FREE Online Web Button generator / Creator

I love freebies, and web utility freebie is a great way to make professional looking website even you don't know squat about web designing.

Today we are going to look at Button generator, there a zillions of Button generating Trial softwares which may be good if you generate a button a minute but all you wanted was a sweet little button that says subscribe or Home for your blog there here are some really sweet online tools and best still they are FREE !

Rollover Button
We all love glassy looking buttons and awe at the marvel they are and here is how you can make one for yourself in just 3 minutes flat !

Go to netdenizen.com
and choose the color enter the text and presto you are done !



You alge get a mouseover / rollover image great for that extra wow effect !

So here is a Technojuice button created with Netdenizen's Glassy Button:-

The only drawback is that there is not embed code with the image zip file which would have made this super easy to install, TechnoJuice to the rescue !

Just use this line of code to install and get the mouseover / rollover effect

<a href="http://www.blogger.com/link%20goes%20here">
<img name="button" onmouseover="this.src='image source button_1.png'" 
onmouseout="this.src='image source/button_0.png'" src="http://something.com/button_0.png" 
border="0" /><p></p></a>

Cool Text and button
Next on the list is CoolText.com is really useful tool to make some wicked text with EFFECTS. There are Now Gif effects like Burning is sooo 1997 and so are the effects but hey its FREE ! The this that really impresses me is the range of font (100s of them) ! So here is TechnoJuice on fire


You can also generate static button something like this


Backlink Logo button
You can get this Support Link Button or Backlink button at Dynamic Drive

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Animated Favicon With Scrolling Text for your website or Blog

You might have seen these animated Website Icons or Favicon and If you thought it takes a whole fleet of web designers to create this.



Guess what it may be simpler than you thought.


All you need is an animated gif with height and width 16x16 px. You can create one for free at http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ including scrolling text effect.

Once you have the animated Gif just include the below code to the head of your blog or Website.

<link rel="icon" href="http://somesite.com/animated_favicon.gif" type="image/gif" >

If you want to add a static favicon apart from the animated just add this code to the head

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://somesite.com/favicon.ico" >

Replace the href value with your gif location.

Check out the Demo

Unfortunately the animated icon works only in firefox and Netscape while other browsers such as Opera displays just the static icon which IE only display when added to the favorites

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