Really Simple Fancy Item Link Tooltips via Thotbott

I’d been resisting adding some sort of script to do fancy item links (like this) to this blog. I don’t link to that many items — not like some people! — and anyway it seemed like a lot of work.

But Thotbott recently added a nice feature for bloggers who want to have their fancy links without a lot of hassle. Just insert a small line of script somewhere in your HTML (mine is in my included header file) and voila! Fancy item links. There’s also a Thotbott search field you can insert into your page and a couple of other goodies as well. One thing I really like about this method: If I decide not to use the fancy tooltips, I can just remove the script call and all my links continue to function as normal.

Now, I know a lot of you prefer Wowhead or other database sites, but I’m partial to Thotbott. I like the color; I like the layout; I like the fact that there is a lot of history in many of the comment threads. There are a few areas where I’d like to see more — for instance, help finding reputation quests — but then other sites have their own missing information. It’s not easy keeping even a small niche site up to date — I can just imagine how hard keeping a site on the whole shebang must be.

At any rate, for now I have cool fancy item link tooltips without any sort of hassle — so I’m happy!

5 Comments

  1. Horns - November 17th, 2007 @ 6:52 pm EST

    This is great, but I wish I could do it for Wowhead. I hate Thottbot TBH :(

  2. Gauntlet - November 19th, 2007 @ 1:48 pm EST

    Ooh. Shiny.

    I swapped to using Wowhead for information because Thottbot seemed to be running super-slow when I alt-tabbed to it from within WoW, and Wowhead wasn’t.

    Too be honest though, I tend to check both for information, and I like Thottbot more now that I have it set to a black background.

  3. Horns - November 20th, 2007 @ 2:21 pm EST

    You can use Wowhead now also:
    http://www.wowhead.com/?powered

  4. Hynjoku - December 17th, 2007 @ 12:00 pm EST

    Very nice!

    I recently started adding tooltips to my site via Wowhead and the Itemstats plugin.

  5. Wowhead Goes Berserk! | Yet Another Warlock Nerf - May 11th, 2008 @ 9:31 am EDT

    [...] it was too much trouble for me to try and fix it. If you prefer Thottbot over Wowhead, you can check Mania’s Arcania - it works pretty much the same way. [...]

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