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Nerd DIY // How to add multiple social media feeds to your site

January 23, 2013 By Carrie Koehmstedt

Yesterday, over at Girl Does Geek, Faye posted about how to easily add a social feed to your theme with Tint.

I did it and I’m telling you it’s AWESOME! And FREE! Check out my new Socially page. You’ll see a standard WordPress page with feeds from both my Instagram and Twitter. You could also add a widget to your sidebar or footer if you so choose. Oh, and Bloggers… it’s also for you, too!

Tint is a simple, yet effective tool that lets anyone aggregate any social media feeds into one page and embed it anywhere they want.

You can aggregate from Facebook pages, Twitter accounts/hashtags, Instagram accounts/hashtags, Youtube channels, etc. and embed it beautifully into any website, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Facebook Pages, and more!

Have you Tinted?

Directions:

Create an account & register on Tint.
Create a Tint.
Connect with your social media networks.
Customize.
And, you’re done!
Insert that code into a widget or a page and start enjoying your new feed.
1. Don’t worry, they have detailed instructions on their site!

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: blogger, Facebook, instagram, social media, tint, tintup.com, Twitter, wordpress, youtube //

Nerd DIY // Free Social Media Icons updated!

December 20, 2012 By Carrie Koehmstedt

faqs:

Each set includes an icon for: Blank, BlogLovin’, Chictopia, Etsy, Facebook, Email, Instragram, LinkedIn, Hello Cotton, Google+, Flickr, Pinterest, RSS, Society+, Stumble Upon, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo & YouTube. That’s 7 new icons, plus 5 updated for a grand total of 19 icons!

And, there are 30 colors, that’s 14 more than before. With new colors like Pantone’s Spring 2013 collection of 10, and 4 Glitter sets! Each icon is 72×72 and in .png file format.

colors:

installation:

Need to learn how to install the icons on your blog? Here’s a great tutorial from Eli Rose.

Another great tutorial for adding icons to Blogger from Beautiful Dawn Designs.

Want to add a hover effect? I have a tutorial here.

resizing:

These icons are on the ‘large’ size of things 72px x 72px, if you want to make them smaller – just include width=”##px” in your image’s code:

example: <img src=”yourimageurl(dot)com” width=”40px”>

macs (apple)

For all of you wonderful Mac users who get a .cpgz file – I’ve been informed Springy (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/springy.html) fixes this problem.

downloads

African Violet (Pantone)	Apple	Black
Boysenberry	Bubble Gum	Confetti
Dusk Blue (Pantone)	Emerald (Pantone)	Fire
Glitter – Black	Glitter – Gold	Glitter – Red
Glitter – Silver	Grape	Grayed Jade (Pantone)
Lemon Zest (Pantone)	Lilac	Linen (Pantone)
Mint	Monaco Blue (Pantone)	Mouse
Nectarine (Pantone)	Ocean	Poppy Red (Pantone)
Shadow	Tangerine	Tender Shoots (Pantone)
Turquoise	Violet	Warm Mint

enjoy!

Please consider following me on twitter, tweeting about this freebie @carrieloves, or liking my facebook page.

I hope you love these icons & leave a comment to let me know if you put them on your blog… I’d love to see them in action!

Filed Under: Blogging, Graphic Design, Web & Technology Tagged With: bloglovin', chictopia, email, Etsy, Facebook, flickr, free, free download, Free Stuff, google+, hello cotton, instagram, linkedin, Pinterest, rss, social media icons, society6, stumble upon, tumblr, Twitter, vimeo, youtube //

Nerd DIY // Free social media icons

April 24, 2012 By Carrie Koehmstedt

Updated social media icons can be found on this new post Free Social Media Icons (updated!)

Filed Under: Blogging, Creative Tagged With: bloglovin', contact, email, Facebook, flickr, free, free download, google+, instagram, linkedin, Pinterest, rss, social media icons, social media icons set, subscribe, tumblr, Twitter, youtube //

Nerd DIY // Free Social Media Icons for bloggers

March 20, 2012 By Carrie Koehmstedt

Updated social media icons can be found on this new post Free Social Media Icons (updated!)

Filed Under: Blogging, Creative Tagged With: contact, email, Facebook, flickr, free, free download, google+, instagram, linkedin, Pinterest, rss, social media icons, social media icons set, subscribe, tumblr, Twitter, youtube //

25 years ago we didn’t have the Facebook

June 20, 2011 By Carrie Koehmstedt

25 years ago there wasn’t the internet, email, (truly) mobile phones, digital cameras and especially not the Facebook.

In 1986, your graduation walking partner would have to have her family take a picture of us two dorks, develop the film, then save it for many decades in a dusty box in the far reaches of her closet, then search valiantly for it because after she commented on your daughter’s graduation picture – you said “if you have a picture of us that would be great to see!” And after days of searching (I’m probably not exaggerating but let’s say I am) post said picture on the Facebook & tag it for all to enjoy.

Technology is fantabulous!