[Index]

Overview of Smart Buttons
The Smart Button Wizard
Editing Smart Buttons
Using the Smart Buttons for the First Time
Implementing Smart Buttons
Using Resizable Image Components
Using Bitmapped Image Components

What is a Smart Button?

A Smart Button is a graphical page element created using the Smart Button Wizard, Namo WebEditor 4's graphical element design tool. A Smart Button can be used as a button, a banner, an icon, or for any other purpose for which ordinary images can be used.

The Smart Button Wizard provides a variety of basic shapes in nine categories, such as bullets, buttons, banners, paragraph titles, and more. After choosing a basic shape, you use the Wizard to customize its appearance.

Smart Buttons are vector-based images, so they can be resized with no loss of sharpness. The Smart Button Wizard makes it easy to design custom buttons, banners, and other graphical page elements. You can edit a previously-created Smart Button by double-clicking it in the Edit window. Smart Buttons can have fancy graphical effects like adjustable gradients and drop shadows. The Smart Button Wizard provides all the tools you need to create attractive, customized Web graphics, so you don't need to use external image editing software.

 

Smart Buttons can be used as:

  • Banners and paragraph titles
    With the Smart Button Wizard, you can create attractive graphical banners and paragraph titles for your Web documents. You can either customize the predesigned banners or create your own custom banner or title from scratch. 

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  • Table titles
    You can create a Smart Button to use as a graphical title for a table, as in the examples below.
     
  • Labels, bullets, and dividers
    The Smart Button Wizard also provides many colorful shapes for labels, bullets, and dividers. Instead of using clip art images, you can create custom graphics for these page elements and decorate and resize them as you like.

       

 

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This document was created using Namo WebEditor 4 on November 27, 2000.
 

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