Time to knock things up a notch I think; I’m going to try and write more interesting posts in future (and hopefully fewer of the last-minute ones I do just for the sake of fulfilling my daily posting obligation, which you can recognise by the fact that they generally consist of a link and an anecdote), and hopefully get more people reading. This also requires a bit more marketing, and I hereby unveil the first step towards getting the tossr name out there a bit more: I’ve installed Peter Harkins’ Sociable plugin, which provides handy links which bookmark the post in question at a variety of social bookmarking sites, such as del.icio.us, Digg, etc.

However, there’s been a bit of talk recently about Sociable and its “noisy” visual appearance, so I decided to take a little look when I installed it to see what could be done to “turn the volume” down a little and avoid “deafening” my readers (see how I extended that metaphor to breaking point? There’s going to be more of that in the all-new tossr, so stay tuned!)

What I decided to do is to move the icons into the pop-up tooltip that usually tells you what social bookmarks are for. I changed the trigger text (known in the plugin as the “tagline”) from “Share and Enjoy” to “Hover over me for social bookmark links” to point the reader in the right direction and slimmed down the gargantuan list of 25 icons to a more manageable 5.

At present, it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer for some reason (I think it could be the fact that I changed the SPAN tags used in the plugin to DIVs as it isn’t syntactically correct to have a list within a SPAN) but I’m looking into using tooltip.js or something to make it fancier anyway, which should hopefully get it working in IE again.