How To Add Together Social Media Icons To Blogger Header

adding a novel widget department to the weblog header but now, we'll produce it using an unordered listing that uses icons of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ together with weblog feed, together with every bit a bonus, the icons volition rotate when you lot hover over them.

You tin laissez passer on notice run across a demo inwards this test blog.

Adding Social Media Icons to Blogger Header

Step 1. From your Blogger dashboard, become to Template together with click on the Edit HTML button:

Step 2. To expand the style, click on the small-scale arrow on the left of <b:skin>...</b:skin> (screenshot 1), therefore click anywhere within the code expanse to search (using CTRL + F) for the ]]></b:skin> tag (screenshot 2) together with add together this code merely inwards a higher house it:

 /* Social icons for Blogger
----------------------------------------------- */

#social-icons {
margin-bottom:-30px;
height:50px;
width:100%;
clear:both;
z-index: 2;
position: relative;
}
.social-media-icons {
display:table
}
.social-media-icons ul {
text-align:right;
padding:5px 5px 0 0
list-style-image:none;
list-style-position:outside;
list-style-type:none;
}
.social-media-icons ul {
margin-bottom:0;
padding:0;
float:right;
}
.social-media-icons li.media_icon {
margin-left:6px;
padding-left:0 !important;
background:none !important;
display:inline;
float:left;
}
.social-media-icons li:hover {
-moz-transform: rotate(360deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);
-o-transform: rotate(360deg);
transform: rotate(-360deg);
-moz-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
}

Screenshot 1:

Screenshot 2:

Step 3. Now search for this line

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

Step 4. And merely inwards a higher house it, add together this code:

<div class='social-media-icons' id='social-icons'>
<ul>

<li class='media_icon'><a href='http://facebook.com/username'><img border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJO_cOmYMGKXvhNvUX7SGm595B3UcMpgv4_ABW1RYLjRV1rT3SnZRDAAOnPa9fsUHUrAlchh1lNdrZD9ljhyphenhyphenX4Yc31PNLeCprxkQAHVVD3FDj5ALNm3ulH0S9bqI0YaiRvsBb44grBnjw/s1600/Facebook.png'/></a></li>

<li class='media_icon'><a href='http://twitter.com/#!/username'><img border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm83CRBLXa0WQjupSl_8EgMlX86pnXTvCr4owHzRHbmG4R7qC0W4SlMsOxqfvXFDcth1fpQf_tmKkfM3NSuUzQXgal46g_2zukROBWoez-kyHSBOS_sLtYDt4ddHLTlkX3GeUJ_1jrgdA/s1600/Twitter.png'/></a></li>

<li class='media_icon'><a href='https://plus.google.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/about'><img border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidU89kYU417pYiE5udlay_NhmiD8oZeGU95ebRGcrqzbdMKGZHX_GWqIS6UIo56FxjTInRJ5Cri3iTR3Xc73cdN-vwedPGLsrq_5d3DL-XqmEn47VjOzF0q9fwJj4aA9c6mv7PxhSawi0/s1600/googleplus.png'/></a></li>

<li class='media_icon'><a href='http://name-of-your-blog.com/feeds/posts/default'><img border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU32a3RjQBGcdr_vHuEDTY77kkvtASB0U5EWVfuRrCHxkTJB_brji9ZTdMVReQFD72rETC4ezDxM2o3jmfvSSSAEGcjP6glNK8PRc7g6zmgqLV1XvD1yI5657tfcb90rlyfrZ87GGd-5o/s1600/RSS.png'/></a></li>

</ul></div>

Customization

- Change what's inwards reddish alongside your usernames together with id: the kickoff is your Facebook username, the minute is that of Twitter, inwards the 3rd you lot should alter the X past times the ID of your Google+ profile together with inwards the 4th you lot volition position the elevate of your blog.
- To alter the icons, merely supersede the urls inwards bluish alongside the ones of your images.
- You tin laissez passer on notice add together to a greater extent than icons if you lot want, you lot merely convey to add together earlier </ul></div> a work similar this for each extra icon you lot want:

<li class='media_icon'><a href='Link URL'><img border='0' src='Image URL'/></a></li>

Step 5. Finally, Save the Template to apply the changes.
The outcome is done alongside CSS3, therefore this outcome volition non operate inwards older browsers.