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Linking to Twitter and Facebook from a website

March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

This week I’ve worked on a social lightbox for Teeorama allowing our visitors to tweet or write on their Facebook walls from our tee-shirt shop.The lightbox itself is built using ColorBox, a powerful and customizable lightbox library built on JQuery (MIT License). The Twitter tool is fairly easy to setup, I used bit.ly to generate the shortened URL of the current page and placed it, along with a default content, in the text box. When the user clicks on submit, he or she is redirected to twitter. The update box contains what was typed in the teeorama box and one click on the update button is enough to validate the tweet.The follow button is even simpler, it is nothing but a link to teeorama’s twitter account.Facebook is both more powerful (you can publish to your wall without leaving the teeorama page) and a bit trickier to setup.First, you need to head over to developers.facebook.com/setup.php to register your site as a Connect enabled website. Upload the xd_receiver.htm file to your server and validate. You now have access to your Facebook Connect Tools, API documentation and sandbox as well as to a gallery of widgets or code samples you can use. I chose to use the Comment Box.


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