Expression Design Tutorials Skinned 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

Fonts, Borders and Background Colors
Use any necessary font of any color, size and font decoration for normal and mouseover state. Create any available type, thickness and color of a menu's frame. Choose any color for backgrounds of submenus and items.

Expression Web 3 Button Html High Quality and Professional Results
You don't have to know HTML, JavaScript, CSS or any other coding languages to make multi-state rollover web buttons, professional cross-browser, search engine friendly DHTML menus. All you have to do is make some clicks and adjust buttons as you wish for them to appear. Vista Web Buttons will generate all necessary images, html, javascripts, css styles automatically!

Sample Design Front Pages Search Engine Friendly
Expression Web Menu generates html code which is transparent to search spiders.

Frontpage Button Styles Expression Design Tutorials Skinned Buttons Orientation of the Menu
Create both horizontal and vertical menus and submenus with any amount of menus on one page.

Fully Customizable
Every button or menu parameter can be easily customized in Expression Web Menu to fit your web site design and your needs. Create your very own html menus, as simple or as complex as you want!

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.




2.0 Buttons by Web-Buttons.com v3.0.0

How to use Vista Buttons with FrontPage

    To install the dropdown 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 dropdown 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 dropdown menu to a single page in FrontPage

    - Start FrontPage and open the web page that you will be inserting the script into. When the page opens, it should look like this:

    Insert menu 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. In the Design mode decide where you would like the dropdown menu to appear in your page. It helps you add the menu code in the correct place. We have decided to place it at the top of the page. Click in the spot you want the code to appear in and type the phrase: your code here

    Insert menu in FrontPage

    - We will now be inserting the JavaScript code into the body section right where we typed the phrase in the previous step. To do this, switch to HTML View.

    Insert menu in FrontPage

    - 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

    - Now you should copy the "menu-files" folder into the same folder with your index.html page.

    Copy menu files in FrontPage

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

    Design mode in FrontPage

    - That's all. You've added all necessary code to your page, so let's test it. Select the Preview mode to display the page live (in Internet Explorer).

    Result

    - If everything goes well, save your document and upload it and the "menu-files" folder to your web site. 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

Expression Design Tutorials - TutorialKit.com learn to use another popular design authoring tool - Expression Design

Expression Design Tutorials Expression Design Tutorials Creating a Very Simple Gel-button. by Jesse Brown and Total Training. Get more Expression training from

Expression Design Tutorials Expression Design Tutorials Creating a Very Simple Gel-button. by Jesse Brown and Total Training. Get more Expression training from

Windows Blinds skinned rollover(hover) buttons, TipofDay, Date Articles & tutorials; Recommended reading; Top Code Blinds, Adobe, & Neoplanet style skinned rollover (hover) buttons to Simple ADO Filter (Expression Builder) for VB6. By

Image Button and Simulate Windows Media Player UI - CodeProject In a skinned form, some buttons look irregular, but indeed it is only draw a gray rectangle on the button in design time Write an Android Tutorial, Win a Droid X! Have an

Image Button and Simulate Windows Media Player UI - CodeProject In a skinned form, some buttons look irregular, but indeed it is only draw a gray rectangle on the button in design time Write an Android Tutorial, Win a Droid X! Have an

Adobe Photoshop tutorials - Glossy button Adobe Photoshop tutorials / Web Graphics - Glossy button - Tutorial of making Turn a light-skinned person into a dark (Adobe Photoshop Poster and Ad Design Tips

Another Expression Design Tutorial Shiny Vista buttons Looking at my blog stats, the most popular articles seem to be those with links to Expression Design tutorials. So, here is another one for your pleasure: how to create

SilverZine Tutorial - Create a fire button with Expression Design This tutorial will show you how to create a button that looks as if it has a fire lurking inside. The tutorial will use both Expression Design and Expression Blend.

Microsoft Expression Tutorials This includes Expression Media, Expression Blend, Expression Design, and Expression Web tutorials. can make pictures look like their framed, make them look like buttons

Design Tutorials : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site Is there any good Expression Design / Blend etc tutorials for making sleek Re: Design Tutorials. 04-21-2008 8:32 PM | I also don Animating States (like buttons, selected

Creating your Own Vista "Chrome" Style Button - Expression Blend Here is the expression design file with some of the assets used in this tutorial: Download Chrome Style Button Design File. Have fun! Sam Paye

gallery.expression.microsoft.com SilverZine Tutorial - Create Circular Rotating Text in Expression

Expression Design Tutorials Expression Design Tutorials Creating a Very Simple Gel-button. by Jesse Brown and Total Training. Get more Expression training from

Button Controls - CodeProject Button Controls - Free source code and tutorials for Software developers and Design and Architecture; Running a Business regular-expression

Another Expression Design Tutorial Shiny Vista buttons Looking at my blog stats, the most popular articles seem to be those with links to Expression Design tutorials. So, here is another one for your pleasure: how to create