How to make custom share buttons - facebook

Question

I have always wanted to add Facebook share buttons to my applications, but the problem that I have is that they all look different. I see sites like this that have custom designed share buttons. Does anybody know a good tutorial, or have any pointers, about how to tackle this?

Answer 1

Sharing something one facebook is quite easy, here is the HTML for my custom share button.
<div id="share_div">
<div id="share">
<a class="click" href="http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id={{fbapp_id}}&link={{link_url}}&message={{share_message|urlencode}}&display=popup&redirect_uri={{link_url}}" target="_blank">
Share
</a>
</div>
</div>
Where all the {{variables}} are to be replace by correct value :
fbapp_id is the id of your facebook application.
link_url is a link attached to the shared content (like a link to your site)
and share_message|urlencode is the message that is shared and it needs to be urlencoded.
Also here some css to style this like a real facebook button :
#share {
border:1px solid #0D386F;
background-color:#5D7DAE;
height:24px;
width: 100px;
}
#share a.click {
font-size:13px;
font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;
color:#fff;
border-top:1px solid #879DC2;
background-color:#5D7DAE;
padding: 2px 10px;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration:none;
width:80px;
display:block;
}
But I let you the pleasure of customizing as you like, the important part being the href of the a tag
Does it answer your question ?