How to Add Sexy Social Bookmarking To a Blogger Blog

To add the social bookmarking icons like in the screenshot above (you can also see it in action at the bottom of this post), all you need to do is add some CSS and HTML to your Blogger blog. For Wordpress blogs, there is a plugin for this.

To add it to your Blogger (blogspot.com) template:

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and search for the following piece of code: "]]></b:skin>" and paste the following code right before it:

div.sexy-bookmarks {
height:54px;
background:url('http://www.netupd8.com/w8img/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat left top;
position:relative;
width:540px;
}

div.sexy-bookmarks span.sexy-rightside {
width:17px;
height:54px;
background:url('http://www.netupd8.com/w8img/2ueii3t.png') no-repeat right top;
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('http://www.netupd8.com/w8img/21ndq48.jpg') 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;
}

2. Check "Expand Widget Templates" and search for the following tag in your template: <data:post.body/> and paste the below code right after it:

  <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<br/>
<div class='sexy-bookmarks'>
<ul class='socials'>
<li class='sexy-delicious'><a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='del.icio.us'/></li>

<li class='sexy-digg'><a expr:href='" http://digg.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Digg'/></li>

<li class='sexy-technorati'><a expr:href='" http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Technorati'/></li>

<li class='sexy-reddit'><a expr:href='" http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Reddit'/></li>

<li class='sexy-stumble'><a expr:href='" http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Stumbleupon'/></li>

<li class='sexy-designfloat'><a expr:href='"http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Designfloat'/></li>

<li class='sexy-facebook'><a expr:href='" http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Facebook'/></li>

<li class='sexy-twitter'><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://bigtweet.com/ext/bigt/bigt.js');document.body.appendChild(e)})())" /></li>

<li class='sexy-furl'><a expr:href='" http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Furl'/></li>

<li class='sexy-syndicate'><a href='http://feeds2.feedburner.com/webupd8' rel='nofollow' title='Subscribe to RSS'/></li>

<li class='sexy-email'><a expr:href='" mailto:?subject=" + data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Email this'/></li>

</ul>
<span class='sexy-rightside'/></div>
</b:if>

If the above code gives you an error, try it from this location.

This will make the Sexy Bookmarks only show up on the posts page, and will not be visible on the main page. It also uses a cool effect for the Twitter button.