How To Add Cool Social Sharing Widget with hover Effect?

Today I am going to show you how to add a cool Social sharing widget with a nice hover effect (See the figure at the right) in your blogger blog. Social sharing widget is really important for any blog as it helps a blog to be socially active thus bringing you high traffic to your blog. This widget is very clean, sleek and has cool hover effect. It is well-coded and uses simple CSS and javascript coding and will also not slow your blog loading speed (Recommended : 10 Tips To Increase your Blog loading speed.)

It Contains five social buttons:

• Twitter

• Google+

• Facebook

• Rss

• Pinterest

For adding this widget just follow the simple steps given below-

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How To Add this Social Sharing Widget :

• Go to your blogger dashboard
• Select your blogger blog
• Click on Layout from Drop Down menu (shown in picture)

• A new Window appear
• Click on Add gadget
• And select HTML/JavaScript
• Next Box of HTML/JavaScript will appear (shown in picture)

    

• Now the box of HTML/JavaScript will appear when you click on the box.

• Now paste the following code to install the gadget to your blog.

<style type="text/css">
ul#social {
position: fixed;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
top: 10px;
left: 0px;
list-style: none;
z-index:9999;
}
ul#social li {
width: 100px;
}
ul#social li a {
display: block;
margin-left: -2px;
width: 100px;
height: 70px;
background-color:#fff;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
border:1px solid #AFAFAF;
-moz-border-radius:0px 10px 10px 0px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 10px;
-khtml-border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
-khtml-border-top-right-radius: 10px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 4px 3px #000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 4px 3px #000;
}
ul#social .twitter a{
background:#0F96C6 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3LfXgl6ZjCj9Qy1-xa18z5gVVppTNBomcxZbOBQYhZ-9gQ0qyVSmSI9Jld7eoKgrTG5af5hOwB6Mn3yfpZsCIwq87Kq88uD75VGJwchCYss9-FrisdoAA4Ee0zYcrhau_9sBp4BA0Rk/s1600/Twitter.png)no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
}
ul#social .googleplus a {
background:#D73D27 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMh_4ZBofpG_IU7WIx0MWd4Hu1MqSdUh0rU-cvsorHnaBKjkehp_6jZGaQvGPBzkIxA6wtlC__80WadJYNt_F6mUD80Wum6pnP71QI_H-GkO2U94J4_VKCCVvEWT0Xf3ixXMI89c2J3OQ/s1600/GOOGLE+PLus.png)no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
}
ul#social .facebook a {
background:#1A4B97 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jKVu979veqCYDoY_63q-N4wHkZpomddlqZV3B_N5kISo-BtU4wV4eQh4BjxYa_hEdwjJXv-i6W0l4ry7vzo2I23MHxXu8_Y0eA9s449n1vM4Uk0XDNSQxtWqdTE1s8wANb0XNlzr8WI/s1600/Facebook.png)no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
}
ul#social .rss a {
background:#FAAE17 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsku2BlsiS-iPM1gF5TNACPsjWiLqFUKK_KDpFOCDBcTH9HbgPNE_w9I31R7WpEHHw0IIzlbGwvnnZhSZCXaC36a5vVtT_RPfwVFf9iWKh4d9anOB4JoihpQdrEXmI1OFM9T4V2oNnjQU/s1600/rss.png)no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
}
ul#social .pinterest a {
background:#963336 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEq3fRFBgVZYNcBEhGrAMfma-rRPeFBXIV4Ki1_cQLJuJbhiGDQ244av-46_XeGBQnxdzZguuMoza84WienSUIqeABlCaQe0rA57uc7iV2zjQ9ZlDBIM-ibCYsisgLFHl7Sd2MEj94pg/s1600/Pinterest.png)no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
}
</style>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script><script type='text/javascript'>
$(function () {
$('#social a').stop().animate({
'marginLeft': '-85px'
}, 1000);
$('#social > li').hover(
function () {
$('a', $(this)).stop().animate({
'marginLeft': '-2px'
}, 200);
},
function () {
$('a', $(this)).stop().animate({
'marginLeft': '-85px'
}, 200);
}
);
});
</script>
<ul id='social'>
<li class='twitter'><a href='#' title='Twitter'></a></li>
<li class='googleplus'><a href='#' title='Google Plus'></a></li>
<li class='facebook'><a href='#' title='Facebook'></a></li>
<li class='rss'><a href='#' title='Rss'></a></li>
<li class='pinterest'><a href='#' title='Pinterest'></a></li>
</ul>

Now you are almost done, just replace the Highlighted  #  with your social handles. Also if you have jquery plugin already in your blog template, delete the code highlighted in yellow (<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>) . 

You are done. Now Just Save Your changes.

Having problems? Feel free to ask to me through comments section.