Add AutoHiding Social Bookmarking Widget To Your Blog
As already discussed here in this blog, social networking buttons widget is a must for blogs and moreover you must be very creative while adding these buttons.
To make your work easier, here's an attractive bookmarking widget, that by default partially hides the buttons and shows them only when a visitor hovers his mouse-cursor over the icons.
Screen-Shot:
So have a look on this widget, designed by Eight7Teen [Live Demo]
To add this widget to your blog, follow these instructions:
Step 1:
Log in to Blogger, go to Layout -> Edit HTML and mark the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
Step 2:
Now find (CTRL+F) this in the code:
</head>
And immediately BEFORE/ABOVE it, paste this code:
<!--HIDDEN-BOOKMARKS-STARTS-->
<style type='text/css'>
div.beauty-bookmarks {
height:54px;
background:url('http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat left bottom;
position:relative;
width:540px;
}
div.beauty-bookmarks span.beauty-rightside {
width:17px;
height:54px;
background:url('http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat right bottom;
position:absolute;
right:-17px;
}
div.beauty-bookmarks ul.socials {
margin:0 !important;
padding:0 !important;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
left:10px;
}
div.beauty-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.beauty-bookmarks ul.socials a {
display:block !important;
width:48px !important;
height:29px !important;
font-size:0 !important;
color:transparent !important;
}
.beauty-furl, .beauty-furl:hover, .beauty-digg, .beauty-digg:hover, .beauty-reddit, .beauty-reddit:hover, .beauty-stumble, .beauty-stumble:hover, .beauty-delicious, .beauty-delicious:hover, .beauty-yahoo, .beauty-yahoo:hover, .beauty-blinklist, .beauty-blinklist:hover, .beauty-technorati, .beauty-technorati:hover, .beauty-facebook, .beauty-facebook:hover, .beauty-twitter, .beauty-twitter:hover, .beauty-myspace, .beauty-myspace:hover, .beauty-mixx, .beauty-mixx:hover, .beauty-script-style, .beauty-script-style:hover, .beauty-designfloat, .beauty-designfloat:hover, .beauty-syndicate, .beauty-syndicate:hover, .beauty-email, .beauty-email:hover {
background:url('http://i44.tinypic.com/1znbj83.png') no-repeat !important;
}
.beauty-furl {
background-position:-300px top !important;
}
.beauty-furl:hover {
background-position:-300px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-digg {
background-position:-500px top !important;
}
.beauty-digg:hover {
background-position:-500px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-reddit {
background-position:-100px top !important;
}
.beauty-reddit:hover {
background-position:-100px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-stumble {
background-position:-50px top !important;
}
.beauty-stumble:hover {
background-position:-50px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-delicious {
background-position:left top !important;
}
.beauty-delicious:hover {
background-position:left bottom !important;
}
.beauty-yahoo {
background-position:-650px top !important;
}
.beauty-yahoo:hover {
background-position:-650px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-blinklist {
background-position:-600px top !important;
}
.beauty-blinklist:hover {
background-position:-600px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-technorati {
background-position:-700px top !important;
}
.beauty-technorati:hover {
background-position:-700px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-myspace {
background-position:-200px top !important;
}
.beauty-myspace:hover {
background-position:-200px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-twitter {
background-position:-350px top !important;
}
.beauty-twitter:hover {
background-position:-350px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-facebook {
background-position:-450px top !important;
}
.beauty-facebook:hover {
background-position:-450px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-mixx {
background-position:-250px top !important;
}
.beauty-mixx:hover {
background-position:-250px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-script-style {
background-position:-400px top !important;
}
.beauty-script-style:hover {
background-position:-400px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-designfloat {
background-position:-550px top !important;
}
.beauty-designfloat:hover {
background-position:-550px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-syndicate {
background-position:-150px top !important;
}
.beauty-syndicate:hover {
background-position:-150px bottom !important;
}
.beauty-email {
background-position:-753px top !important;
}
.beauty-email:hover {
background-position:-753px bottom !important;
}
</style>
<!--HIDDEN-BOOKMARKS-STOPS-http://bloggerstop.net-->
Step 3:
Now find this in the code:
<data:post.body/>
And BELOW/AFTER that, paste this code:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div class='beauty-bookmarks'>
<ul class='socials'>
<li class='beauty-delicious'><a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-digg'><a expr:href='" http://digg.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-technorati'><a expr:href='" http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-reddit'><a expr:href='" http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-stumble'><a expr:href='" http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-designfloat'><a expr:href='"http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-facebook'><a expr:href='" http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-twitter'><a expr:href='" http://twitthis.com/twit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-furl'><a expr:href='" http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
<li class='beauty-syndicate'><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/bloggerstopnet' title='Subscribe to RSS'/></li>
<li class='beauty-email'><a expr:href='" mailto:?subject=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'/></li>
</ul>
<span class='beauty-rightside'/></div>
</b:if>
You may of course remove any button code, if you do not want to show it.
Now save the template.
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