{"id":40,"date":"2009-06-18T20:04:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templarcreations.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-06-18T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:04:49","slug":"buttoned-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Buttoned Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
Buttoned Up<\/div>\n
If you create gadgets or HUDs, it’s always useful to have an easy way of<\/div>\n
creating good-looking buttons for them. A quick search on Google for ‘button<\/div>\n
generators’ will produce a host of online generators — fill in (or select)<\/div>\n
some options, and a button will be created for you to download.<\/div>\n
Unfortunately, (unsurprisingly), many of them don’t work very well, or produce<\/div>\n
HTML+CSS buttons (very useful for websites, but not so useful for Second Life).<\/div>\n
I’ve been looking through them, trying to find something decent and useable,<\/div>\n
and Cool Text seems the best of the ones that appear in the first few pages:<\/div>\n
Cool Text http:\/\/cooltext.com\/Buttons<\/div>\n
However, the best one that I know of is a site which doesn’t appear in the top<\/div>\n
pages of Google at all:<\/div>\n
Da Button Factory http:\/\/dabuttonfactory.com\/#editor<\/div>\n
This let’s you customise your button in a myriad of ways, and produces some<\/div>\n
very good results. It’s well worth a look.<\/div>\n

If you create gadgets or HUDs, it’s always useful to have an easy way of\u00a0creating good-looking buttons for them. A quick search on Google for ‘button\u00a0generators’ will produce a host of online generators — fill in (or select) some options, and a button will be created for you to download.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, (and perhaps unsurprisingly), many of them don’t work very well, or produce\u00a0HTML+CSS buttons (very useful for websites, but not so useful for Second Life).<\/p>\n

I’ve been looking through them, trying to find something decent and useable,\u00a0and 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:<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a>
Click to visit the Cool Text site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, the best one that I know of is a site which doesn’t appear in the top\u00a0pages of Google at all:<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a>
Click to visit Da Button Factory site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This let’s you customise your button in a myriad of ways, and produces some\u00a0very good results. It’s well worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,22,43,85],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-links","tag-button-generators","tag-buttons","tag-graphics","tag-second-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templarcreations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}