This is actually even easier. First, because titles and urls will reformat if placed in regular urls, unlike email links, and second because Facebook has widgets that also make it easier.

Facebook has a page to show you how to create a share link, but in order to get it to work with each individual post, you’d need to use the respecting blogging platform tags. On and individual page, the code generated by the Facebook widget would work, but if you still want links from you mian page, where there’s a long list of posts, and the link should be to the individual post, then you’ll want a customized link.

For WordPress…

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?
the_permalink();
 ?>&t=<?
the_title('','',FALSE);
?>" target="_blank">Post this to Facebook</a>

For Movable Type…

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?
u=<$MTEntryPermalink$>
&t=<$MTEntryTitle$>"
target="_blank">Post this to Facebook</a>

Again, if you’d like to use an image you can find some nice Facebook icons at http://www.iconspedia.com/pack/web-2-0-social-bookmarks/ . I suggest using the linux version, since it has the type of images you’d need for a web site. Just make sure you set the border=”0″ or some browsers will put an ugly blue border around the image as it becomes a link.

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