Look down.
Way down there.
Did you notice that nifty toolbar at the bottom of this page? It was developed by a company named Wibiya, and I think it’s got some good Mojo that you can put to use on your site as well.
Basically, the Wibiya add-on toolbar works on most blog platforms -Joomia, Drupal, WordPress, Blogger and Typepad. It saves space if you have troubles finding a place for your search toolbar, recent posts, social marketing links and the like. More often than not, you’ll find the right-hand side of your pages serving as a catch-all for everything but the kitchen sink. Ahem. Kinda like our site.
You can choose your applications from a growing list of handy utilities -live notifications, translation services, your RSS feed, 3D photo galleries, Facebook and Twitter connections, and a bunch more. (See them here.) And you add and remove applications in just one click. Of course, you can choose from a nice color palette so it fits nicely into your site design, too.
I’ve seen a few of these types of toolbars around lately -but this one is free. Not only that, in most instances, there’s no coding necessary; you just install it like you would install any blog plugin.
I think the toolbar can help set your blog or website apart from your competition. I’ve read reports that it actually increases clickthrough rates. People like to push buttons -and it certainly provides you with that option. Best of all, if you don’t like it, you can always quickly deactivate the plugin and poof! -it’s gone; no harm, no foul. Pick it up here.
What’s your opinion? Tool? Toy? Or both?
