Facebook’s new “Like” button

As announced by Facebook at the recent F8 conference in the USA, the new like button can be easily added to web pages and adds instant integration with the ever popular social networking site.

I found it very easy to integrate indeed as per so:

• Add an instance of Facebook’s Javascript SDK to your website’s source code. Ensure you have an application ID from Facebook also or the button will not work.
• Generate your like button here and click “Get Code” and select the XFBML version and copy the code.
• Then simply add the button code where you want in your site’s source code and you’re done!
  • [Wordpress blogs] instead of putting in a URL, add the following into your loop:

As you can see, very easy indeed.

Disqus Comment Plugin

Finally, the latest addition to the site is the very versatile, Disqus commenting system.

I felt that my old plugin I used was too bulky and was rather unessacary for just simple commenting. People don’t want to have an account for every site they visit, so allowing them to use their current Facebook, Twitter or OpenID accounts means less time registering. You don’t even need one of those accounts as posts can still be done via Guest with no account whatsoever.  Try it out next time you fancy having a little comment.

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Been some time since I made a ~Featured~ post.

Read more to find out what’s new to Southanuk in 2010.

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So what’s new to Southanuk in its 10th year?

Well for one we have the return of Google Earth Friday. A long forgotten feature of Southanuk that was quite prominent on SOK flash site that I wrote myself. This can be found here

Next up we have logging in with Facebook. It’s so simple to login to Southanuk now, just click on the bar above and select “Connect With Facebook” and Southanuk will create an account for you here using your Facebook data. Don’t worry, you can select what you share with Southanuk and what data Southanuk will send to Facebook [you will be asked at every stage if you wish to post something to your wall.]

Also new, Ok so not all that new, is an updated theme. A lot of the errors that were on the older revisions of the theme have been eradicated and re-written. Still one or two issues to work on but I’m nearly there! Also, keep your eyes peeled for a new look top section of the site that will hopefully consolidate some of what I have on the site to make it easier to read.

Finally, something I rolled out quietly, is a new search system. This system will search everything on the site, and I mean everything; files, comments, posts, pages and maybe other things… who knows :O.

So I hope you enjoy the new features for Southanuk and keep checking the site for new posts and whatnot!