Then I might have just the thing for you!
I have written a handy little bit of JavaScript that you can include on any of your Web pages, online articles and blog entries - which allows you or your users to easily share the content via popular share sites such as Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, Furl, NowPublic and Yahoo MyWeb.
I guess the best way to demo this is via an example. If you care to browse to:
http://www.matthewkerry.com/links.html and scroll to the bottom of the page you will see a list of links, starting with "Did you enjoy this article?" to the sites above. This is what I call my
ShareBar. You can include the ShareBar on any of your pages by simply copying and pasting in the following code
HTML Code:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
digg = "";
reddit = "";
nowpublic = "";
intro = "Did you enjoy this article?";
text_color = "red";
link_color = "#000000";
text_font = "verdana";
link_font = "arial";
text_size = "11px";
link_size = "12px";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.matthewkerry.com/sharebar/sb.js">
</script>
The code above will present five text links on your page, allowing users to submit the page to the particular site. However, if you are like me, and you enjoy promoting your own content on sites like Digg, you can change the above values - and take your user straight to your article, on Digg, so they can "Digg It".
Using the same page as an example - I can used this line in the code aboev:
digg = "http://digg.com/programming/I_am_here_today_to_dispel_the_myth_of_reciprocal_l inks";
Which will take the user straight to Digg and to my entry (which you'll see is 80-odd days old!)
You can also edit any of the other values in order to full customise the look and feel of the ShareBar.
There is nothing to download, you simply include the code above on a page where you want the ShareBar to appear - and it's completely free! I have tried in on several types of Web page and it works fine, although I have had some issues getting it to appear on a WordPress blog.
Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated - this is the first place I have shared it publicly, so you lot are my guinea pigs!
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