How to implement your own social media buttons
Nowadays you will hardly find a website without it. What is it what I’m taling about? Did you already guess it? I mean Like buttons, Share buttons, Like counter, avatars, etc. – if you look at today’s network landscape, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time before all that fancy stuff.
And that’s why I want to show you today how to install functionalities like Facebook’s share button, Twitter’s tweet button and counter, as well as Gravatar’s user-image service. In the following tutorial you will learn how to implement these functionalities into your website.
I deliberately say “functionality” because I do not want to show you how to use the finished and standardised components, but how to address the core functionality, so you can afterwards operate quite freely, for example in the design of the […]
Today the new week started, so there has to be a new article in my “Best of Web” series. Although I reached my selfmade aim (to post an Best of Web article on every monday) again this week, it is, jast as the last few times also, late in the evening. So maybe I should better announce my series as follows: “Best of the Web is a weekly series of articles, which will be, if at all, published in the night from Monday to Tuesday.” Anyway – Monday is Monday and so it goes to the next round.
Among the first 1000 commenters here on the blog, I will give away 10 brand-new iPhone 5S *. To enter the contest you have only two thing to do. Write a comment below this article and like my Facebook page. In the next hours I also will post two more tasks on Facebook which will raise your chance to win one of the iPhones. The first task will be: “Like this, if you ever had a cold.” and finally the second upcoming task will be a survey with the following question: “If you are a men, like this – if you are a woman share this”. And always stay tuned because next month I will give away even 100 MacBook Pros*. And so it goes with the social media, am I right?
Anyone who has ever worked with Microsoft’s Visual Studio, will know and love Intellisense. When writing source code the auto-completion feature does a good piece of work for you. Now the good news! If you are rather a fan of writing your code in a more lightweight editor like Notepad++, you don’t have to completely give up the autocomplete support.
