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GOTO Software ButtonFly
By Kelly Lu - June 5, 2001
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Buttons, buttons, everywhere buttons! This is a very true fact as the majority of sites out there, everywhere from small personal pages to huge corporate sites, will utilize at least a button or two somewhere in their website. Ok, ok, I admit that OnePC doesn't use any buttons (at least, none that I can think of right now), but the fact remains that the majority of sites will have at least a few buttons lying around (I bet that if you visit some of our Affiliates, you'll see that that fact is very true).
Making these small buttons shouldn't be too tough or use up too many resources, right? Wrong! If you're looking to create attractive buttons for your website, you're going to have to at least spend a few bucks on a image-editing package such as Paint Shop Pro for your button needs and then spend even more time fiddling around with its features just to create a simple 100x25 button; not very economical or efficient.
That's why today we're looking at a neat little program called ButtonFly by GOTO Software. ButtonFly is a program that'll, well, make buttons and more buttons until you're sick of seeing buttons! So, without further a do, let's check it out!
First Impressions
Upon installing and starting ButtonFly, I was greeted with a very smooth interface with butterflies in the background. Creating a new project involved all of a few clicks of the mouse, and the program even allows the user to pick between using up to 7 languages for their buttons (including English, "American,"-finally, a company that distinguishes "American" from "English"-French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch); a bit of overkill, if you ask me, but the extra language support is very nice to have.
Unfortunately, most new users will start to get a bit confused because of all the features built into the project window. Upon closer inspection and some random fiddling, I was able to figure out the basics of using the program. The project creation is split into three steps-template creation, data input and image generation. Let's deal with the template creation first.
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