Today I got an e-mail from Hajo Smit of climategate.nl saying it was a shame that my site lacked social media buttons to allow readers to share NTZ articles easily and almost instantaneously. He was right, of course.
I have to admit that I never took the time to sit down and undertake this because I thought it was something difficult to do and I’d likely screw everything up. I’m not a very patient person. But Hajo made it sound easy and gave me a couple pointers on where to begin. It turned out to be really easy – just a matter of using a simple plug-in.
To take me by the hand and lead me through it, I found this Youtube video:
This is something I should have looked at long ago.
Anyway, now you can share NTZ posts with the social media share buttons at the end of the article or at the right side bar. I still have to play around a little bit to get it just the way I want.
Today social media like Twitter and Facebook are absolutely essential if you want to get the word out to as many people as possible.
So I hope you’ll keep reading and share NTZ posts.
Pierre – Is it possible to put the grey FB button over to the right hand side? Or at the bottom of the screen?
At the moment, at eye level on the left hand side it obscures text (in the browser configuration I use) and is very annoying when it opens out every time you accidentally swipe the mouse pointer over it, which is often.
Bruce,
I made some changes. How is it now? On my screen it’s pretty much how I want to have it.
Looks good and works well on my configuration. Not in the way of anything. Thanks!