Buttoned Up

If you create gadgets or HUDs, it’s always useful to have an easy way of creating good-looking buttons for them. A quick search on Google for ‘button generators’ will produce a host of online generators — fill in (or select) some options, and a button will be created for you to download.

Unfortunately, (and perhaps unsurprisingly), many of them don’t work very well, or produce HTML+CSS buttons (very useful for websites, but not so useful for Second Life).

I’ve been looking through them, trying to find something decent and useable, and Cool Text seems the best of the ones that appear in the first few pages. The only catch seems to be that it only produces images in GIF format, so you might need to convert them before uploading them into Second Life:

However, the best one that I know of is a site which doesn’t appear in the top pages of Google at all:

This let’s you customise your button in a myriad of ways, and produces some very good results. It’s well worth a look.