Comments on: Showcase: Social Media Buttons

By: diseno-web

diseno-web — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:52:23 +0000

Wow, this is a long one but quite interesting I must say. Digg it!

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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:48:20 +0000

[...] should make the social media buttons visually appealing too. For inspiration: I’ve written a Showcase of Social Media Buttons. Some good [...]

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By: Leonaut.com

Leonaut.com — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:34:35 +0000

Showcase: Social Media Buttons…

It can be boring, standard ’share this’ widgets on every blog. Luckily there are some designers who did a better job. 29 creative examples….

By: Fabian

Fabian — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:01:48 +0000

@Spence, thank you :). You’re right. A huge percentage of the traffic of major blogs comes from social bookmarking websites. And therefore you first need to get them to the frontpage.

@Emily, You’re definitely right about del.icio.us, but digg or designfloat is another story, if you would ask me. When I browse websites, i don’t regularly go to digg to vote for a website, but when I see a button, I’m happy to click when it is a good article. It’s about providing the user a simple way to give kudos to an article they like. I’m glad this article helped you (a bit )

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:29:55 +0000

Nice showcase …

I’ve been on the fence about adding these “buttons” to my own blog (still in development), because I believe that active users of these social media sites already have a “workflow” of their own for adding/saving posts. For example, I use Delicious all day, but I’ve never used a button on a site; I use the Delicious toolbar for Firefox.

Yet, after seeing some of these examples and how they can look clean, unobtrusive and still provide the needed visual cue, I think I will be adding them to my blog.

Thanks!

By: Spence

Spence — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:05:17 +0000

Great list, Getting these buttons to stick out, especially in the case of WebDesignerWall, is growing increasingly important for bloggers.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:47:50 +0000

@Lachy, haha Maybe I should have written some text next to the last examples too.

@Rose, thanks

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:23:51 +0000

Thanks for this collection. It’ll inspire me for the next project.

By: Lachy

Lachy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:09:38 +0000

I wasn’t really sure when this post ended: Each bit looked like the end with the social buttons and comment count