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Creating and Using Buttons with the Button Wizard
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
One of the most frequently asked questions we receive from our customers is "How can I make menu buttons that match the ones that came with the template I picked?" Creating new buttons which match your website perfectly is only a click or two away with the Button Wizard. Button Making Magic is easy using the Button Wizard!
Using this very cool tool, you can make perfectly matched, professional quality menu buttons for any purpose you want. The options are truly limitless and it is simple to use. We'll show you exactly how to do it below and we'll also answer the questions we think you might have in a Q & A at the end of the tutorial. Here we go ...
Let's start with how you get to the Button Wizard. If this tutorial isn't already displayed in a window separate from your website intranet, then the first thing you should do is open up a new browser window so you can follow along as we walk through using the Button Wizard.
To do that, (depending on your browser) just hold down your CTRL key and then press 'N' for 'new" and a duplicate of this window should appear. If it does not, consult your browser's help section to figure out how to open a new window or just keep reading. You also may want to print this as a reference guide.
If you aren't already logged into your website Intranet, please do so now. Then select [ Content & Design ] then [ Website Design & Links ] then [ Edit Website Design & Links ] as shown in Figure 1 (to the left).
Once you are there, you will see a screen like the one in Figure 2 (left), which displays the page editing options for your website.
On that screen select [ Menu Links ] to display all of your website's current links, like Figure 3 (right).
Then, just click on one of your links (either the current button or the text) to access the details of that menu link and then you'll see a screen like the one shown in Figure 4 (below)
On this screen, you'll see that a new button has been added to the right of the button image field. That is the link to the BUTTON WIZARD.
This button opens a popup window that is the key to this amazing tool, which will make sure your website always looks up to date and professionally designed ... by YOU. The popup window will look like Figure 5 below.
On this screen, you have several options. The top three correspond to the tabs on the top of screen. You can always use the tabs to access these three options from any screen. These options are :
- Select an Existing Custom Button
- Create a New Button from My Button Templates
- Create or Select a Button from the Button Gallery
Use this option to select a button to use from the gallery of buttons that you have previously created or uploaded.
This tool allows you to add text (and enhancement graphics) to your own blank button templates, creating unique new buttons. Blank button templates can be created or uploaded using the options below.
The built-in Button Gallery contains predefined blank buttons. You can select from these buttons and use the Button Wizard tools to edit them by adding text and other enhancement graphics. This will create unique buttons which are then automatically added to your custom buttons. The Button Gallery also offers a selection of common buttons that have already been created for you in many of the built-in blank button styles.
- Upload a Button or Blank Button Template
- Create a New Blank Button Template
Using this tool, you can upload unique custom buttons that you have created using an external graphics tool (or downloaded elsewhere) and you may also upload blank button templates to use with the button wizard to creating your own unique new buttons.
This tool allows you to create your own new blank button templates that you can then use create new buttons.
