I'm wondering how to replace my social media icons with my own custom images. For example instead of using the typical Facebook Like button or Twitter follow button I would replace it with my own image, while keeping the same functionality.
Websites like BuzzFeed and SuperCompressor are good examples that it can be done. Each has replaced the Facebook Like button with a custom image but the functionality remains the same.
I'm having a hard time finding any information one the web. Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
As the place you will find this image may depend on the plugins and themes you use, you have to find out where the actual image comes from.
To do so, I would suggest that you install a browser such as Chrome that allows you to inspect an element on your page (will open the portion of code displaying the selected item). Once you see where the image comes from, you can either replace the actual image with a custom one if it's on your website's server, or search your website files for this image's URL and replace it with a link to the image of your choice.
I think something like
this http://www.inboundnow.com/apps/facebook-like-button-generator/
might work but the google search for
custom facebook like button for website
has a lot of results
EDIT: Well if you already know how to make a custom image you can follow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9493988/how-to-trigger-facebook-like-button-from-custom-button
to make your custom image into a facebook like button
`http://jsfiddle.net/masondesu/haxvL/`
This site also has some info
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Website builder name: Dynadot not Wordspace SO I CANNOT MAKE A CHILD THEME
I want css code for my website P.S The website has prebuilt themes and we can basically customize text, change pictures, add products etc. The website also provides a CSS editor like square space does. I have been to so many websites to try to copy some code but not a success. I have no experience with it either. Here is some information that might be useful.Also, the first pictures has drag and drop options like i can drag VIDEO to a certain part Here is a example website: https://www.svpartners.com/ I don't want the image animation it already has i need some new ideas on how to customize it with CSS, Font for the website Open sans
The screenshot 1 shows how my website theme already looks also at the bottom left there is a code option and there is a screen shot #2 for it so it might be helpful. Again I have tried many sites but most ask for money and most are not helpful. ALSO a GIF so you can have a better view😁 please help me out thanks
THE GIF
I am new here, I don't know how this works! Just ignore the writing if it'd not good, Also comment if you need any more details
Assuming there is no og:image or link rel img_source, does anyone have any real-world experience or advice on better-than-random techniques to choose an image that best represents a web page?
Update: All answers are good, so upvoted them all and selected one, although it seems there is no great way of doing this. I will experiment with largest picture and screenshot of what it would like on a low-res client. Thanks all!
PS: I'm finding that quite a few pages seem to have og:image or link rel img_source anyway. More than I expected
Taking a screenshot of the website in its smallest possible form, how it would look on a notebook laptop or even a mobile (but not the mobile site version), would be a non-random approach.
Most good web designers will try to make sure users are able to see what the page is about immediately upon loading and include the most important and relevant information 'above the fold' as they say.
Choose the logo of your page as the og:image. That way your brand becomes associated with all your posts, without having to worry about what image best defines each individual page.
For other pages, you cannot control what image they have.
You could investigate how sharer.php works but other than that there is no silver bullet as to choose which image for a web page that has no definable image.
I don't have any experience with Facebook opengraph, but one trick I've used before is to grab favicons of sites I've linked to and use them as link button icons... They're small and are usually always associated with the company name and/or logo, and they're pretty universal across most professional websites. And the usually univeral filename favicon.ico makes it really easy to pick out of the html (or the link attributes if they change the filename).
Might give that a shot if that could be adapted into what you are trying to do. If you find that doesn't look too good, you can try a more "web 2.0" take and check for iPhone/iPad button apple-touch-icon png images (probably only find them on big name sites though)http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html
I would normally suggest that you simply scrape the page of img tags. However, these days, CSS background images are frequently applied to h1/header/div/a/etc. tags to display logos in place of text.
One possible solution is to grab all elements with 'logo' in their ID/class name:
var l = $('[id*="logo"],[id*="Logo"],[class*="logo"],[class*="Logo"]');
If this is/contains an img tag, chances are you have the site's logo. Otherwise, if it's a div or other such container, you'll need to dig into the child elements' CSS properties to see if they have a background image.
From this you can build a set of candidate images, which when combined with a heuristic based on (for example) image dimensions, should hopefully spit out a logo every time.
I hope this helps you on your way!
Going for the logo is usually the wrong way. Seeing it from a user of your website's point of view I would rather want no image than a logo all the time. This is the same as in Google+ or Facebook links. Only show images when it really does make sense.
However finding the corresponding image may not always be trivial if there is no og:image or rel="image_source" provided.
An article usually has a title which is presented as <h1> or <h2> tag. The nearest image may be the right one. However the nearest may also be a logo so this can go wrong.
I would do that very pragmatic. I would fetch the most likely image first and read the given EXIF data, if this is a real image there are informations provided. If this is just a logo, spacer or some other kind of layout graphic it does not have EXIF data and therefore is not relevant. If the first picture is not the right tough, I would fetch the next one and so on.
Another clue may be the HTML5 <article> tag which usually has the corresponding image to the post nested.
Nevertheless there are several web designer not using standards and their webpage may not be parable nicely.
The client doesn't want the photo to be downloaded if it is right clicked on. I explained if someone wants the photo they can get it off the site but he wants to make it a bit more difficult for a novice user to download the image. Hence if you right click you will get the blank 'photo' instead of the actual photo underneath.
Use logic:
Put the image you want to protect as a background image in a <div> or other block level element
Put an <img> that is transparent over that image in the <div>. Make sure it covers the entire image/div
A quick google has thrown this up for me, hope it can help you.
4) Prevent Downloads Using Tables: 'Right clicking' images is a fast shortcut to find, copy, and/or download images. For those that have their own website it is possible to prevent this action by placing images as a background to tables. The code is fairly simple in CSS, using the "background-image:url" style:
<table style="background-image:url('image.jpg');width:Wpx;height:Hpx"><tr><td></td></tr></table>
Another method might be,
5) Javascript Right Click Disable: Another measure to prevent right clicks on images is to use Javascript. These short scripts over-ride browser right clicks. Rather than recreate a script that has been widely published in various forms over the internet, I will leave it to the reader to search google for Javascript Disable Right Click. I will however mention that Javascript is client-side, and scripts such as these can not only effect the usability of a website, but can also readily be disabled by turning Javascript off.
I took the info above from this site --- http://www.naturefocused.com/articles/image-protection.html ---
People can just printscreen the image and put it in paint if they really wanted it though im afraid :(
Thanks,
Jack.
First time overflowing the stack.
I'm making a website with several html pages that are identical except for the fact that they contain different images that are more or less identical in size - and thats how they are named, by the jpg that they feature.
The pictures look great with the website, but I have a 300 pixel header that pushes them downward > forcing you to scroll down to see the full image. This is built into the shared CSS for all these gallery pages.
I have simple text links below the images that are hard coded to point to the next image in the gallery. (I have a list of the 20 images im displaying). When someone clicks the image, it goes to that page and resets the scroll to the top, which makes the header push the image area down.
Can anyone tell me how to prevent the scroll reset behavior of the new link?
Without using something like jQuery, you could link the pages such that you have an anchor tag like <a name="gallery"></a> above the images on each page and when giving the link to the various pages, append a #gallery to the url such as Next Image. This is duplicated on each page however, and will not produce a robust webpage. You'll want to change things in the future and this will cause problems and further work, so I would consider a dynamic alternative.
Note this won't look as seamless as with jQuery and using AJAX to load in the images when needed. Or better yet, as most JS galleries work, load the images into the page invisible at first and then with JS have them show up on the link click. The benefit of this would be that you could generate the links in JS using the provided images. If the images are large enough that they may cause considerable lag on page load, consider making placeholder images of some sort. In any case, take a look at lightbox 2.
Also, I didn't get the feeling you were using any server side scripting to create this gallery. If the js solution doesn't suit you or you find the added benefit of generating part of the website automatically based on the content need at the time, take a look at using something like PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. If it's just a simple website you're after, a great solution might be Wordpress.
You could have one page and just replace the images?
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/fir.html
Now of course you change the function to work on a "previous/next" button system, assuming you have a photo gallery of some sort.
Please post more details.
You want your link to look something like this:
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html_links.htm#tips">
Visit the Useful Tips Section</a>
and you want to give your image an id="tips" in this case.
Check out this fiddle to see an example. The only difference is that your href will have the rest of the url in there like the code posted above.
http://jsfiddle.net/QgzsL/
You can see what I am talking about at www.ethoma.com/wd/. Basically, as you can see on the right, I have a bunch of my own icons that I custom formatted to fit my site nicely. Because they are my own icon, all they are right now are little hyperlinks. I was wondering if I could also get a "tweet" button or a twitter button that automatically hit follow for the user, and didn't just simply bring him to my profile. I know I can do this, but when I do, I end up with the very misfitting icon that Twitter gives you.
My question is, is there a way to get these like buttons and social bookmarking buttons without the stock icon facebook gives you?
If you want to make social media buttons available to your users you might want to check out AddThis. They provive a rich API for many different social media sites including facebook twitter google plus etc.
I know you can use your own icons and customize a whole bunch of things (which are all well documented on their website) but I don't know if you can have your own like button. But if they can do it/provide the option you can too, somehow.
http://www.addthis.com/help/custom-buttons#different-image