Over the last few weeks we have seen a surge in the use of the Social Follow “Follow Me” button across websites all over the world. There has been a high percentage of Spanish speaking users signing up as well as French and Chinese. In order to cater to the demands of our users we introduce…Social Follow’s Follow Me button in multiple languages.
As you can see there are four flags next to the Select Button Style sub title. By clicking on one of these flags you will see that button translated into that language. This opens the door to further expansion into these countries and reduces the risk of having a chinese website with one English element.
For existing users, if you want to change your button to a different language, you can just go to “Mange Buttons”. On there you will see the flags. Select the language you want, then select whether you want Follow Me or Follow Us and select the button. It’s that simple.
We are glad for all the support we have been getting from the users of Social Follow and we will continue to add and simplify things for all of you!
Feel free to respond with what you think and any other development requests.
Have a great day!
Thanks,
Rafferty Pendery
Social Follow Creator
Rafferty Pendery, the creator of Social Follow, was interviewed on Inside The Webb. It is probably the most indepth description and history of Social Follow there is, including any inspirations and influences, favorite Web 2.0 websites and more.
It’s definitely worth a read.
Until next time,
Kerry Jones
Social Follow Lead Developer
In developing the Social Follow button, we had to take into consideration many details from the optimization of the coding to functionality. In this I’m going to lay out the simplicity of getting started with the Social Follow button.
The flow works like this:
1. User creates an account on SocialFollow.com
2. The user goes to the create button page and fills in all their links to their social sites. Then click Create Button at the bottom of the page.
3. You will see a pop up with some code in it. Copy and paste this code to your website, wherever you want the button to appear.
That’s it!
The button will now show up on your website displaying the social sites you put links for. If you want to update your button later, go back to the create button page and you will see the social sites you already listed there. Add any additional links or delete any you want to remove. It’s as simple as that.
The button can be 1 column or 2 depending on the number of links you want in your button. You get the 1 column button for 1-7 links and that looks like this for example:
Then if you want 8-14 or more buttons you will our 2 column button which looks like this:
The Social Follow button was built to require very little code and be optimized to load quickly on websites, this is done as well. The button is a few lines of code and loads instantly on websites.
I hope you have as much fun using the button as we did creating it.
Enjoy,
Rafferty Pendery
Creator of Social Follow
