Quick Tip: Good Looking Buttons for Your Web Site

Would you like professional looking custom buttons for your web site?  A lot of people have web sites that look like they are stuck in a time machine and were originally built around 1995. Here’s the quick and dirty way that I make nice professional buttons for my web sites using Microsoft Office tools.

1. Open Powerpoint

• Open Microsoft Office Powerpoint and create a blank presentation with a white background (or background that matches your site)
• Create a blank slide
• Use the “Drawing” tool to create a nice button in the shape you want (example below)
• Type some text into the button
• Click on the “Quick Styles” button to pick a nice 3D style shading and color
• Here is a sample made with the rounded rectangle drawing tool and a “Quick Style” pick of blue with shading on the borders

2.  Now Use Microsoft OneNote to Clip and Save It

• Open your copy of OneNote
• Open a blank page in OneNote
• Use the “Clip” tool to make a screen clipping of your button from the powerpoint window
• Right click on your clipping in OneNote to save it as a graphics file

That’s it – now you can upload your saved button into WordPress or include it on your web page as an image.

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