Glossy Button Design In Expression Blend Screenshots

Video Tutorial

Menu, Button, and Icon Collection

      

Features

How to use Vista Buttons with FrontPage

To install the popup 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 popup 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 popup menu to many pages using Dynamic Web Template in FrontPage

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



- To create the Dynamic Web Template you should do the following things:
Create a new folder in the root of your website, for example "menu". In this folder create a new Blank Page and name it menu.dwt.



- Now you can add a menu in Dynamic Web Template. Open menu.dwt page (double-click menu.dwt in Folder list window) and switch to the Design view mode. Decide where you would like the popup menu to appear in your page. Click in the spot you want the code to appear in and type the phrase: your code



- 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 -->

- 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.

- 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="menu/menu-files/"



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



- Select the Preview mode to display the menu.dwt 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.



- Add editable regions to a Dynamic Web Template.
a. Open the Dynamic Web Template (.dwt) file.
b. In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design.
c. Put your cursor below the menu
d. Right-click and then click Manage Editable Regions.
e. In the Region name box, type a name for the editable region, for example, Header, Body, or Footer.
f. Click Add, and then click Close.



- Attach a Dynamic Web Template to your pages.
a. Open the Web page you want to attach a Dynamic Web Template to.
To attach the Dynamic Web Template to more than one page, select the pages you want.
     * In the Folder List, hold down CTRL and click each page you want.
     * If the Folder List is hidden, click Folder List on the View menu.
b. On the Format menu, point to Dynamic Web Template, and then click Attach Dynamic Web Template.
c. Locate and click the Dynamic Web Template (menu.dwt) you want to attach, and then click Open.
d. In the appeared windows click "Ok" and then click "Close".



- 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

• "..Please provide step by step instructions on how to create and add a button for a buttons websites menu."
  
  
• ".. I want to clone one of your vista button, make some changes, and save the changed button to a new theme and I'm having trouble figuring out how to do that."
  
  
Expressions Web Send Mail
• "..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?"
  
  
• "..As soon as I mouseover an item,  I get a broken image icon for my buttons Xp Html."
  
  
• ".. How do I call my custom javaScript with clicked after i have the working HTML export for the go buttons."
  
  
• "..I want the web page navigation bar in the top frame but the sub menus to appear in the bottom frame."
  
  

See also

A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight Timmy Kokke - weblog about WPF, Silverlight and Expression Blend / Design. By now the button should have that glossy look. This would be a nice moment to leave

Glassy Button In Silverlight 3 Design & Architecture Glassy Button In Silverlight 3 Animating States of Button In Blend 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

Expression Blend 3 and the New 'Make Into Control' Feature Abstract: The following article demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 3 to draw an object with a pencil and make that into a clickable button.

Explore .NET with Vikram Pendse: Using Expression Design for images, you can see some glossy effects, icons and buttons for your silverlight applications using Expression Design, I will Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow : New era in

Creating a Glass Button: The Complete Tutorial - Martin Grayson And what better design to follow than some of the glass buttons in our shiny new OS. fantastic tutorial on creating a "glass" button in WPF using Expression Blend .

Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Im going to recreate these beautiful glass buttons in Blend. Ill do it in such a way and your work teaches us how to become creative in the sense of UI design rather

Silverlight and the Content Presenter in an iPhone-like button You design this great looking button in Blend, turn it into a button control and In this example, Ive created a simple, glossy iPhone-like button in Expression Blend

Creating a Button with Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2 Design & Architecture This article shows how to create a Silverlight 2 application with Expression Blend 2, add a button

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

10 simple ways to make glossy button | Jayhan Loves Design Glossy button is current in thing in web design, because it is eye-catchy, pretty and friendly. Final tweak is reduce the opacity to best blend with the button. Done!

Creating your Own Vista "Chrome" Style Button - Expression Blend Expression Blend and Design. The team blog of the Expression Blend and Design products. some of the assets used in this tutorial: Download Chrome Style Button Design

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

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

Sunny Pixels | Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression I drew a button in Illustrator that later was imported to Expression Blend 3. It made it look glossy, but Expression Design does not support the

Microsoft Expression Design - How to Use Paint Brush and the Pen Microsoft Expression Design - Start Point, Reverse Path and Scissor Tools Learn how to use the tools for creating new assets in Microsoft Expression Blend 2.