You can now have social media buttons appear on the mobile-optimized version of your website. In YWD Designer / Mobile devices / Smartphones / Banner & content you will find an option called "Social media buttons". If set to "Show", the network buttons you select in Social media & widgets / Social bookmarking will be displayed on people's phones.

Big buttons are used for the mobile, as they're easy to tap there, and without counters in order to speed up page download and save screen real estate. You can see an example of this new feature by visiting our own public website on your phone and scrolling down to the bottom of any page.

Please feel free to bookmark us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon or any other network of your choice!

Other social media options recently added

YWD Designer has a whole new section called Social media & widgets that allows visitors to share pages of your website much more easily. It contains the following sub-sections:

Social media bookmarking

All the social bookmarking options have been combined here in a simple, easy to use interface. You can either choose amongst several combo presets that include different combinations of buttons, or you pick just the specific social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) that you'd like to use. In both cases, you can decide whether the buttons should be laid out horizontally or as a vertical side badge (similar to the one the YWD Help website uses).

New buttons, reflecting popular networks like StumbleUpon and Tumblr have been included, as well as a "+" button from AddThis that allows people to choose from many dozens of other services.

The style of the buttons has also been updated; they look more modern and in tune to the current branding used by the various social networks.

Linked side badges

These are floating badges images that you can place on either side of the page and link to your own Facebook or Twitter pages. They can be used in conjunction with the social social bookmarking buttons, even if you've laid them out as a vertical badge (simply place the linked side badge in the opposite side).

Discussion groups

Allows you to place a Disqus forum at the bottom of every page. For instance, we use that feature in our Help to allow anyone to place comments on any page.

General purpose widgets

Other widgets such as a 'Top of page' arrow (useful in websites with long pages with lots of information), 'Printer friendly', etc. If you're using social media buttons and they're laid out horizontally, the general purpose widgets will appear on a separate row immediately underneath.

You can also add a general purpose floating side tab to the right side of your pages, similar to the "Try it for free" tab we have on YWD's public website.