Okay, if you do not know “hoverlets” are – here is the definition.

hoverlets can be termed as hovering widgets that appear as a non intrusive overlay window when the visitors hover over a hoverlink.

Getting your site hoverized

Once the publisher account is activated from our side, a code is given to the publisher, that has to be inserted in the template of the webpage.

You will find the script on the dashboard as soon as you log in. Please ensure that the code is inserted in the footer of your page just before the </body> tag.

To start creating hoverlets click on hoverlet tab and then “new hoverlet”

• Step 1 – Name your hoverlet and add brief description. This is important, as these hoverlets can be saved for public consumption as well in our community directory (I will talk about it later). Once done click on “add” .

• Step 2 – You will have to choose content now. There will be 2 buttons that will appear. “Rich text” and “html”. If you want to have formatted text or an image, you should click on rich text. Rich text editor will allow you standard text/ image formatting options. Incase of “html”, you can choose to insert any kind of code inside it. You can go ahead and even write a dynamic rich applications, or you could choose to insert any embed code like youtube movies, slideshare presentations, flickr etc. etc.    

• Step 3 – You can dress up your hoverlet here. The “event” drop-down menu will allow you to specify whether a hoverlet should appear on-hover or on-click. You can also choose one of the various themes that are available  to blend them with your site from the theme menu . Publishers can also customize what kind of link style they prefer…whether dotted or a single underline. They can also choose the colors. The height and width of the hoverlet can be changed by simply entering the respective values in pixels !

Any change that you make in step 2 & 3 will immediately show in the preview on the right hand side.

Once you are happy with the way your hoverlet looks, just click save hoverlet. There you go you have just completed making your first hoverlet.

Now you will have to attach keywords to the hoverlets.

In the “view” tab you will be shown all the hoverlets that have been created. Click on the add keywords button and start adding which ever keywords you want. One hoverlet can be displayed for multiple keywords.

Once you have added your keywords, go and grab a cup of coffee. Your site will start showing hoverlets incrementally over 24 to 48 hours !