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Examples:
Buttons that look "native in Facebook" for fb apps
Buttons that looks "right" in a Google Gadget.
Elements for Apple Dashboard widgets.
Let me compare you to http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ which is what I used a few weeks ago when I needed a pretty image button. What I like better there: * Their button has a really sharp glossy look. Yours are nice, but not as nice (that I noticed, at least). * They have more fonts than you do. What I like better about yours: * Lots more control over most of the details. Notably, the custom color gradients. * The showc…
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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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It's definitely cool and nearly the first thing I noticed as well, but it'll confuse exactly everyone besides those with experience in both english and chinese.
True. Although I hope someday Mandarin will become second nature to lots of Americans, in the same way that Spanish "grande," "hola," etc., can be mixed with English to effect a certain attitude. Let's start with 厉害. Easy to pronounce and sounds like its meaning (at least to me).
Pretty neat site, along with looking up characters by typing or cutting and pasting you can draw them and it tries to guess what character you're looking for.
What prompted you to start with 厉害?
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If you're looking to improve the design of the site, you might be interested to know that the Chinese character for big is 大, pronounced "da4" (fourth or falling tone). The character is simple enough it should be easy to work into any site logo, and the meaning works well with your URL ("Big Button Factory"). Mandarin is also cool.
It's definitely cool and nearly the first thing I noticed as well, but it'll confuse exactly everyone besides those with experience in both english and chinese.
(Its not like single Chinese characters in isolation say "Note to English speakers who read Asian languages: this is Chinese, not Japanese or Korean. Please don't break our pun by trying to read it in one of those other languages. Thanks!")
Edited to add: If you wanted a Japanese name for the site it would probably be ビッグボタンファクトリー, pronounced Biggu Botan Fakutorii. It means... well, OK, guess you can probably figure that out.
(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…
There is always a third option: pay somebody to handle this for you. I like automated solutions as much as the next guy, but if you want quality and don't want to become a graphics design professional yourself...
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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…