Blogging Tips Tricks & Hacks

This widget released by Sharethis team was made as a Valentine gift from them. The heart bookmarking gadget has a cool slide out effect that makes the heart icon split each time you mouse hover it, displaying several bookmarking buttons like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Stumble Upon, Email and many more bookmarking choices. This gadget/widget comes with a fixed position and stays in the corner of the page, so it will grab your readers attention and make them share your posts easily.

I'm sure you will love it after seeing the demo of this gadget:

View Demo

Adding The Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget to Blogger

Step 1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard, select Template and click the Edit Html button:

....select the "Expand Widget Templates" box (it is recommended to make a backup first)

Step 2. Find the following tag (Ctrl + F):

</head>

Step 3. Paste above/before the </head> tag, the following code:

<script src='http://w.sharethis.com/gallery/shareegg/shareegg.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>stLight.options({publisher: "ur-98d377f-bdd3-9ad1-fbe5-2a678f0a60ee", onhover:false}); </script>
<link href='http://w.sharethis.com/gallery/shareegg/shareegg.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

Step 4: Now find (CTRL + F) this tag:

</body>

Step 5: Paste above/before </body> tag... the following code:

<div style='position: fixed; bottom: 2%; left: 2%;'>
<div class='shareEgg' id='shareThisShareHeart'/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>stlib.shareEgg.createEgg('shareThisShareHeart', ['facebook','twitter','pinterest','linkedin','stumbleupon','email','sharethis'], {title:' <data:blog.pageTitle/>',url:'<data:blog.url/>',theme:'shareheart'});</script><a href="http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com/">Blogger Gadgets</a>

How To Move The Position Of The Gadget

To move the position of this widget from the bottom right corner of your blog to any location you want, change the percentages of the red code from Step 5.

Step 6. Now preview and Save Template.

Done!

This navigation bar gets semi-transparent when you scroll down the page and is slightly showing up by fading out and becoming almost transparent. When the user hovers over it, the menu becomes opaque again.

Inside of the navigation there are some links, a search input and a top and bottom button that allows the user to navigate to the top or bottom of the page.

-> SEE DEMO <-

Let's start adding it...

1. Go To Blogger - Template - Edit HTML

....and select the "expand widget templated" box:

2. Search (using CTRL + F) for this piece of code:

</head>

3. Just above/before the </head> tag, add this code:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html/[helplogger.blogspot.com]Fixed Fade Out Menu.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html/[helplogger.blogspot.com]jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
            $(function() {
                $(window).scroll(function(){
                    var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
                    if(scrollTop != 0)
                        $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'0.2'},400);
                    else
                        $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'1'},400);
                });

                $('#nav').hover(
                    function (e) {
                        var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
                        if(scrollTop != 0){
                            $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'1'},400);
                        }
                    },
                    function (e) {
                        var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
                        if(scrollTop != 0){
                            $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'0.2'},400);
                        }
                    }
                );
            });
        </script>

4) Now search for this tag:

<body>

If you can't find it, search for this one:

<body expr:class='"loading" + data:blog.mobileClass'>

5) Just below/after this code, copy and paste the following code:

<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a class="top" href="#top"><span></span></a></li>
<li><a class="bottom" href="#bottom"><span></span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 1</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 2</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 3</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 4</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 5</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 6</span></a></li><li class="search">

<input type="text"/><input class="searchbutton" type="submit" value=""/>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="top"></div>
<div class="desc"></div>
<div id="bottom"></div>
<div class="scroll"></div>

Note: Replace URL address with the URL of your pages and Link 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 with the name of the link that will appear in the menu.

6) Now click on the Save Template button and you're done ;)

Credit goes to the original author. This widget was inspired by David Walsh’s top navigation bar.

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