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 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

• ".. How SEO friendly is the button maker software? "
  
  
• "..How can I set up Expression Web Menu dreamweaver extension?"
  
  
Expression Blend Hover Menu
• "I can add as many levels as I want in the button generate program , but just one submenu button per level in the ..."
  
  
• ".. However now I'm just wanting to edit the webpage menu itself."
  
  
• ".. are you saying the button creater will be able to generate code that will enable my google editor to link into the images"
  
  
• "..As soon as I mouseover an item,  I get a broken image icon for my buttons Xp Html."
  
  

See also

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

A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight - CodeProject Glass Orb style button in Expression Blend The glass button style we're about to create looks best on a square button By now the button should have that glossy look

CODE Magazine - Article: Building Polished UIs with Expression Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend - Part to go into the Asset Library button and Microsoft Office 2007 use this style, and it is relatively easy to create

Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Web 2.0 glass buttons in Blend. I glass button. Overall this took around 20 minutes to create using blend.

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

Microsoft Expression Blend - Animating a Button Video 5min Animating a Button in Microsoft Expression Blend This timeline will allow me to create an animation on the button. to their project and they have got my style

Creating your Own Vista "Chrome" Style Button - Expression Blend In this blog post Id like to show a way to create your own chrome like button template that can be easily modified and used over and over again using Expression

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.

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

Edit a style You can use the style of a control in Microsoft Expression Blend 2 project to specify triggers You can create a style for a button that causes the background color of

Silverlight � Vincent Leung .NET Tech Clips A very nice Silverlight 3 Glossy Button Style The code we will create can be Expression Blend was designed to work in "View Model Style", so you should have an

Create Glossy-Style Navigation Buttons in photoshop How to Create Glossy-Style Navigation Buttons in photoshop. Glossy style effect looks smooth and Select Gradient Overlay panel, change Blend Mode to Multiply, set

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.

Walkthrough: Create a Button by Using Microsoft Expression Blend steps you through the process of creating a WPF customized button using Microsoft Expression Blend. This will make the resulting style and button template

WPF Glass Button - Joe's Blog Martin Grayson has a fantastic tutorial on creating a "glass" button in WPF using Expression Blend. If you're looking to learn the basics of Blend this is a great starting

Edit a style You can use the style of a control in Microsoft Expression Blend 2 project to specify triggers You can create a style for a button that causes the background color of