Creating Buttons With Button Magic

Button Magic lets you create beautifully rendered, antialiased images of buttons with 2D or 3D text labels. You can turn these images into real "buttons" by adding links to them to provide functionality. You can also use Button Magic images to present high-quality eye-catching text for titling purposes. Note that you can use a virtually unlimited set of fonts for Button Magic text (as explained in Tips). Also keep in mind that you can have antialiased text without having a button.

To create buttons with Button Magic:

  1. Choose Palettes > Object Creators.

  2. On the Object Creators palette, click the Create button button . You can either sweep out a region of space in your page in which you wish your button to fit, or you can click the cursor where you want the button to be placed. (Clicking sweeps out a default region, but does not force the button to be a particular size.)

  3. Change your button as you desire--enter new text and change the fonts and font family, the size of the text, or the style of the button.

  4. Take a look at your modifications by clicking the Preview button. Your new button appears in the button display area of the Button Magic dialog, but not on your HTML page.

  5. To place the button on the HTML page, click the Apply button.

The button file that you create is stored as a GIF file in the same directory as your HTML page. (See Location of Saved Buttons for more information.)

Once you have created a button, you can modify it in a number of ways:

For further information...

See the Button Magic reference card for more details on the Button Magic dialog. You might also take a look at the Button Magic Power User Features task cards.