Creating Little Buttons/Banners for Blogs

March 25, 2005 2:34 PM

I have a feeling that somewhere online is a place where I can easily create those little buttons (or banners or whatever they are called) that live at the corners of everyone's blogs. If you don't know what I'm talking about, click here for an example. What I'm imagining is a site where I can put in my text, select colors, then quickly create one of these. I'm sure I could do it in Photoshop, but the little tool I'm imagining seems so likely to exist that I thought I'd start by asking here. By the way, what DO you call those little things?
posted by abbyladybug to computers & internet (9 comments total)

http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/
posted by DandyRandy at 2:38 PM on March 25, 2005

Man, how I love Ask Metafilter! Thank you, Randy. You're awfully dandy!
posted by abbyladybug at 3:08 PM on March 25, 2005

Hm, and I've been making them by hand with the silkscreen font and photoshop. Thanks DandyRandy.
posted by odinsdream at 3:21 PM on March 25, 2005

see also: http://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php
posted by miniape at 3:25 PM on March 25, 2005

AFAIK, they're called gtmcknight buttons (after gtmcknight, who made the first one for RSS and such). You can get a whole variety of them — and upload yours, too! — at http://www.gtmcknight.com/buttons.
posted by Hot Like Your 12V Wire at 3:30 PM on March 25, 2005

Hot Like Your 12V Wire: gtmcknight maintains a site where he collects these types of buttons, I don't think he was instrumental in their creation. They began with this post at antipixel. Soon after that I created the button maker linked above. Where have you heard them called gtmknight buttons?)
posted by null terminated at 4:06 PM on March 25, 2005

Are there any other collections of buttons in dimensions other than these? I'd like to make a grid of square buttons, especially with graphics rather than words.
posted by NickDouglas at 4:29 PM on March 25, 2005

I'm so glad I asked this question. These are some excellent answers. And I'm really enjoying the little buttons I've added to my blog. :D
posted by abbyladybug at 6:21 PM on March 25, 2005

The original idea is def credited to Antipixel. All I did was collect them, and now I have become the biggest repository for them.
posted by gtmcknight at 7:25 PM on April 4, 2005