How to Build Toolbar for your Blog

 Conduit provides a web based custom toolbar building wizard which lets you create toolbars for Firefox and Internet Explorer within four simple steps.

You can make your toolbar feature packed by including components such as E-mail Notifier, Radio & Podcasts, Your Search Box, RSS Reader, News Ticker, Weather, Podcast and more.

Creating the toolbar is very simple, you don’t need to have any technical knowledge. Once you finish designing your toolbar, they’ll give you a URL to promote your toolbar (See the demo here). One of the biggest advantage of Conduit toolbar is that it creates toolbars for both IE & Firefox. Maintaining your toolbar is also extremely simple, if you update your toolbar, it will be automatically pushed to your users (i.e you don’t have to ask them to re-install it or update the toolbar).

Conduit keeps a track of number of toolbar downloads, this isn’t a great feature, but it does come handy for those who are very concerned about statistics.

As a reminder, I’m not a great fan of toolbars. Anything greater than two toolbars obstructs my eyes.

Check out the demo toolbar

This post was published by on January 3, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Great!
    I used to have a toolbar for my old website at studentsplace.net …

    It is awesome and I have to say its a nice tool…for FREE ;)

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Before when I signed up for it…It was called EffectiveBrand !

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Hmmm… quite a nifty tool you have shown there Thilak. I may ponder over it a while, but in the aftermath, I suppose I would not use it for Splat for the same reason as yours – I do not want the visitors to be subjected to too much encumbrance with their browsers.

  • http://www.techlive.co.nr Phalgun

    Yeah nice tool. But why will people use our toolbar when toolbars from Google or anybody else is available. RSS feeds we can read through RSS readers. Anyways this is a nice tool.

  • http://www.visualreactor.org Rohit

    Don’t you think the title “How to Built Toolbar for your Blog” does’nt sound right ? I think it should be “How to Build a Toolbar for your Blog”.

    Anyways, the whole idea seems nice although I doubt too many people will want a toolbar for one specific blog.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Thanks once again Rohit. I’m getting more and more negligent thesedays, maybe its due to the workload and stress.

    Thanks for pointing it out. I have updated the post.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay

    Have been meaning to blog about this, but like you said, being not much a fan of toolbars myself, I kept putting off. Don’t know if I will go ahead, but then again I may go create a toolbar for Techtites and my blog.

  • http://www.technobeta.com Santosh

    I’ve been using this toolbar since September :)

    Just re-introduced it into my blog this week!

  • http://shankarthetechie.blogspot.com Shankar Ganesh

    good tool!

  • http://www.techlive.co.nr/ Phalgun

    Yeah nice tool. But why will people use our toolbar when toolbars from Google or anybody else is available. RSS feeds we can read through RSS readers. Anyways this is a nice tool.