Social buttons
highergroundstudio opened this issue · comments
Social buttons as in facebook, pinterest, google+, ex.. this feature would be nice to have on the popup so that the voter can share his/her entry.
Update on social share buttons. Design shot:
Todo:
- Share button
- Fix spacing
What do you think @cgilstrap?
Love it!
The only addition that appears necessary? Google Plus. Love the shortcode though. Is Dribble the plan?
@cgilstrap I took the look and design from dribbble to use as a template and just have not changed the url yet to the custom url that is created for the entry.
Oh and I will add Google plus as well.
Do you think that the share/like number is necessary? I just don't want to spend too much time on something is not necessary...
I don't think the share # is nearly as important as the vote number. If the social share number can somehow become figured into the vote number that would be more than enough!
@cgilstrap That may be a better use of the vote number even though I am thinking that it actually may not be that hard to add anyway. I have look working pretty well and is really cool looking with a dropdown drawer that holds the share buttons (the entries even re-arrange). I am thinking of using the social count jquery plugin for the actual button rather than using a share link (example). What are your thoughts?
Right on. I like the idea of the drop down and share # along with the +2 social voting option.
@cgilstrap Here is a preview of where I am this morning
I am going to add Google+. I am going to change the icons to one sprite and add it then.
Great! Love the social buttons drop down!
@cgilstrap I wasn't able to work on this much today with school and the power went out here for a while.
I thought I would give you a peek at the new icons (I used the Icomoo app to make the sprite). The sprite is only 646 bytes as well! Yes, I need to fix some of the css.
This is shaping up!
Looking forward to testing this new version tomorrow!
UPDATE
- I have the social counts working other than google plus (which is harder)
- All icons are great and using sprites
- Sharing is working but not adding to the vote count just yet as I want to change the url system first
- Url shortener: moving to google shortener instead (bitly has to use https which is not supported on all PHP setups)
Beta Release: Late day 6/4 (as of right now with no complications)
@cgilstrap I have finished everything but adding the vote count. I unfortunately will not be able to finish this today (most likely) as my Grandpa is being moved to physical therapy and I must go and help with that. I should be able to finish this pretty fast when I have the chance. Here is a screenshot of the progress:
Looks good! LMK when/where to get the update so that I can beta.
Also, good luck with your grandfather!
No pushes coming for beta.
@cgilstrap No beta quite yet. I have everything working other than getting facebook taking the entry image for the share. I know it is possible without og. I want to get this to work before I release. I emailed a friend of mine who will know and I am waiting for his response.
Secondly, I rewrote the entire voting system to figure out what was causing the ios problem and I think I found it and in turn have made the error handling much better.
Social Share added in version 1.3.1. Released today to the beta. I am now adding the social voting using the share but wanted to release the social share feature for beta testing first. Enjoy!
Remind @cgilstrap