Free Web Buttons - Free Graphic Button Maker

Free Web Buttons: is an easy-to-use freeware web graphics button maker. Open the program and choose a theme; Blue, Homestead, or Metallic. Then select a button from the "Theme buttons" section. You won't find any extremely fancy buttons, but you will find some pretty nice looking ones, including 3D, tabs, and round corners.

If you want a specific size of button, uncheck "Autosize" and enter a Width and height. It will accept sizes up to 150 pixels (which is unfortunate because if you could set larger sizes, you could use this program to create some nice looking banners).

In the "Caption" text box, enter your buttons text and choose a font color, size, style, and if you want shadow. In the "Hint" text box, enter the text you want to appear in the "tool-tip" that pops up when the user moves the mouse pointer over the button.

In the "Link" text box, enter the link you want to transfer the user to when they click on the button, and choose a "target" from the drop-down list. For example "_self" would replace the webpage with the button with the webpage pointed to by the link, "_top" would load the new webpage into a new browser window, "_parent" would load the new webpage into the window that spawned the webpage containing the button.

To save the button, select "Save As" in the "File" menu and in the "Save As" dialog box navigate to the folder where you want to save the button. Enter a file name and in the "Save as type:" drop down list, choose a file type (only *.fwb and *.html are available). If you choose *.html, the program will create a webpage and a subfolder containing the buttons graphic.

The webpage has the button coded inside a single cell table. You can edit the code, removing the button link from the table and adding the button's width and height attributes and then paste it into your webpage.

You won't find any extremely fancy buttons, nor images or code to create mouse-over effects, but this program will make some very nice buttons. It's light-weight (only a 610 KB download), includes a proper install/uninstall utility, and it's freeware. Give it a try!