How to: add Drag to share function to your website

Sharing the new post to social websites like digg, twitter, facebook or just via the instant messenger or email is the thing that almost webmasters want their visitor to do after reading their handy article. There are many ways that the webmasters can do to add the “social function” to the website but “Drag to share” is the new way to encourage visitor to do that.

With “Drag to share” enabled website, you just drag an image and drop it into any social website to share the article, there’re some ways that you can do:

Do it your way

Following a useful article about “Drag to Share” was posted by Nettuts+ in 2009 can help you build a Drag to share function by yourselves, with this way, you can add many social websites as you like. If you can understand how Jquery and the CSS work, you can modify it to suit your needs.
Before you do, you can view the demo at: http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/467_dragtoShare/source/dragToShare.html

WordPress plugin

Based on the Nettuts+ article, Adrian Apan was built up a wordpress plugin that will add the same function to your WordPress website, this’s an easy way for the new users who have less experience about coding to achieve this technique.
You can download the plugin at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/drag-to-share

Professional service by Meebo

Using this service will bring back many best features: it can access to over 100 social networks and compatible with Facebook connect, furthermore you can track site visitors. In other ways, it’s not only images that you can drag and drop, flash images and links can be shared too.
You can view the Meebo demo at: http://bar.meebo.com/playground/
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