Can someone make me a very simple web button?

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Hi all,

I've spent about 45 minutes looking for something like this but can't see it anywhere.

Basically I need a blue raised oval web button, about 150 or 200 px wide. It should be a gif or something so that it can go on top of another background.

This is really really basic but we don't have the software at work to do it.
 
button.gif


button.png

That sort of thing?
 
SherberT* - Would you mind telling me how you got the 2nd oval like that? Without the white jagged edges? I'll need to make a logo for a website soon and I want the logo to have a transparent background so I can use it on different colour schemes of the same site.

I made a quick logo in Paint.net with a transparent background. But when I put the logo into a sample webpage I was cursed with the white jaggedy edges.

Am I better off using something like the Gimp for this or can I still use Paint.net to get what I want?
 
MarcLister said:
SherberT* - Would you mind telling me how you got the 2nd oval like that? Without the white jagged edges? I'll need to make a logo for a website soon and I want the logo to have a transparent background so I can use it on different colour schemes of the same site.

I made a quick logo in Paint.net with a transparent background. But when I put the logo into a sample webpage I was cursed with the white jaggedy edges.
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Its simply a different filetype. Instead of using gifs use pngs, as they preserve the borders.
 
MarcLister said:
SherberT* - Would you mind telling me how you got the 2nd oval like that? Without the white jagged edges? I'll need to make a logo for a website soon and I want the logo to have a transparent background so I can use it on different colour schemes of the same site.

I made a quick logo in Paint.net with a transparent background. But when I put the logo into a sample webpage I was cursed with the white jaggedy edges.

Am I better off using something like the Gimp for this or can I still use Paint.net to get what I want?
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The second one is a png, which if your using FF will work very nicely and doesnt have to use a matte colour edge like the gif does. However, as so many people are still on IE6, using PNGs is dangerous because without doing some extra site coding IE6 will display a nice background for a png.

Ive not used paint.net, but i imagine something more powerful like GIMP is required. You need to have some detailed transparency options.
 
IE7 displays them - just use gifs for IE6 and let people who can be bothered to update their browsers have the better browsing experience
 
Thanks very much guys. So FF/IE7/Opera etc are OK with PNGs? It is only IE6 and earlier that have problems with PNGs?

I suppose there is a way to make the website offer a GIF file if the browser is IE6? I will be using XHTML/CSS sheets so can I make some kind of hack? I think I've seen something along these lines for Plone.
 
have a look at conditional comments - it'll allow you to serve IE6 users with a specific stylesheet containing gifs instead of pngs
 
Thing is though, so long as they have no reason to upgrade (e.g. websites work in IE6), people will keep using it. If they start noticing things that don't work properly, people are more likely to update. I think it's time people stop tolerating IE6 :mad:

Saying this, I always make sure the site works in IE6. Not out of choice, mind. If I owned a personal site I wouldn't test it for IE6; instead I'd have a pop-up saying "Upgrade or suffer" or similar :p

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/
http://bjorkoy.com/past/2007/4/8/the_easiest_way_to_png/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/index.htm
 
Sic said:
have a look at conditional comments - it'll allow you to serve IE6 users with a specific stylesheet containing gifs instead of pngs
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Much appreciated. I shall start looking at that. :)
furnace said:
Thing is though, so long as they have no reason to upgrade (e.g. websites work in IE6), people will keep using it. If they start noticing things that don't work properly, people are more likely to update. I think it's time people stop tolerating IE6 :mad:

Saying this, I always make sure the site works in IE6. Not out of choice, mind. If I owned a personal site I wouldn't test it for IE6; instead I'd have a pop-up saying "Upgrade or suffer" or similar :p

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/
http://bjorkoy.com/past/2007/4/8/the_easiest_way_to_png/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/index.htm
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Hehe! I know what you mean. :) IE7 > IE6 but FF/Opera > IE7.

This for a University final year project by the way. And I've just found loophole in my project plan that could get me out of the IE6 problem. :D What I've said is that I have to get my website to render "identically in the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera". So I will interpret that as being IE7, Firefox 2.x.x.x and Opera 9.2x. ;) I didn't write IE6 into the plan so I can ignore it.

I bet my project supervisor will want IE6 compatability though. :( I might just sneak in a replacement logo for IE6 but not a replacement of the actual logo. Some cheeky comment about IE6 and how you might want to upgrade. :p
 
Its up to you, but for me and my university work the percentage of users still on IE6 (> 30%) is too large to irritate with messages telling them to upgrade.

I dislike being told I need to upgrade something unless its absolutely vital, it really is discouraging.

Unless your dissertation is on factors of web browsing that discourage users? :p
 
gord said:
Its up to you, but for me and my university work the percentage of users still on IE6 (> 30%) is too large to irritate with messages telling them to upgrade.

I dislike being told I need to upgrade something unless its absolutely vital, it really is discouraging.
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Oh it is absolutely vital. VITAL I tell ye. :p If the problem is solvable using a fix in CSS I will probably sort it out. But seeing as I didn't specifically mention IE6 in my project plan I might not. Depends on what my project supervisor thinks.

gord said:
Unless your dissertation is on factors of web browsing that discourage users? :p
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I like your thinking. :D
 
I agree with furnace - however, I've managed to convince my boss that things should just work in IE6, but they shouldn't get any of the extra polish, just because of all the extra work you have to put in - I simply don't have time to mess about for days getting things right for an old browser!! So yeah, sites degrade, and keep all functionality - they just don't have all the nice prettiness and sparkle that other browsers get.

and out of personal preference - they don't get a message saying 'your browser sucks'
 
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