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Bill Zeller created a very cool web application that creates blog stickers with any text and colors you want, so I put together a user interface to it. Continue reading...

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Matt May 22, 2003 8:38 AM

A great color picker in DHTML is ColorMatch, found at www.colormatch.dk

Trackback from Joe Grossberg
May 22, 2003 8:53 AM
Button Updates
Excerpt: Minimal Verbosity put together a fun PHP hack that will let you make your own buttons on the fly. The...

will May 22, 2003 2:08 PM

Doesn’t seem to work in Opera… had to cut/paste the URL into IE for it to go

Jickup May 22, 2003 2:43 PM

Doesn’t work in Mozilla either. I can’t run IE so I don’t get to play.

Adam Kalsey May 22, 2003 3:17 PM

It’s workiing in Mozilla 1.3 and Opera 7.1 on Windows for me. Are you getting any errors? What isn’t working.

Trackback from charleshartman.org
May 22, 2003 4:59 PM
button in cheek
Excerpt: Please see this entry at dollarshort.org…mucho clever. Blogging community self-deprecation is a good and noble thing. I have been restraining myself on these buttons, only having two at the moment :) … but I’ll add a couple more.̷...

Eric Meyer May 23, 2003 8:28 AM

Excellent tool! If you want, you can use the color-palette script I wrote for http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ . If not, there should be plenty more out there.

Trackback from kurcula.com
May 23, 2003 5:22 PM
Those nifty buttons
Excerpt: If you didn't steal any of those nice-looking buttons, go and make 'em. Coding by Bill Zeller and GUI...

Chris Pirillo May 27, 2003 7:19 PM

Nice, but I think this is the future:

http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssinlinebuttons/

I’ve already employed ‘em.

meg May 29, 2003 12:27 AM

Exactly what we were looking for. Thanks.

Blake May 29, 2003 11:13 AM

It shows how much fun you can have with so little. What a blast!

Kyle June 2, 2003 9:59 PM

The left box text alignment wouldn’t work for me in IE 6.

JANE June 13, 2003 3:04 PM

Read my post in todays blog.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002626/

Stacey June 20, 2003 11:03 AM

Tried to make the button longer, to accomodate a longer blog name, but no such luck. Is there a way to make it longer? Other than that, I love it.

Fred Grott June 23, 2003 11:16 AM

another color picker can be found at w3cschools.org..

very nice

Trackback from just a.juby
July 6, 2003 7:36 AM
buttony goodness
Excerpt: If you've noticed on the mockup, I use a series of buttons from a collection entitled "Steal These Buttons". These...

Trackback from Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt
July 22, 2003 10:21 PM
4096 Color Wheel
Excerpt: I've been looking for a nice 4096 color picker forever. Yesterday I found one by D10n, somone who is long 404, which was close to what I wanted. Unfortunately it didn't work in Mozilla or Mac IE, which meant it...

Brian July 31, 2003 7:51 PM

You might also try SoftComplex’s Tigra Color Picker; info at http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigracolorpicker/index.html and demo at http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigracolorpicker/demo1.html

Cory August 17, 2003 10:43 AM

This might be a stupid question, but in order to create one of these stickers with an image in the left box, would I just need to create a button with a blank left box, then add the image via Photoshop?

Adam Kalsey August 17, 2003 12:47 PM

You could do that, or simply make the whole button in Photoshop. The font used is Jason Kottke’s freeware Silkscreen from http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/index.html

pnkm September 5, 2003 8:04 PM

I can’t use any words with éèàùç…

Makka October 31, 2003 2:04 PM

German chars don’t work!

Marvin Rouge November 20, 2003 6:48 AM

it seems that the bill zeller site is very often down for bandwith exceed so your user interface does not work. Why wouldn’t you import the script so it will consume your bandwith ?

fungkur January 6, 2005 7:12 AM

thanks for the button maker.. now i have my own button.. hehe.. http://fungkurs-network.net/images/linkbutton.gif

Trackback from Found Blogging Design
August 30, 2005 9:01 PM
Auto generate buttons
Excerpt: Adam Kelsey created a web friendly user interface, using the coding of Bill Zeller, to easily make blog stickers (buttons) with your web browser. This is a very simple and quick program, suitable for those who don’t have photoshop or the like. Here ...

Rolando Garza March 9, 2006 12:43 AM

Hello Adam. I was wondering if you had your own button with which I could link to you?

Btw, I’m now officially an 80x15 button addict. Thanks for such a great UI.

Paul J April 11, 2006 2:22 PM

ok, so I made the button, how do I Download it to my site?


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