Does Share This Need an Icon?

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1. Patrick Havens adds this Comment:

   Here is a few quick ones… This si what first came to mind.

   The folder has numerous sizes:

   http://litwc.com/gal[...]s/ShareThis/

   November 14th, 2006 at 9:43 pm

2. Malte Kaffenberger adds this Comment:

   Patrick,
   these Icon ar pretty cool, but you could make them look more “web2.0″

   But to answer the question, for sure there is need for icons. And perhaps you can make the globally reconizable icon for social bookmarking as the guys for RSS did…

   November 15th, 2006 at 1:32 am

3. Gabriel M. adds this Comment:

   Oh, man. Is there going to be a new release? — Damn it. I just hacked to pieces the current version, to translate it into Romanian and make some other little changes and now I have to do it again.

   Externalizing the text strings would be most useful. A lot more than an icon.

   Another suggestion… the form placement should take account of the screen size or window size. I have to hack the source and add a -200 to the X offset, to prevent the form from creating horizontal scroll.

   Other than that, an extraordinary plugin.

   November 15th, 2006 at 5:18 am

4. Ben adds this Comment:

   I like the plugin a lot and am thinking about adding it to my site.

   I want to redo everything below the actual post content to add extra features and this would be ideal. I would say any graphics should be dependant upon the theme used, although some sort of standard could be good.

   Patrick - Personally I am not keen on your icons. Sorry. The reason is that, whilst the ideas are good, the execution is lacking. The biggest issue being that the icons lack contrast and end up as a mess of grey when shrunk to 16*16 which will probably be the most popular size for blogs.

   November 15th, 2006 at 8:11 am

5. Luc adds this Comment:

   >Externalizing the text strings would be most useful.
   >A lot more than an icon.

   I second this point

   November 15th, 2006 at 9:35 am

6. James adds this Comment:

   YES

   November 15th, 2006 at 9:38 am

7. Alex adds this Comment:

   I don’t know why I didn’t abstract the strings - guess I just forgot while working on it. I can do that for a future release.

   November 15th, 2006 at 10:31 am

8. Patrick Havens adds this Comment:

   Ben - I understand… you’d almost need to work with that size in mind… so a “all encompasing globe.” probably wouldn’t work. I just threw them out there.

   Hmmm too bad it’s so small (16 px) an arrow with shareit as the length would also work.

   November 15th, 2006 at 12:21 pm

9. Joe Casabona adds this Comment:

   Here’s something I cooked up- hope you like them!

   Share This! Icons

   November 15th, 2006 at 5:42 pm

10. Wade adds this Comment:

    If you really want it to be universal, shouldn’t the requirment for the licence be publice domain so it can truly be freely used by all?

    November 15th, 2006 at 7:58 pm

11. Alex adds this Comment:

    Not a bad icon in use here:

    http://www.teezeh.de[...]ocialize-it/

    November 16th, 2006 at 10:24 am

12. Laundro adds this Comment:

    I second Alex.

    I think teezah’s website has a great icon…. Simple and gets the point across…

    November 16th, 2006 at 9:33 pm

13. MinJun adds this Comment:

    ^^ This icon is really not bad. ^^
    It’s taken from the Silk Icons Set available for free at famfamfam.com. but it’s released under CC and not GPL: http://www.famfamfam[...]/icons/silk/

    November 17th, 2006 at 4:23 am

14. Jeff adds this Comment:

    An icon would sharpen this plugin up considerably. Love “Share This already!

    November 17th, 2006 at 5:57 pm

15. Iwo adds this Comment:

    I have looked at so many plugins for social bookmarks and this is definitly the BEST by far. Thank you so much for the effort and time to put this together.

    November 17th, 2006 at 6:24 pm

16. Patrick Havens adds this Comment:

    If you use famfam then I’d say one like this

    http://www.famfamfam[...]oup_edit.png

    November 17th, 2006 at 7:21 pm

17. John Heppolette adds this Comment:

    I’ve used “Share This” on a site that I’m currently developing, and since I’m already using the FamFamFam set I opted for the following icon as it seems to be the best fit:

    http://www.famfamfam[...]oup_link.png

    November 17th, 2006 at 8:20 pm

18. Alex adds this Comment:

    Of the Silk icons, something like this makes the most sense to me:

    http://www.famfamfam[...]rrow_out.png

    But I really think we’d be best served by trying to create a “feed icon” style mark.

    November 17th, 2006 at 8:52 pm

19. Joe Casabona adds this Comment:

    I’ve decided to try and give it another go after checking out the OPML icon- below is a link to the new ones:

    Revised Share This! Icons

    November 17th, 2006 at 10:12 pm

20. Montoya adds this Comment:

    Guys, the Silk Icon is nice but something unique that stands out on its own would be a lot better. I just wish I had the time to make something myself. Joe’s icon is a good step in the right direction (has the style of the feed icon) but it could use some work. I just wish I had the time to work on it!

    November 19th, 2006 at 12:12 pm

21. Arjan Veen adds this Comment:

    I’ve added Share It, it’s great but an icon would certainly improve it.

    December 3rd, 2006 at 2:25 am

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25. Jason Litka adds this Comment:

    Wow… I never would have figured that so much thought would have gone into a tiny little icon. In any case, I’d just like to say “thanks” as the image you decided on is perfect for the task at hand.

    August 7th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

26. binbin adds this Comment:

    Your icon is really cool but it could be more easy to impose it if you let the possibility to change his color for a better integration with each design…

    February 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm

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