After looking for well…2 months, I have still not found a good add me as a friend plug-in or button for any major social networks.
I have been looking pretty intensely and even tried making a drop down list (I hated it). So after looking non-stop, I decided to create my own buttons. I wanted to keep them simple but still wanted them to look cool. So I incorporated the logos from each network into the button along with the normal “saying” for that network.
Time To Share Them
Not only did I create them for my blog, but I would love more than anything to share them. I figured it would benefit you as well since a lot of people like to add these to their blogs. So without any more introduction, here are the first three buttons I created:
How To Use Them
Simply right click and save the image as (name it whatever). From there, you can upload them to your website and set them up to link to your profiles.
Looking For Other Networks?
Leave a comment and I can try and put together a button for almost any network. Hey, it’s what I do so no worries…
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They look very nice!
they are great…ever think about smaller dimensions? more square than rectangular?
@ Tiffani: Great idea, I’ll see what I can come up with and share them. Any recommendations for dimensions?
Awesome! now I gotta figure out how 2 link them…hmmm
@TeasasTips: If you want to link them. just use something like this:
< a href="yoururl">< img src="image location" />< /a>
Make sure to take out the spaces before each tag.
Wow, these are hella sweet!
Easily the best add me buttons I’ve seen yet. Added them to my blog and they look real nice.
Thanks for giving these out buddy!
One small suggestion, shouldn’t the technorati button say “fave me on technorati” to follow the theme?
Cool idea.
@ Adam: That is a great idea. I was trying to fit favorite on their but it wouldn’t work. I never though to just put fave.
The updated one is up now.
Nice work on the buttons Justin. You’ve given me some ideas for creating some buttons myself.
If you ever need any help web development/design wise, let me know. I’m employed professionally as a web developer and would love to help out if you ever needed it with your site or anything else.
Dwayne.
http://probablysucks.com/
That’s why they pay me the big bucks Justin!
Oh wait…
That’s why they will pay me the big bucks!
Looks good with the update. Now they all stand out a bit more.
You made them look simple yet attractive. Thanks for making it free!
Those buttons are so much better than anything the sites themselves have to offer. You could probably make a lot of money selling them to the networks, ha ha (maybe).
@ Trevor: I agree, that’s why I ended up making them. I hated how each network gave you a different size button so it’s hard to put them together. Thanks for stopping by!
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I made some buttons myself, and owe all of the inspiration to you Justin. You probably already know that these buttons are extra special without even looking at them.
Take a looksie
http://probablysucks.com/add-me-as-a-friend-buttons-explicit/
@ Dwayne: Haha, I had to check them out and soon as I saw this comment. Very nice work if I say so myself.
Everyone, check out Dwayne’s buttons, there really…unique
Nice buttons! I will upload these to my blog tomorrow. Thanks for doing this!
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Thank you for the buttons. This will really helpful for my blogs.
@Justin –
Unique is a kind word. I’d say more, messed up, weird, outlandish, awesome, super-cool, super-rad, offensive, eye-catching, eye-candy, eye-appealing and probably lots of other made up words and hyphen usage.
Good stuff, man.
Hey Justin, thanks for the tips. I was wondering if you could provide me with one for linkedin. It would be much appreciated.
Those look great. I’ve just done something similar, mine are just little 46×46 thumbnails but I like how they fit into the overall look of my blog.
I like your buttons. Would it be too much for you to create one for Myspace, too?
Hey there, I can see if I can put something together for Myspace this week. I will let you know if I get one done.