Without a doubt, one of the areas 99% of web sites fail is in
providing clean, sharp, intuitive site navigation. If your web site has more
than one page, it needs navigation. While some HTML editors enable you to add
a simple navigation bar to your site, most look like they were designed by
four year olds.
It used to be that you needed to hire a developer to create a
professional navigation bar. First they'd design the look and feel of the
buttons, then they would add rollover effects using Java or JavaScript, and by
the time they were done coding you might have a navigation bar that worked in
Microsoft Internet Explorer but not FireFox. Sigh.
Now there is a quick and easy button development tool for the
rest of us called Vista
Buttons. It enables you to design incredible looking sharp 3D buttons,
add cascading navigations, and even generate the HTML code and insert it into
your existing web page wherever you want it.
As you can see the selection of buttons in Vista
Buttons is quite nice. You have complete libraries to choose from
including Windows XP, Vista and Mac buttons. Just click on a button design you
like to start building your navigation bar. It can be either vertical or
horizontal and it can cascade multiple levels, too, using a variety of
graphical combinations and states as pictured below.
You can also add icons of varying sizes and shapes to make
your buttons more intuitive and graphically appealing, and all of this is as
simple as clicking your mouse. There's no special design or HTML programming
skills required.
The libraries of button themes, button templates and button
icons are really, really neat. You don't to use Vista
Buttons just for creating site navigation bars. You can also use it to
design shopping cart or buy now buttons for your web sites. Its uses are
endless.
Vista
Buttons is available for Windows and the buttons will work in all
popular browsers. You can download a demo of Vista
Buttons by visiting their web site here.
