Create Expression Blend Glossy Button Style Screenshots

Video Tutorial

Menu, Button, and Icon Collection

      

Features

How to use Vista Buttons with FrontPage

To install the drop menu into your html page you should do the following things:

1). Create and save your buttons in any temp folder using Vista Buttons application. You canuse "Save as HTML" function.




You can enter any name you like, for example enter "menu":



So you'll have menu.html file and "menu-files" folder with all menu files.



2). You can add javascript drop menu to a single page or to many pages using Shared Borders, Include Page or Dynamic Web Template so that you won't have to add it into each page separately.

Insert a javascript menu to many pages by shared borders in FrontPage

- Start FrontPage and open your website. When the website opens, it should look like this:



- To create the shared border page you should do the following things:
Choose "Format/Shared Borders..." from the main menu. This will bring up the Shared Borders dialog.



- Make sure "All pages" is chosen in the 'Apply to' section. Check the "Top" checkbox to activate the top shared border page and click the OK button to close the dialog.
A new subfolder should appear in the Folder List section in the main FrontPage window with the top.htm file in it. This is our top shared border page.



Notice that you can choose any other shared border position to install the drop menu as well.

- Now you can add a menu for your site. Open the shared border page (double-click top.htm in Folder list window) and switch to the Design view mode. Decide where you would like the menu to appear in your page. Click in the spot you want the code to appear in and type the phrase: your code here



- Open the generated in Vista Buttons menu.htmlpage in any text editor. Copy all code within the following tags:
      <!-- Begin Vista-Buttons.com -->
        ...
      <!-- End Vista-Buttons.com -->

- Go back to FrontPage. Switch to HTML View. Go to the "Edit Menu" with FrontPage and select the "Paste" option to paste the menu code that we copied to the clipboard earlier. Since the phrase we typed was highlighted, it will be replaced when we paste the code in.



- To display the mouseover state images correctly you should change vbImgPath parameter. Find the following code
var vbImgPath="menu-files/"
and change it to
var vbImgPath="_borders/menu-files/"



- Now you should copy the "menu-files" folder into the same folder with your top.html shared border. (You should show hidden files to see files of your website. Go to "Tools/Folder options").





- Notice that in the Design mode your menu may be displayed not in the proper way. You should view the menu in the Preview mode.



- Select the Preview mode to display the top.html page live (in Internet Explorer). Notice that your mouseover images can be not displayed when you hover over menu items in the Preview mode. It is normal. You'll see all images when you open index.htm page in the Preview mode.



- That's all. You've added all necessary code to your page, so let's test it. Open your index page (double-click index.htm in Folder list window) and switch to the Preview mode.



- If everything goes well, save and publish your website. If something seems wrong, double-check that you followed all the steps correctly.

- If you still run into trouble, we'd be happy to assist you further. You can post your problem to us at , and meanwhile describe your files in details.

Support

FAQ

• "..The submenu of a menu buttons do not appear in front of a flash movie, it is allways under it. "
  
  
• ".. How SEO friendly is the button maker software? "
  
  
Video Tutorial Expression Web Megaupload Rapidshare
• "..Can I set the pressed state of a javascript Expression Web Menu after the page loads?"
  
  
• "..As soon as I mouseover an item,  I get a broken image icon for my buttons Xp Html."
  
  
• ".. are you saying the button creater will be able to generate code that will enable my google editor to link into the images"
  
  
• "..How do I make the sub-menu backgrounds non-transparent so that web page text that is behind the sub-menus when the website menus open does not appear?"
  
  

See also

Microsoft Expression Design - How to Use Paint Brush and the Pen How to Use the Tools for Creating New Assets in MS Expression Blend 2 214 views Learn how to use the tools for creating new assets in Microsoft Expression Blend 2.

silverlight 2 - expression blend - styles and templates Properties that are set in the custom style or template that is used by a control An example is if you were to create a button in Expression Blend and then modify a copy

SketchFlow Styles in Blend 3 Search Expression Blend + SketchFlow Forum menu which gives you the option "Set As Default Style". From this point, if you create say a button

Articles for tag: Expression Blend WynApse.com is privately owned and dedicated to the exploration of emerging technologies. At the forefront of that exploration now is a study of Silverlight, providing

Design Tutorials : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site Glossy/Glassy buttons like Vista. Perhaps Blend path tool in Expression Design (don't confuse with Expression Blend) can often create or various gradient styles

Create a glassy button in Expression Blend - About QA the If you havent already seen it, I have produced a video tutorial looking at how to create a button style in Expression Blend. Incidentally, I have also put my video

Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Buttons | Free Photoshop Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Buttons. 10. Sep, 2007 30 Comments Creating the Buttons. As Ive said once before, theres two ways of

Glassy Button In Silverlight 3 Expression Studio By Diptimaya Patra July 19, 2009. Making Glassy Buttons In Silverlight 3.

Articles for tag: Expression Blend WynApse.com is privately owned and dedicated to the exploration of emerging technologies. At the forefront of that exploration now is a study of Silverlight, providing

silverlight 2 - expression blend - styles and templates Properties that are set in the custom style or template that is used by a control An example is if you were to create a button in Expression Blend and then modify a copy

Building Polished UIs with Expression BlendPart 1 With Expression Blend, Microsoft provides a great tool to create such Template" button, which launches the Create use this style, and it's relatively easy to create.

Design Tutorials : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site Glossy/Glassy buttons like Vista. Perhaps Blend path tool in Expression Design (don't confuse with Expression Blend) can often create or various gradient styles

SilverZine Tutorial - Make Controls From Scratch - Toggle Button in Blend 3 to create a toggle button to create a simple toggle button that has an on and off state using the Make in to a control feature in Expression Blend 3 its style

Creating WPF buttons with Expression Blend and Expression Design Microsoft portal site for the Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developer community. Download samples, download controls, post to the forums, read

Creating a Button with Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2 This article shows how to create a Silverlight 2 application with Expression Blend 2, add a button to it and set its various properties.

Search: Expression Blend 3 Styles and Templates video on how to create a light glossy 3D effect for a Silverlight 3 Textblock control with Expression Blend available for creating Expression blend