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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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(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…

Very nice start, I had to do buttons for my last web app and ended up using less nicer tool.

I suggest to add next two features which can be essential for some scenarios: 1) Add way to choose background color (i.e. page color) for the formats that don't support transparency (gif and jpeg). PNG gradient transparency is not supported in IE6 and quite often there is a need to render button edges with background color preset because of that. 2) Pre-render images for other button states: hoovered and pressed.

And afterthought: consider supporting iPhone-style buttons (i.e. like big red "delete contact" button and small blue buttons), I'm sure a lot of people are looking for them.

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

#93
1. Your logo is pretty plain. Maybe make your logo be one of your buttons.

2. It would be cool to be able to replicate popular button styles of other companies, or at least similar to them.

3. I didn't see the undo/redo links until I was done. Maybe move them somewhere else, like under the center button?

4. Def need to make it easier to find colors you want. Plus more fonts like others suggested.

5. Can you automatically have it generate a "button pressed down" version?

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

#94
For the people who would like to follow the progress of Da Button Factory: there is now a development blog http://dabuttonfactory.blogspot.com. You can suscribe to its Atom feed to stay in touch, or whatever.

BTW, Da Button factory now have: color pickers, a few more fonts, a public API, a better handling of the Opera browser (but, sorry, still bad with IE), and a lot of minor improvements :-)

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