Tags: DHTML | Joomla! | Website development

Social bookmarks keep track of your blog updates and other sociable things, and Twitter, Facebook , MySpace and other social networks can be incorporated into your Joomla site in a few easy steps. First grab the free code for your Addthis bar.

Next, login to your Joomla admin site and go to the global settings, don't worry, we wont do any harm.
In global settings change the editor type from the default “Editor tinyMCE” to “No Editor.” Apply and Close the setting.

This will allow us to post HTML, CSS and Javascript in our very own home made Module, and it will render correctly in the site. But you have to change the global editor setting or it wont work.

The next step is to create a module and post our AddThis code into the module, and decide where on the page we want it to render. From the extension tab, open up the module manager in Joomla.

Once you've opened a new module you'll see a bunch of options for how the Joomla built-in functionality should deal with the new Module.

Select “Custom HTML.” Once open, we'll name it and tell it where we want it placed on the page and then add the HTML in the Custom HTML form.

Save it and don't forget to enable it in the Module Window.

Don't forget to reset the Global Setting back to “Editor tinyMCE.”

You've just made your very own Module, and added Social Networking to your website.

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