Expression Blend 3 Animated Buttons Screenshots





Video Tutorial




The Vista Buttons add-in for Expression Web and Frontpage allows you to create powerful dropdown menu menus, directly in Expression Web, FrontPage 2000 (version 9), Microsoft FrontPage 2002 (version 10), Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 (version 11). Fully customizable appearance! Use one of the 500+ web buttons, 100 submenu designs, 6600+ icons, 50 ready-made samples, or create your own using the theme editor. With support for custom images, icons, colors, font styles, the possibilities are limitless. You'll create really nice looking website html menus and html buttons with little or no design skills at all! Create, insert, modify a website menu without leaving your favorite web development environment!



Menu, Button, and Icon Collection

Expression Web Menu provides huge collection of 1400 web buttons, 6600 icons, 300 ready-made samples, so you'll create really nice looking menus and buttons with little or nodesign skills at all! Web 2.0, Mac, iPhone, Aqua buttons, Vista, XP, transparent, round, glossy, metallic, 3d, tab menus, drop down menus will be a breeze!

Button and Icon Samples

Features

Insert button script into the existing HTML page
You can insert your button script into the existing HTML page. To do so, click "Page insert" button on the Toolbar.

Dropdown Menu Expression Web Text-based menu
You can create a menu with text-based top items. Such menu will be loaded more quickly on your website (in comparison with image-based navigation).
Menu structure is comprised of HTML nested UL and LI tags. Standards compliant menu structure is simple to customize and update.

Shared Borders And Frontpage Looks Like Create your own button themes
Theme editor helps you create your own themes or modify existing ones.

Applying Mouseover On The Expression Web Expression Blend 3 Animated Buttons Integration with popular web authoring software.
Expression Web Menu integrates with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and Expression Web as an extension/add-in. Create, insert, modify a menu without leaving your favorite web design framework!

Easy to Use
With Vista Web Buttons clear and comprehensible interface, you need just 4 simple steps to get your web buttons or html menu ready and if you use a pre-designed sample as a base you'll end up even faster!

Cost Effective
Stop paying month-to-month subscription to web image and icon collections! Don't waste your money on licenses for every new domain where you want to place the menu! Pay once, use for life, anywhere!




2.0 Buttons by Web-Buttons.com v3.0.0

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.

    Save menu

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

    Save menu name

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

    Generated 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:

    Open website in FrontPage

    - 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.

    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.

    Shared Borders dialog

    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 website in FrontPage

    - 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.

    Insert menu in FrontPage

    - 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/"

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

    - 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").

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

    - 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.

    Design mode in FrontPage

    - 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.

    Preview mode in FrontPage

    - 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.

    Result

    - 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

Please contact Customer Support at (please include template name in the message title)





FAQ









See also

Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Im going to recreate these beautiful glass buttons in Blend. Step 3: ButtonForeground layer. This layer Expression Blog; Jesse Liberty; Joe Stegmans Blog

Microsoft Expression Blend� 4 | Silverlight | Rich Internet Expression Blend � 4 transitions and animation that bring your application to life users navigate from screen to screen. Expression Blend Radio Button Style

kirupa.com - Easing Functions in Blend, Page 1 the above source files, launch Expression Blend 3 your application and hit the Play Animation button, you will see the animation of the Blend

Microsoft Expression Blend - Animating a Button Video 5min Animating a Button in Microsoft Expression Blend Views:2,305 Rating:3 Comments:0 This timeline will allow me to create an animation on the button.

Silverlight for dummies - Expression Blend (See image 3) Image 3: . Select Along with Expression Blend 2 came a new message to appear by clicking on a button. I had played for a while in Blend 2

Expression Blend Tutorials: Expression Blend Beta Preview He also covers integrating 3D content, using WPF text controls, layout controls, and user input controls, and creating animated effects. Expression Blend Beta Preview

Simple Color Animation in Blend for a Button State � Adam Kinney Simple Color Animation in Blend for a Button State it, you can download a 60-day trial of Expression Blend. April 28, 2010 at 2:20 pm | #3

Behaviors and Triggers in Silverlight 3 {Program Files}\Microsoft SDKs\Expression\Blend 3\Interactivity In order to set the animated object as well as the will associate a targeted trigger with a button, but

Animating States of Button In Blend 3 Expression Studio By Diptimaya Patra July 12, 2009. Creating a Custom Button and changing the State Animation in Blend 3 in

Expression Blend Tutorials: Expression Blend Beta Preview He also covers integrating 3D content, using WPF text controls, layout controls, and user input controls, and creating animated effects. Expression Blend Beta Preview

Why Expression Blend 3 does not record my color animation? I try to add an color animation in Expression Blend 3 to change color from "OriginalColor" to "OverColor" when mouse moves over the button. The initial style of the

Why Expression Blend 3 does not record my color animation? I try to add an color animation in Expression Blend 3 to change color from "OriginalColor" to "OverColor" when mouse moves over the button. The initial style of the

.NET developer future: Expression Blend 3: SketchFlow Microsoft Expression Blend User Guide: Prototyping with Playing an Animation (button click and other events Expression Blend 3: Effects, Projections 3D & some

kirupa.com - Easing Functions in Blend, Page 1 the above source files, launch Expression Blend 3 your application and hit the Play Animation button, you will see the animation of the Blend

Expression Blend Tutorials: Expression Blend Beta Preview He also covers integrating 3D content, using WPF text controls, layout controls, and user input controls, and creating animated effects. Expression Blend Beta Preview

Animating States of Button In Blend 3 Expression Studio By Diptimaya Patra July 12, 2009. Creating a Custom Button and changing the State Animation in Blend 3 in