This is great, works very simply and the results look fantastic! I've just created a few to buttons to use on my latest project and they're perfect for my needs - all in less time than it would take to open up PS and create just one button! An awesome app and I wish you every success with it, I second the call for a PayPal link/contribute link, I think many a time-starved designer would happily drop a few $ your way in gratitude.
Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#22(Web) design is hard. For us programmers, it's a pain in the ass, and when it comes to create UI elements for a (web) app, we are stuck with two choices: 1. create something very basic, or 2. spend countless hours searching the web for Photoshop tutorials on how to create a bubble or depth effect, then spend even-more-countless hours fighting with Photoshop to implement it, and finally, maybe adapt the image with som…
Excellent. How does it work? :)
The images are queried by Ajax to the server, where a Fast-CGI Perl script generates, caches, and sends the images.
Javascript is used, obviously for the Ajax job, for some small visual effects, and to generate the CSS code.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#23(Web) design is hard. For us programmers, it's a pain in the ass, and when it comes to create UI elements for a (web) app, we are stuck with two choices: 1. create something very basic, or 2. spend countless hours searching the web for Photoshop tutorials on how to create a bubble or depth effect, then spend even-more-countless hours fighting with Photoshop to implement it, and finally, maybe adapt the image with som…
Un travail bien fait!
I'd like to see some more font options. The stock web fonts tend to look a little stale because we see them in so many places.
It would also make things slightly easier if there was a download button next to the web address--this might be tricky to implement but it would save users several seconds.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#24Very nice indeed! I agree with yef that you need a simple method to create a hover and click versions for each of the buttons.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#25(Web) design is hard. For us programmers, it's a pain in the ass, and when it comes to create UI elements for a (web) app, we are stuck with two choices: 1. create something very basic, or 2. spend countless hours searching the web for Photoshop tutorials on how to create a bubble or depth effect, then spend even-more-countless hours fighting with Photoshop to implement it, and finally, maybe adapt the image with som…
Un travail bien fait! I'd like to see some more font options. The stock web fonts tend to look a little stale because we see them in so many places. It would also make things slightly easier if there was a download button next to the web address--this might be tricky to implement but it would save users several seconds.
Merci !
Yes, I should definitely add more fonts, it's useful. But does anyone know if embedding open sources fonts is fully legal? And what about commercial fonts, i.e: Arial, Comic sans MS, etc.? It is quite difficult to understand the licences for my usage.
For the download button: yes, I know it would be nice, I thought about it, but decided to delay its implementation, because as you say, it will certainly be tricky to make :-D It will come!
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#26This is great, works very simply and the results look fantastic! I've just created a few to buttons to use on my latest project and they're perfect for my needs - all in less time than it would take to open up PS and create just one button! An awesome app and I wish you every success with it, I second the call for a PayPal link/contribute link, I think many a time-starved designer would happily drop a few $ your way…
Thanks a lot, it's so nice and grateful to see people enthusiast about it! The pleasure to serve :-)
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Un travail bien fait! I'd like to see some more font options. The stock web fonts tend to look a little stale because we see them in so many places. It would also make things slightly easier if there was a download button next to the web address--this might be tricky to implement but it would save users several seconds.
Merci ! Yes, I should definitely add more fonts, it's useful. But does anyone know if embedding open sources fonts is fully legal? And what about commercial fonts, i.e: Arial, Comic sans MS, etc.? It is quite difficult to understand the licences for my usage. For the download button: yes, I know it would be nice, I thought about it, but decided to delay its implementation, because as you say, it will certainly be tri…
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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#28Looks great. Found a bug though. You've reversed the horizontal and vertical padding around the text. Adding vertical padding puts it to the left/right, when it should put it on the top/bottom.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Un travail bien fait! I'd like to see some more font options. The stock web fonts tend to look a little stale because we see them in so many places. It would also make things slightly easier if there was a download button next to the web address--this might be tricky to implement but it would save users several seconds.
Merci ! Yes, I should definitely add more fonts, it's useful. But does anyone know if embedding open sources fonts is fully legal? And what about commercial fonts, i.e: Arial, Comic sans MS, etc.? It is quite difficult to understand the licences for my usage. For the download button: yes, I know it would be nice, I thought about it, but decided to delay its implementation, because as you say, it will certainly be tri…
For the button, just manipulate the 'href' attribute of the download button the same as you would update the textfield value.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excellent. How does it work? :)
The images are queried by Ajax to the server, where a Fast-CGI Perl script generates, caches, and sends the images. Javascript is used, obviously for the Ajax job, for some small visual effects, and to generate the CSS code.
You should port this project to canvas. It may be tricky to get it working in all browsers but the response time would be much faster and the server load would be reduced. I'd be willing to help with the implementation- sounds like a really cool project.