I get quite a few inquiries about how to add social media badges to a website. To be sure, it is definitely important to have a link to your Facebook, Twitter and especially your IMDb account on your website. This is a crash course guide for only the most technically illiterate. I’m going to walk you thru this, step by step. When I say step by step, I mean baby steps. I mean you CAN do this!
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Adding Badges
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Adding a follow button for Twitter
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Embedding Your Twitter Feed
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Embedding A Facebook Post
Adding badges.
How it looks.
Like this:
or this:
or this:
Actually there’s a ton of different styles! I found these particular ones at niftybuttons.com. There’s whole ton of websites just like this out there that are easy, fast and free.
How to do it:
Since there’s a multitude of services out there for this exact same thing, I’m just going to give you a quick run thru with one of them. Just remember the goal is to get the code and put it in your site.
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Visit niftybuttons.com
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Choose a theme by clicking on the design you like.
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Fill out the form with your social media URLs.
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Click submit and copy the code. Continue on to steps 5-9 below.
Adding a follow button for Twitter.
How it looks.
Follow @myactingsite, then there’s this: Tweet
There’s a couple more slight variations to these.
How to do it:
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Visit http://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons#follow to customize your Twitter buttons and get the code to put them in your website.
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You should now be logged into a page that looks like this. You may be required to log in to Twitter for this to work, FYI.
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Now it’s time to paste that code into your website. First thing you need to do is log in to MyActingSite.com.
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Embedding Your Twitter Feed.
How it looks.
How to do it:
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Visit twitter.com/settings/widgets
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Click “Create new”
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You can edit appearance settings here. Click “Create widget”
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Copy the code and follow steps 5-9 above.
Embedding a Facebook Post.
How it looks.
How to do it.
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To embed a Facebook Post, simply click on the drop down arrow in the top right corner of any post and navigate to embed post.
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Copy the code and continue on to steps 5-9 above!
