Sexy Share Plug-in or Widget for Blogger Blogs

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You might have noticed a bookmarking or sharing bar that looked something like the figure below:

Yes this is Sharing is Sexy bookmarking and sharing plugin. Its mouseOver effect and cool design made it attractive for bloggers to implement. WordPress users are always lucky enough when new plug-ins and widgets are required, but now blogger platform too is not lagging behind. I’ll show you how to implement it for your blogger blog. Did you notice this widget on my blog ICT Trends too? Its in blogger platform.

Before we start talking about how to implement in blogger platform, I’d like to refer to Ms. Ileane’s Video if you are looking for WordPress blog.

How to apply Sharing is Sexy Plug-in for Blogger Blogs?

This is CSS based implementation. It consists of two parts.One is style-sheet definitions and another is html code. Thus to install Sharing is Sexy Plug-in you need to edit the HTML of your template. Find here the easy steps.

1. Log on to your blogger account and go to Layout >> Edit HTML
   
   

2. Remember to Enable Expand Widget Template check box and paste following code before </head> tag

<!– Sharing is Sexy –> <style type=’text/css’> div.sexy-bookmarks { height:54px; background:url(&#39;http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png&#39;) no-repeat left bottom; position:relative; width:540px; } div.sexy-bookmarks span.sexy-rightside { width:17px; height:54px; background:url(&#39;http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png&#39;) no-repeat right bottom; position:absolute; right:-17px; } div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials { margin:0 !important; padding:0 !important; position:absolute; bottom:0; left:10px; } div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li { display:inline-block !important; float:left !important; list-style-type:none !important; margin:0 !important; height:29px !important; width:48px !important; cursor:pointer !important; padding:0 !important; } div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials a { display:block !important; width:48px !important; height:29px !important; font-size:0 !important; color:transparent !important; } .sexy-furl, .sexy-furl:hover, .sexy-digg, .sexy-digg:hover, .sexy-reddit, .sexy-reddit:hover, .sexy-stumble, .sexy-stumble:hover, .sexy-delicious, .sexy-delicious:hover, .sexy-yahoo, .sexy-yahoo:hover, .sexy-blinklist, .sexy-blinklist:hover, .sexy-technorati, .sexy-technorati:hover, .sexy-facebook, .sexy-facebook:hover, .sexy-twitter, .sexy-twitter:hover, .sexy-myspace, .sexy-myspace:hover, .sexy-mixx, .sexy-mixx:hover, .sexy-script-style, .sexy-script-style:hover, .sexy-designfloat, .sexy-designfloat:hover, .sexy-syndicate, .sexy-syndicate:hover, .sexy-email, .sexy-email:hover { background:url(&#39;http://i44.tinypic.com/1znbj83.png&#39;) no-repeat !important; } .sexy-furl { background-position:-300px top !important; } .sexy-furl:hover { background-position:-300px bottom !important; } .sexy-digg { background-position:-500px top !important; } .sexy-digg:hover { background-position:-500px bottom !important; } .sexy-reddit { background-position:-100px top !important; } .sexy-reddit:hover { background-position:-100px bottom !important; } .sexy-stumble { background-position:-50px top !important; } .sexy-stumble:hover { background-position:-50px bottom !important; } .sexy-delicious { background-position:left top !important; } .sexy-delicious:hover { background-position:left bottom !important; } .sexy-yahoo { background-position:-650px top !important; } .sexy-yahoo:hover { background-position:-650px bottom !important; } .sexy-blinklist { background-position:-600px top !important; } .sexy-blinklist:hover { background-position:-600px bottom !important; } .sexy-technorati { background-position:-700px top !important; } .sexy-technorati:hover { background-position:-700px bottom !important; } .sexy-myspace { background-position:-200px top !important; } .sexy-myspace:hover { background-position:-200px bottom !important; } .sexy-twitter { background-position:-350px top !important; } .sexy-twitter:hover { background-position:-350px bottom !important; } .sexy-facebook { background-position:-450px top !important; } .sexy-facebook:hover { background-position:-450px bottom !important; } .sexy-mixx { background-position:-250px top !important; } .sexy-mixx:hover { background-position:-250px bottom !important; } .sexy-script-style { background-position:-400px top !important; } .sexy-script-style:hover { background-position:-400px bottom !important; } .sexy-designfloat { background-position:-550px top !important; } .sexy-designfloat:hover { background-position:-550px bottom !important; } .sexy-syndicate { background-position:-150px top !important; } .sexy-syndicate:hover { background-position:-150px bottom !important; } .sexy-email { background-position:-753px top !important; } .sexy-email:hover { background-position:-753px bottom !important; } </style> <!– /Sharing is Sexy –>   

3. Good! Now search for <data:post.body/> and paste following code just below it.

<!– Sharing is sexy –> <div class=’sexy-bookmarks’><ul class=’socials’><li class=’sexy-delicious’><a expr:href=’&quot;http://del.icio.us/post?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Add to Delicious’/></li> <li class=’sexy-digg’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://digg.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Digg This Post’/></li> <li class=’sexy-technorati’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://technorati.com/faves?add=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Add to Technorati’/></li> <li class=’sexy-reddit’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Add to Reddit’/></li> <li class=’sexy-stumble’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Stumble This Post’/></li> <li class=’sexy-designfloat’><a expr:href=’&quot;http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Share on DesignFloat’/></li> <li class=’sexy-facebook’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Share on Facebook’/></li> <li class=’sexy-twitter’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://twitthis.com/twit?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Share on Twitter’/></li> <li class=’sexy-furl’><a expr:href=’&quot; http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Share on Furl’/></li> <li class=’sexy-syndicate’><a href=’http://www.icttrends.com/feeds/posts/default‘ rel=’nofollow’ title=’Subscribe to RSS’/></li> <li class=’sexy-email’><a expr:href=’&quot; mailto:?subject=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title’ rel=’nofollow’ target=’_blank’ title=’Share on Email’/></li> </ul><span class=’sexy-rightside’/></div> <!– /Sharing is sexy –>

4. I copied these code directly from my template and pasted them here. So you should change the feed URL with your own feed. Look at the text with blue color. It is the Feed URL.
   
5. Great! Now save your template and you are done! Enjoying Sexy Sharing!