Yesterday I saw the Twitter Follow Badge in several pages…I actually like it, but I don’t like how is it generated and how it works.
I found this things that I didn’t like:
- Uses an external JS that need to be load form another page.
- The link can’t be followed from bots and you can’t open it in another page.
- There was no title in the link since there’s no real link.
- There’s an about that redirect to the site of the owner.
- The link to your twitter is a redirect from their site.
- Uses an static image for the text.
What I did is start a new script that generates a badge in html with css, with few options and fixing all the other things that I talk before.
Generate a follow twitter badge! and try this 😉
Still To do:
- Fix ie6 (Help please!)
- Choose between right or left
- Choose the distance from top
- Choose image (or disable)
Since last night I’ve been working on this. It took me so long since I’m not a web designer and CSS is kind of difficult for me xD also I tried to make it work in ie6 but I really can’t.
Script Name: twitterBadge
Version: 0.1
License: GPL v3
Description: Generate a Twitter Badge for your site like the one in the right side.
Support: https://garridodiaz.com/
Notes:
Works in FF 3.5, Chromium, ie7,ie8, NO IE6
Download (you will dowload the script that generates the form images etc…)