How to add the Sharing is sexy social bookmark buttons to your blog

The most eye catching set of social bookmarking buttons i have seen are the 'Sharing Is Sexy' buttons.These buttons are embedded below your posts and have an animated effect when a user hovers their mouse over a button it pops up ready for your content to be shared.Social bookmarking is a vital too in promoting your blog as i covered in a previous postThis tutorial is a bit harder with plenty of code to be added so make sure to back up your template to see how use the link at the top of the post.

Important !

The code for this gadget no longer works as the image host no longer hosts the images.You can get the updated working version by following this link - V2 Sharing is sexy Bookmarks.

Social bookmarking is a vital too in promoting your blog as i covered in a previous post This tutorial is a bit harder with plenty of code to be added so make sure to back up your template to see how use the link at the top of the post.

Here's how the buttons look as you see they appear just above Author and Labels

Preview.

New : I have just added the same bookmarking buttons with the message 'Sharing is caring' in place of Sharing is sexy you can see a preview below, to get that set Click Here.

The buttons contained in the set for your readers to share your posts are for the most popular bookmarking websites :

►Delicious►Digg►Technorati►Reddit►Stumbleupon►Designflost►Facebook►Twitter►Furl

The also contain a Rss feed link and an Email link.

Here's the steps to add the code to your blog:

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Code No Longer Works Go To This Post - V2 Sharing is sexy Bookmarks.
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1. Click 'Layout'--> 'Edit html' for your blog
(Tick the 'Expand widget templates' box)

2. Find this piece of code in your blogs html:

3. Now add the code below Directly BEFORE




4. Now find This piece of code in your blogs html :

5. Add the code below Directly AFTER

Get This

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Now there is just one piece of the code you must change:

Were you see ADD YOUR FEEDBURNER FEED URL HERE

Replace with your feedburner feed

Example : http://feeds.feedburner.com/Spiceupyourblog

Click here if you Don't have a feedburner don't know what it is.

Once you have add your feed URL click save and the buttons have been added.

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