When I had opened a German blog for my agency yesterday I also connected it with my facebook profile via NetworkedBlogs (formerly: Blognetworks).
I’ve described how to do this in a previous post on this blog. But by then the widget had been very text-based and undesigned. You also had to tamper a lot with the code if you wanted it to be displayed differently. If you didn’t the widget was displayed in facebook blue and white with your customized link color.
As you can see, the new widget doesn’tonly include the logo of NetworkedBlogs, its content has also been limited to the essential function it has: making people click to follow your blog.
The link color is still inherited from the CSS where you put the widget on. No tampering necessary anymore. For whatever reason though, NetworkedBlogs has customized the widget height to 360px which causes a lot of empty space at the bottom of the widget. So if you don’t want it to waste your sidebar space, just delete the 3 and make it 60px high.
Beginning of the NetworkedBlogs widget code
Where do you get the widget code again?
Just log in to your facebook, go to your NetworkedBlogs blogprofile and click on “widget”:
Then you get to a page where the new code is given to you that you can use to replace the one of the old widget.
Annette,
Thanks for the post. But I noticed that the widget you put on your site is actually not working properly. Probably the javascript is disabled on your bog!! The widget should display the pictures of your blog followers. Please see this blog as an example of how the widget should look like.
http://opensocial.weekendapps.com/
The widget is correct as this blog is hosted on wordpress.com and doesn’t show more than the logo and link. There are indeed other widgets available (for selfhosted blogs) though that show the followers.