Some might remember, that I have been asked in the
past to add Flattr to the available support models. And after considering
this a little more, I wanted to add support options to my blog too. So I looked
into the different options already available and found, that while Flattr offered a donation
option, they had no graphic available like the PayPal donation button. Thus I contacted
the Flattr guys and they responded almost immediately by sending me a
tarball with two images and an example HTML file. You can see that in action
below (this is the ECMAScript version, the CSS version can be seen on the right
side of this website):
If you want to use it on your own homepage here is, what you need to do:
- Download the images (normal, hover) to your server/webspace.
- Add the following to the page(s) where you want to see the Flattr donation
button:
<a href="https://flattr.com/donation/give/to/[USERID]"
title="Donate (via Flattr)"><img
src="/imgs/flattr_donate_normal.png"
title="Support my Debian work (Flattr)"
onmouseover="this.src='/imgs/flattr_donate_hover.png'"
onmouseout="this.src='/imgs/flattr_donate_normal.png'"
alt="Flattr donation button" />
</a>
You need to replace [USERID] with your registered user name.
- You're done!
You can, of course, also just download the first image and skipt the whole
hover effect stuff. And, of course again, you can also use CSS to implement the hover effect, as
I do it on this site. In that case just remove the img tag from the
code snippet above, add a unique id (let us assume it is
flattrDonate) to the a tag and add the following to your
style sheet:
#flattrDonate {
display: block;
background-image: url('/imgs/flattr_donate_normal.png');
width: 56px;
height: 21px;
}
#flattrDonate:hover {
background-image: url('/imgs/flattr_donate_hover.png');
}
Obviously you need to change the URL to point to your copies of the
two images.
