Social networking share widgets for iWeb... any solutions?

Question

I've been trying in vain for sometime to get one of the social networking share widgets (ShareThis, AddThis, TellaFriend) to work in iWeb 08 and am hoping someone might be able to help.
With all i am pasting the code provided by these services into the HTML Snippet box. I am using the popup functions, since without doing so requires the HTML Snippet box to be resized unacceptably large obscuring other links on the page. The widgets are published fine, however the link they provide when posting to social networking site or included in an email add an additional extension on the URL that just links to an image of the widget. (i.e. http://web.me.com/fknott/CrystalCove_Properties_2//Home_files/widget1markup.html) the URL should end Home.html.
Does anyone know how to fix this? the tech folks at each of these sites have been no help at all. Are there any other share widgets aside from these that will work seemlessly with iWeb?
I really appreciate any help.
Thank you,
Troy

Answer 1

Hello Marc,
The code generated by ShareThis will not work with iWeb/insert HTML snippet.
You'll have to put it inside the body tags of every HTML page at the location where you want it to show.
Attention : the code is inserted after publishing = outside iWeb ! Every time you change a page in iWeb and publish it, you'll need to enter the code again.
To automate this process you can use [TextWrangler|http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler>
_ in iWeb on every page you want ShareThis, create a new textbox and add something that is unique and easy to find afterwards when the page is published as a HTML page : ex. AAAAAA,
_ move the textbox to the location where you want it to show, resize if needed,
_ publish your website with iWeb,
_ mount your iDisk in the Finder,
_ open TextWrangler and the first thing you do is "start recording",
_ open the first HTML file you see in your Site, ex. index.html (It's OK if that page doesn't have the AAAAAA) +(when you have the ShareThis on a specific Site or Blog only, locate that folder),
_ in the Search field enter AAAAAA,
_ in the Replace fiel enter the code provided by ShareThis,
_ do a "replace in all files in this folder" where you select your Site or Blog folder,
_ stop recording and save the script for later,
_ unmount iDisk from the finder.
Done.
On my Blog entry about [Favicons|http://www.site49.eu/Leo/Tips4Mac/Entries/2009/2/15_Favicons.html|Add favicons to iWeb websites] you can find some screenshots on how to use TextWrangler as an automated search and mass replace tool.
Kind regards,
Leo