Build Buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub and More!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:34:59 +0000

Recently I’ve been working on a small project called Build Buttons. Build Buttons is a website that let’s you quickly create buttons for sharing and promoting content. You can use Build Buttons to create Facebook ‘Like’ or ‘Follow’ buttons, LinkedIn ‘Share’ buttons, Google +1 buttons, GitHub Star, Fork and Follow buttons and more. Here’s how it works.

First, go to www.buildbuttons.com:

Now choose the kind of buttons you want, in this example we’ll select ‘Social Media’ from the top menu:

On each category page, there’s a list of the different types of buttons that can be built. Social Media includes the ‘Share’ button set. Click ‘Build It!’:

Now just fill in the details to customise your buttons, enter a URL and select the sort of buttons you want to include. When you’re ready to see how your buttons look, choose ‘Build it!’:

You get a working preview of how your buttons look, and a text box that includes the HTML you need to drop into your webpage or blog, easy!

Build Buttons has quite a few different types of buttons you can create. You can:

Create a set of social media buttons
Create Facebook Like and Follow buttons
Create Google +1 buttons
Create LinkedIn Share buttons
Create GitHub Star, Follow and Fork buttons

XPath Studio - First Cut

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:11:27 +0000

I have just uploaded the first cut of my mini-project ‘XPath Studio’. This project is a small site that lets you choose a URL to a source webpage, and run any XPath query against it - showing the data that is returned from the query.

At the moment this blog has an issue with images so I cannot upload screenshots, but in the next few days they’ll be there. Until then, you can try out XPath Studio by visiting:

www.xpathstudio.com

The project is ASP .NET MVC 4, with Razor. I’ve stripped out the bulk of the styling that’s provided by default, and layed it out with Twitter Bootstrap.

This is the first time that I’ve used Bootstrap and already have decided that it’ll be my first choice for web applications, at least those in the proof of concept phase. The library is lightweight, easy to use, clean and simple.

More updates on XPath Studio will come over the next few days, as I tweak the core functionality based on feedback.

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Build Buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub and More!

XPath Studio - First Cut