How To Add Together A Google Contacts Push To Your Blog, Website Or Desktop

This article shows how to add together a push that takes a user straight to Google Contacts to your spider web log or website. It every bit good distributes a motion-picture exhibit that y'all tin role inwards other places (eg your PC desktop) to brand your ain Google Contacts icon.

Most people lead maintain a push on their estimator or smartphone, which they role to start their email. For some, this goes straight to their Gmail concern human relationship inwards a web-browser, field others role an organization similar Thunderbird or Outlook to await at their e-mail messages inwards a Gmail concern human relationship and/or inwards e-mail accounts they lead maintain amongst other services.

If y'all role Gmail every bit your e-mail system, hence Google every bit good gives y'all an address book, which they telephone scream upward Contacts. This is non the same every bit the address mass inwards Thunderbird or Outlook etc, which is saved on your local computer. Instead, the Google address mass is saved on the internet, inwards your Google account.

Google Contacts is tightly linked to your Gmail account, together with the means that close people access it is by:

Going to Gmail
Clicking on the Contacts push inwards the left-sidebar.

But y'all tin go straight into your Google Contacts, without having to charge Gmail first. And I oft notice that it is faster, peculiarly if I but desire to await upward an address or telephone divulge together with non shipping an email.

To become straight into your Google Contacts book, but type www.google.com/contacts into the address-bar of your web-browser.

This is slow - but about people would prefer to lead maintain a push that they tin click, rather than having to manually type an address.

So I lead maintain created a motion-picture exhibit that tin endure used on such a button, together with written upward instructions on how to add together it to your website, or your computer. This is licensed nether Creative Commons: I am giving permission for it to endure freely used on whatever website, hence long every bit y'all say where it came from inwards the means that I've shown below.

(If y'all a wondering "why on public would anyone desire that" - hence delight don't waste matter fourth dimension reading farther - y'all are clearly not the target audience of this post! I know that at that topographic point are about people who volition endure delighted amongst the idea, together with that's who I'm writing for today.)

How to add together a Google Contacts push to your spider web log or website

Set upward a house to position the button

If y'all desire to add together the push to Blogger, hence but add a gadget inwards the commons way, together with select gadget-type of HTML/Javascript.

If y'all desire to add together it to about other type of spider web log or website, hence y'all demand to role whatever physical care for is required to add together 3rd-party HTML to your site.

Add the code

The HTML code to add together is:

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/contacts" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYD6NFxMB0911YSAe6a8nSLSwJJKUwqmAcUnin9DFfHVDJ7gllXrB3k6wsPLAzGmgn4bICqHFB62Yo-DGTLGCFQPmL90NX43CWi9S_p9xTj9vSROSpDV80OC9ctkdpf3HuTcB6lHvbciRT/s490/google-contacts-icon.png" width="50%" /> </a></div>

Make certain y'all all all the code, including the Creative Commons license data - this is what says y'all are allowed to role the picture.

Configure the size

You tin modify the size of the push past times changing the divulge inwards this statement:

width="98%"

On my sidebar inwards Blogger-Hint-and-tips, I lead maintain it laid to 50%.

You tin role either a percent value, every bit shown, or a pixels or em measure, for example

width="50px"
width="10em"

Job done!

Save the modify inwards the commons way, together with y'all volition lead maintain a push on your website which opens Google Contacts

How to add together a Google Contacts push to your estimator / laptop / desktop

This is a footling to a greater extent than hard to describe, because it depends on just what estimator together with operating organization y'all have, together with what y'all hateful past times adding the push "to your computer". But hither are about options.

Browser Favorites

One selection is to become to www.google.com/contacts and hence before y'all create anything else relieve it to the Favourites department inwards your browser - together with hence y'all know y'all tin instruct to Contacts using your regular mesh push together with choosing it from your favourites.

In the Windows desktop

Right click on your desktop

Choose New
Choose Shortcut
In the covert that asks what y'all desire the shortcut to, piece of occupation inwards www.google.com/contacts
Click Next
Enter the Name y'all desire the link to have, eg "Google Contacts", together with click Finish

The shortcut that is added to your desktop has a criterion mesh picture. To modify it to another

Download this file to your computer, together with relieve it somewhere.
Right click on the shortcut that was created, together with select Properties.
Choose Change Icon
Choose the file that y'all saved inwards stair 1

Note: these instructions were prepared using Windows viii - they may vary slightly for before versions. But the same full general approach applies.