6 Online Web 2.0 Button Generators

Editor — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:17:43 +0000

This is another post in a series to help you identify useful online web tools to make your site look it’s best.

These online button generators allow you to create click-able buttons (not web badges) and download them for inclusion onto your website. The criteria for these sites was that they could create a Web 2.0 looking button and allow you to save it to you own computer. However, many of these tools have gone beyond this and provide additional tools as well.

Da Button Factory

This is one of our favorites of the group. It is simple and easy to use with a large, easy to read user interface. The real power with this tool was in the ability to Undo and redo changes that we had made.

Button Generator.Com

This online button generator does a bit more than generate cool buttons. It also generates a menu system from your buttons. The menu generator allows you to apply mouse-over effects and sub-menus as well. A very useful tool for web designers.

My Cool Button

This button generator also uses a very nice Web 2.0 style interface for creating your own buttons. The benefit of this tool is that it allows you to add an icon into your button design.

Button Boost

This tool is broken up into two different web tools; a Quick Start button generator where you start from a set or pre-defined button templates; and an Advanced button generator where you select the options for your button design and generate the button. The templates were great at helping us brainstorm a bit on what message we wanted the button to convey to our site visitors. Buttons can be generated as PNG, JPG or GIF files, depending upon your own preference.

Glassy Buttons

The user interface for this button generator is very disappointing. You would think that if you’re going to build a site that generates Web 2.0 buttons, the site should look a bit Web 2.0ish instead of a remnant of the 90′s. However, it is a very straight forward tool with no flashy effects.

As Button Generator

We’re not necessarily leaving the best for last. But this button generator provided a few more professional looking options for generating a Web 2.0 button. In fact, we feel this tool had the most options for generating buttons online. We were very impressed with the results.

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