How to Create a Slick and Clean Button in Photoshop. This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to create a simple and clean "Web 2.0 style" button sprite with a rollover state.
You’ll also learn how to set up the sprite using some basic CSS techniques (CSS background sprite and CSS text image replacement). The button on this tutorial was inspired, and is modeled after, the Campaign Monitor web interface. By following along, you’ll learn how to create a very similar button. Final Result Click on the following image to see a working demo (mouse over the button to see the rollover state). Download source files If you’d like to download the source files used in this tutorial, go ahead. Campaign-monitor-button.zip (ZIP, 58 KB) Let’s get started with the tutorial, shall we? Setting up the document 1 The button’s dimension will be 250px wide and 50px high. 2 Drag a guide to the 50px mark to clearly delineate the top half and bottom half of the document.
Creating the shape 4 Drag the shape over the top half of the document. Adding some layer styles. Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Design. Importance of Usability and Search Engine Visibility by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com I was asked, some time ago, by a visitor to thesitewizard.com to take a look at her company's website, designed by a university student.
I will not give the URL for that site, partly to protect the innocent, and partly because by the time you read this, it'll probably have been modified. The site was heavy in its use of graphics with images adorning most parts of the page layout, to provide curved borders (to replace the sharp corners in enclosing boxes), different background images for different parts of the page, etc.
It had a top navigation bar, driven entirely using JavaScript. In general, that site is typical of the kind of sites produced by newcomers to web design. 1. Over the years that I have dealt with newcomers to web design, it is my observation that they tend to focus excessively (and sometimes almost exclusively) on the appearance of a website.
Don't get me wrong here. 2. 3. Conclusion. Making CSS Rollover Buttons. Tutorial by Matt Doyle | Level: Intermediate | Published on 16 April 2007 Categories: In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create easy, search-engine-friendly rollovers, using nothing but HTML, CSS and images.
No JavaScript or IMG tags in sight! Rollovers are a nice way to add visual feedback to your website's buttons. As a visitor moves their mouse over a rollover button, it changes to indicate that it's clickable. In the bad old days of HTML, the only way to create a rollover was to use JavaScript to swap the two button images. Thankfully, these days you can create a nice rollover effect using pure CSS; no JavaScript required! So how's it done? The button image The trick to making this type of rollover work smoothly is to have both the normal and rollover images stacked in a single GIF image, with the rollover state below the normal state. On the other hand, this approach avoids issues with flickering and preloading, which we'll talk about in more detail at the end of the article. <!