dms Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Is there a good resource to where I could just copy/paste some code into a webpage that would have several links to the main social networks that's up to date that I might understand - JS isn't my cup of tea. I have some code a customer sent me that they found and ask me to include it into their site. I have no idea if it's up to date. The code comes from addthis-dot-com and it seems to work, but I have no idea on how to style it and it may be outdated as far as I know. Can someone please explain to me the best practices when adding links to social networks. Thanks <!-- ****** AddThis Button BEGIN ***** --> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style"> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><br /> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><br /> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><br /> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><br /> <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a><br /> <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a><br /> </div> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src=" http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-4fb7fcc0047d61bd "></script> <!-- AddThis Button END --> <!-- ******* AddThis Follow BEGIN ***** --> <p>Follow Us</p> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_32x32_style addthis_default_style"> <a class="addthis_button_facebook_follow" addthis:userid="EEstates"></a> <a class="addthis_button_twitter_follow" addthis:userid="EEstates"></a> <a class="addthis_button_linkedin_follow" addthis:userid="lisamanzi"></a> <a class="addthis_button_google_follow" addthis:userid="/u/0/105440859768423451795/about"></a> <a class="addthis_button_pinterest_follow" addthis:userid="eestates/"></a> </div> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 As far as I understand this, usually you don't style these sort of social network plugins -- they handle that for you. If you want to check whether it is using the most recent version of the code, you'd need to check their website. I don't believe there are really any "best practices" for this sort of thing. You just implement whatever code the service you are using provides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dms Posted June 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) After further review, I realize that I needed to upload the code to a live server before the button from the posted code came to life. I was just viewing the page on my computer within FF. addthis seems to be a pretty nice "sharing platform". I just need to figure out how to float the divs and then I'm good to go. Ben, thanks for your reply. Edited June 6, 2012 by dms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croptech Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Long I was wondering how to implement / copy the social cell, mashable.com. Everything seemed fine, until I looked at the page source output. It is one thing that I always do before adding the plugin and I would suggest to anyone that this is a habit to look for the output plug-ins before you add it to your live site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainusa Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 (edited) As per my view, Addthis is really effective code provider for social plug-in on the website. There are lots of websites include this code stream because of its easy access and great Java script system. This social media plug-in also requires less space and few loading time period. These all reasons seem that you have to be continuing with this service provider. Edited September 10, 2012 by brainusa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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