AlphaButton

By Dale Farris, Secretary Golden Triangle PC Club August 2005 AlphaButton creates professional web button, tab, logo and banner graphics -- without any drawing. If you can type, you can use AlphaButton. New FrontPage Add-in! The latest release makes it easier than ever before to add AlphaButton graphics to your web pages, especially for FrontPage users. Here's How It Works Choose a template from a collection of hundreds, all categorized by shape and color. Type the text of all your graphics, for example "Home," "Products," "About Us," etc. AlphaButton automatically sizes all the graphics and positions all the text, even with multiple lines. Optionally customize your graphics by changing the font, color, 3D, and lighting effects. You can add an icon and create multi-state "rollover" graphics with a single click. More Features Export your graphics to files for use in web page editors, such as Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. AlphaButton can even create HTML and JavaScript code customized for your graphics. Great for Pros and Beginners Whether you're making thousands of web button graphics for a high-profile corporate site, or a welcoming banner for your first web page, AlphaButton will make it easy to finish your project with extraordinary results. Try it Free Download a non-expiring, fully-functional copy of AlphaButton 2. If you like it, you can purchase online to immediately remove the evaluation watermarks by simply exporting the graphics again. Who makes AlphaButton? AlphaButton is designed, developed, and supported by Context Graphics in California. Quick Start Guide AlphaButton comes with over 300 pre-designed templates, sorted by color and shape in the template library. Look around for something you like. If you don't find exactly what you're looking for, don't worry. You can easily customize the design later. Type the text you want and AlphaButton will automatically generate an image. To create more images, type more text! The text for each image should go in its own row. All the images will look like the template you picked, but with the text you typed. AlphaButton even handles complex tasks, like picking the right image size, automatically. You can make changes to the selected design by using the controls at the bottom of the screen. You may want to change the shape or size, set the background color to match your webpage, add icons, or alter shadows and other 3-D effects. All this and more is easy to do. When you make a change, all images are updated immediately. This makes it easy to adjust the controls to get the exact effect you're looking for. When you're happy with your images, use AlphaButton's web preview functionality to see them in a web page. This helps you envision what they might look like on your own web page, and will help you identify any adjustments that should be made. AlphaButton can also generate the code to add these images to your own web page. The last step is to export the images from AlphaButton. This generates the real image files (.png, .gif, or .jpg) that you can use on your web page or in other programs. These images are in standard formats, so you can use them just like images made with any other graphics program or found on the web. Most likely, you'll want to copy and paste some code from AlphaButton to get the images on your web page, or use your favorite web page editor to do so. Target Customers AlphaButton is a super utility that will provide great value to all Webmasters and anyone who creates and maintains Web sites. The program will streamline the process of creating hyperlinked, clickable buttons on your pages, and since these "hot" buttons are so important in just about all Web pages, this program should definitely be seriously considered an essential Web page utility. System Requirements AlphaButton for Windows Pentium 350MHz Windows 98, 2000, XP, or 2003 64MB RAM 40MB free hard disk space 800 x 600 screen resolution 16-bit (65,536 colors) or higher AlphaButton has been tested with the preceding minimum configurations. It may or may not run on systems that do not meet these requirements. Use the free trial version before purchasing to ensure that AlphaButton is compatible with your system. AlphaButton for Mac OS X 400MHz PowerPC G3 OS X version 10.2 or higher (works best with 10.3) Java 1.4.1 or higher (works best with 1.4.2) 64MB RAM 10MB free hard disk space 800 x 600 screen resolution 16-bit (65,536 colors) or higher AlphaButton has been tested with the preceding minimum configurations. It may or may not run on systems that do not meet these requirements. Use the free trial version before purchasing to ensure that AlphaButton is compatible with your system. AlphaButton for Linux (and other flavors of Unix) Since AlphaButton is written entirely in Java, it should (in theory) run on any machine that has the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.1 or higher installed. It has been tested with satisfactory results on a variety of Unix-based platforms, such as Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and Solaris. If you would like to try a Linux or Unix version, please let the company know and we will be happy to arrange it. Price $49.95 $19.95 upgrade Contact Context Graphics P.O. Box 2159 Dublin, California 94568 888-471-2671 www.alphabutton.com