Brightening Up Promote This
I really like Byrne's plugin Promote This, but text links are a little boring. Sure, they are functional, but a bit of eye candy can give a site some lift.
If you want to "jazz it up" a small bit you could add some icons to replace the plain text links.
Fasticon have a set of 12 icons in different sizes that cover most of the services that you could probably want, though I'm sure there are other sources out there.
The first thing you need to do is upload the images to your server. In my case I placed them in the "images" directory, as this was logical in my mind.
The icon set offers a range of different sizes, but I chose to use the 24 x 24 ones, as they are big enough to see but not too big that they take over the screen
You then need to go into your templates and make a minor change to each PromoteThis link that you are using.
In my case I'm only using two, as I don't believe in overloading people with too many links and icons at the bottom of a post.
The default link uses this format:
To add the new shiny icons to the code simply swap the text part of the link with the image source ie. "img src":
You can see the new icons in action on this site (hopefully!)
If you want to "jazz it up" a small bit you could add some icons to replace the plain text links.
Fasticon have a set of 12 icons in different sizes that cover most of the services that you could probably want, though I'm sure there are other sources out there.
The first thing you need to do is upload the images to your server. In my case I placed them in the "images" directory, as this was logical in my mind.
The icon set offers a range of different sizes, but I chose to use the 24 x 24 ones, as they are big enough to see but not too big that they take over the screen
You then need to go into your templates and make a minor change to each PromoteThis link that you are using.
In my case I'm only using two, as I don't believe in overloading people with too many links and icons at the bottom of a post.
The default link uses this format:
<a href="<$MTDiggURL$>"digg this</a>
To add the new shiny icons to the code simply swap the text part of the link with the image source ie. "img src":
<a href="<$MTDiggURL$>"><img src="location of your image" width="" height="" alt="" title="" /></a>
You can see the new icons in action on this site (hopefully!)
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