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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

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Post by rams »

palsecam wrote: post #18
jrnkntl wrote: post #13

It doesnt work in IE7 (stuck on this browser at the University Library, so no alternative). The progress indicator keeps going.

Sorry, I didn't try with IE7 :-/ I could just put my hands on an old IE6 version to test the render. I'll definitely install a virtual machine or smthg :-) Thanks for the report.

Check out browsershots - http://browsershots.org/ . I think you can submit a job to check how a page renders on a specific OS-browser combination. Otherwise you can download and check it out - it's open source.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by GavinB »

palsecam wrote: post #25
GavinB wrote: post #23

Earlier 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…

I would think that as long as you're not distributing the font file you should be fine. If you want to be safe, go for fonts that are distributed free, and provide credit somewhere on the site.

If you stick to free or standard fonts, I think the worst that happens is that you have to take them down, especially since you're not charging for use.

And whatever you do, don't use comic sans (http://bancomicsans.com/home.html).

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by savrajsingh »

I like this! Great job. I'd include a small gallery of many great examples on the front page, and as soon as you click an example, it prepop's the settings. You've already got this feature, but it starts from another page. You could keep prepopulating this gallery with buttons that others are creating. :) Again, this is awesome and useful! And the button quality looks pretty good.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by savrajsingh »

savrajsingh wrote: post #34

I like this! Great job. I'd include a small gallery of many great examples on the front page, and as soon as you click an example, it prepop's the settings. You've already got this feature, but it starts from another page. You could keep prepopulating this gallery with buttons that others are creating. :) Again, this is awesome and useful! And the button quality looks pretty good.

couple other things -- the layout looks a little weird on firefox on mac, and you definitely need color pickers (as I'm sure others have mentioned as well). ;)

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by ii »

palsecam wrote: post #2

(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…

1. More fonts. Lacuna is a first one that comes to my mind as a perfect free font for this kind of things.

2. Highlight curve should be more like sine wave, It looks really boring when it is like a bottom of ellipse -- a part of a sine curve would be a better approximation of real-world shinies.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by richcollins »

palsecam wrote: post #2

(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…

This is pretty nice. I would like to see:

1. More Fonts 2. A color picker

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by raptrex »

richcollins wrote: post #37
palsecam wrote: post #2

(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…

This is pretty nice. I would like to see: 1. More Fonts 2. A color picker

i agree, add a color picker and maybe have all of the options on one side

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

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Post by dbul »

dbul wrote: post #38

Absolutely Genius! I've never wanted to pay for something more in my life. Why not use the ycombinator startup tipjoy? ( http://tipjoy.com )

One thing I just noticed is that these fonts do not support Japanese. In earlier threads there was mention of adding more fonts so I'm sure you'll add them eventually.
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