Social Media Design For Dummies

A few of the most popular social bookmarking sites and services (with more sure to come) are

Delicious (https://delicious.com)
StumbleUpon (www.stumbleupon.com)
reddit (www.reddit.com)

You can also typically include your site URL, making these platforms a great way to drive traffic to your content.

a result, these sites are excellent resources if you want to keep up with what’s popular online. Most enable anyone to vote on a site.

Social bookmarking sites rank the popularity of web pages by the number of votes they get. A

Using Social Bookmarking Sites

A typical article on The New York Times website, such as the one shown in this figure, includes images, ads, and many other distracting elements. The social media icons are relatively small, but they are consistently placed in a prominent location where they are easy to find.

Another good practice is to make sure that every page with shareable content has a set of social media sharing buttons in the same place.

The best social media icons should be large enough to identify on any page, but not so big that they draw your users’ attention away from the content they came to see in the first place.

When it comes to social media icons, though, studies suggest that the best size for social media buttons is somewhere between really big and really small.

Visit all three sites and decide which one you think has the best-looking social media button designs.