I was looking out for a good looking Social Bookmark Buttons for my new theme and I came across a post by Naeemnur, that had instructions for Blogger (blogspot.com) based blogs which was really good.If your have a blog on blogger you can definitely give this a try.

Note : Remember to backup your template and widgets before making any changes to your template.

1. Goto Dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML and select Expand Widget Templates.

2. Put this code before </head>

<style type=’text/css’>

div.sexy-bookmarks {

height:54px;

background:url(‘http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png’) no-repeat left bottom;

position:relative;

width:540px;

}

div.sexy-bookmarks span.sexy-rightside {

width:17px;

height:54px;

background:url(‘http://i43.tinypic.com/2ueii3t.png’) no-repeat right bottom;

position:absolute;

right:-17px;

}

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials {

margin:0 !important;

padding:0 !important;

position:absolute;

bottom:0;

left:10px;

}

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials li {

display:inline-block !important;

float:left !important;

list-style-type:none !important;

margin:0 !important;

height:29px !important;

width:48px !important;

cursor:pointer !important;

padding:0 !important;

}

div.sexy-bookmarks ul.socials a {

display:block !important;

width:48px !important;

height:29px !important;

font-size:0 !important;

color:transparent !important;

}

.sexy-furl, .sexy-furl:hover, .sexy-digg, .sexy-digg:hover, .sexy-reddit, .sexy-reddit:hover, .sexy-stumble, .sexy-stumble:hover, .sexy-delicious, .sexy-delicious:hover, .sexy-yahoo, .sexy-yahoo:hover, .sexy-blinklist, .sexy-blinklist:hover, .sexy-technorati, .sexy-technorati:hover, .sexy-facebook, .sexy-facebook:hover, .sexy-twitter, .sexy-twitter:hover, .sexy-myspace, .sexy-myspace:hover, .sexy-mixx, .sexy-mixx:hover, .sexy-script-style, .sexy-script-style:hover, .sexy-designfloat, .sexy-designfloat:hover, .sexy-syndicate, .sexy-syndicate:hover, .sexy-email, .sexy-email:hover {

background:url(‘http://i44.tinypic.com/1znbj83.png’) no-repeat !important;

}

.sexy-furl {

background-position:-300px top !important;

}

.sexy-furl:hover {

background-position:-300px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-digg {

background-position:-500px top !important;

}

.sexy-digg:hover {

background-position:-500px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-reddit {

background-position:-100px top !important;

}

.sexy-reddit:hover {

background-position:-100px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-stumble {

background-position:-50px top !important;

}

.sexy-stumble:hover {

background-position:-50px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-delicious {

background-position:left top !important;

}

.sexy-delicious:hover {

background-position:left bottom !important;

}

.sexy-yahoo {

background-position:-650px top !important;

}

.sexy-yahoo:hover {

background-position:-650px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-blinklist {

background-position:-600px top !important;

}

.sexy-blinklist:hover {

background-position:-600px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-technorati {

background-position:-700px top !important;

}

.sexy-technorati:hover {

background-position:-700px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-myspace {

background-position:-200px top !important;

}

.sexy-myspace:hover {

background-position:-200px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-twitter {

background-position:-350px top !important;

}

.sexy-twitter:hover {

background-position:-350px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-facebook {

background-position:-450px top !important;

}

.sexy-facebook:hover {

background-position:-450px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-mixx {

background-position:-250px top !important;

}

.sexy-mixx:hover {

background-position:-250px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-script-style {

background-position:-400px top !important;

}

.sexy-script-style:hover {

background-position:-400px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-designfloat {

background-position:-550px top !important;

}

.sexy-designfloat:hover {

background-position:-550px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-syndicate {

background-position:-150px top !important;

}

.sexy-syndicate:hover {

background-position:-150px bottom !important;

}

.sexy-email {

background-position:-753px top !important;

}

.sexy-email:hover {

background-position:-753px bottom !important;

}

</style>

3. Now find this code <data:post.body/> and add the following code after <data:post.body/>.

<div class=’sexy-bookmarks’>

<ul class=’socials’>

<li class=’sexy-delicious’><a expr:href=’”http://del.icio.us/post?url=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-digg’><a expr:href=’” http://digg.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-technorati’><a expr:href=’” http://technorati.com/faves?add=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-reddit’><a expr:href=’” http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-stumble’><a expr:href=’” http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-designfloat’><a expr:href=’”http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-facebook’><a expr:href=’” http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-twitter’><a expr:href=’” http://twitthis.com/twit?url=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-furl’><a expr:href=’” http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-syndicate’><a href=’http://feeds2.feedburner.com/FEEDNAME‘ title=’Subscribe to RSS’/></li>

<li class=’sexy-email’><a expr:href=’” mailto:?subject=” + data:post.url + “&amp;&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’/></li>

</ul>

<span class=’sexy-rightside’/></div>

Replace FEEDNAME with your FEEDNAME

If you have a wordpress based self hosted blog then you can also try the WP Plugin Sexy Bookmarks.

Source : Naeemnur