tc50W11-meMMumDsBppQOuzPc7bUhAFUes9OzRjHvY39MzGA_TFFyC11U_7rij6RSwwRs9KOtlw0vH25Gcrtgwd0gKR33/s1600/sharing.png) no-repeat left bottom;
position:relative;
width:450px;
padding-top:10px;
}
div.sexy-bookmarks span.sexy-rightside {
width:17px;
height:58px;
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:0px !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://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn252/cebong_ipit/sprite-1.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>
<!--Social Bookmarks Ends-->
Step 4. Find The following piece of code in your blogs html :
<data:post.body/>Step 6. Add the code below Directly After / Below <data:post.body/>
<!-- Sharing is caring starts -->
<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='http://feeds.feedburner.com/mybloggerplugins' 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></div>
<!-- Sharing is caring ends-->
If you use a custom template or use the read more feature <data:post.body/> May be in your template twice, in that case add the code after the second one.Or place the code after : <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
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