80×15 Brilliant Button Maker
I have implemented a web application to create customizable “80×15 brilliant buttons”.
The “80×15 brilliant buttons”, also known as “Antipixel buttons”, are the very popular buttons especially used by bloggers, see this examples:
The web interface creates “80×15 brilliant buttons” using Bill Zeller’s php script.
In addition to the original script you can decorate your button with two images (one on the left and the other on the right side) so you are able to create more sophisticated buttons.
Click here to try the web application and create your own buttons.
UPDATE September 16, 2005:
I add some Ajax to the Brilliant Button Maker. You can also directly host the buttons created to ImageShack.us.
Credits: script.aculo.us (Thomas Fuchs) and Sack of Ajax (Gregory Wild-Smith) are two very cool JavaScript I use in Brilliant Button Maker Interface.
Source Code: you can download Bill Zeller’s php script here, and the PHP class I use to create the button here.
Stunning web app, thanks a lot
Hey.
This is cool but you could make also a transparent png support into this.
Torin, I have some problems with transparent png & php … when I’ll have some free time I’ll work out!
Good deal here. I’ve been looking for a way to do these with images short of resorting to PS. Kudos!
Brilliant idea! Very handy - it greatly reduces the time needed to make an 80×15 button!
Cheers,
Dave
I like this site.
I use it every time.
TeKiLa, french guy.
Great too really cool.
Except: there is a small bug:
The output png file should be around 200 to 300 bytes. But I saw they are around 16K.
So I tried to see what is wrong. Opened an image with a “text” editor.
Oh-la-la: you dump the whole html at the end of the png ????
Your png output does not truncate properly and it prints out the html page at the end of the png file…
I hope you fix it.
Great tool again.
Congrats.
argiope.
16K?
Thanks argiope 
I fixed it!
works great. thanks!
Great!
Nice job, only request is to be able to generate images that aren’t as long, since a button like “RSS Valid” will have a lot of empty space at the end. I know that defeats the purpose of calling it an 80×15 button maker, but it’d be nice to get rid of that extra space.
Thanks Austin, I’ll check …
may I use Chinese to create button?
> may I use Chinese to create button?
Hi serabande, good question … I’ll study if it’s possible to add a Chinese font.
Please if you would like to have some new features, write a comment here. When I have some free time I want to review the code and add some feature.
The current TODO list is:
- send the button created by email
- manage transparent gif
- manage animated gif
- add Chinese font
Well done man, very well done.
This is very awesome and extremely needed. It saves me a lot of time trying to do this myself. Thank you.
Will you be releasing the php source?
what a clever idea!
well done.
How do i make a smaller button?
> Will you be releasing the php source?
I need to review the code and then the php will be released for free.
> How do i make a smaller button?
with this web application you can only make buttons 80×15 (80 pixel width and 15 pixel height)!
sorry
Great website!
Thanks a lot!
I love this tool, is there any way to get one on my TextPattern (i.e. a WordPress altenative) site?
Grest tool!!
i dont know if this is possible but if you could have the image (.png) dynamically named instead of just button.png. i was thinking like leftbox+rightbox.png, just if you are making a lot, its easier to save them all
thanks again for the great tool
Hi DnCollins (#24), good suggest … now button is dynamically named ‘leftText-rightText.png’.
Thanks
Luca
i came upon this site via google.. i was looking for a botton maker and found yours! i am so glad because it was wonderful and tremendously helpful! thank you for having such a great application on the net for so many to use…
thank you,
Maizzy >^.^
Nice button creator…
Absolutely cool. Thanks.
Awesome!
WOW Really great tool
Your buttonmaker totally rocks. Wow.
Great tool!
Anyway i noticed now it’s 80-pixels-wide all the time, this means trying creating a “a_string|another_string” button the strings overflow each others, maybe a forgotten comment or so
Awesome utility, any source? ;-P
Oh well, it seems the friend who told me this was wrong, because this brilliant maker doesn’t create wider buttons. A friend of mine told me about “80×15-style button”, only much wider.
Awesome interface anyway the your
Hai Luke
Your tool is very nice. Is it possible to have the source code, even against a donation of course?
Thanks
Just a quick note to say how cool this is!
I’ve added a link to you under my ‘link to me’ page. cheers!
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Your buttons rock! Thank you very much! Ciao ciao
Very cute engine, really. I was wondering how you managed to have a dialog box appear when you click on the end image instead of opening the image directly in the browser window (as usually happens).
Very *very* nice. Makes it a lot easier to create professional looking buttons. Thanks!
Could you make it so it only uses lower case when dynamically naming the buttons? Or have a checkbox that lets you choose? Easier for using them on websites that way. Thanks.
I add some Ajax to the Brilliant Button Maker. You can also directly host the buttons created to ImageShack.us.
The PHP source code of the BrilliantButton class is downloadable from the main page.
Great little tool and thanks for making the source available!
Great site, thank you. Could we also configure the button site please?
Why did you disable right click on the button you’ve created? The “Save It” button is nice, but then you can’t choose where to save it to (at least with FireFox).
@ Justus: I disabled right click to avoid that users save and use the local location of the image (on my server). It’s not good because sometimes I delete all the images created.
To choose a location where to save it with Firefox you can right click on “Save it” and choose “Save Link As”.
Thanks!
Luca
yeah! very cool tool. thats great work. thx a lot.
Another bug
When you like to make an image with + (plus) sign. You get nothing.
I guess it’s an URL encoding issue…
Great tool once again.
Ron.
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How can I implement the briliant buton scrip?
When I exec it from apache(under win) it just gives a blank page.
What us the deal dose it nee to be included in an other page or what?
@argiope(#47): Hi Ron, bug fixed. Plus sign works fine now … yes it was an URL encoding issue when I add some Ajax!
Thanks
Luca
Really nice tool…
Is it possible to use russian signs? (I didn’t try with Chinese…)
Very, Very Thanks!
Great, thanks!
I see there is the option to download the source code. But, I need all the files to make it work. That means all the fonts images, Everything! Mind uploading it for me so I can make it work?
first of all, i damn like your 80×15 button web app
second, you have a typo in the next sentence ;]
“You can use ImageShack.us to host your buttons (now you can upoload directly a button).”
well, that was about it really (’the film ends mainly visual…’)
Love it, fantastic utility best of it’s kind to make those hard to reach tiny buttons.
Thanks Luca.
A great site, the sort that makes the internet worth browsing. I ‘Stumbled’ across it and was very glad I did.
Valeu!
G
i ‘Stubled’ too
Appart from the PHP page/class, where can I get the html template for the interface?
Hi Richard, interface is not available to download. You must build your own interface.
*cough* willing to sell one?
Criminal! Its awesome, I came across it and Im happy for that..
fai un gemellaggio con questo: http://www.netdenizen.com/buttonmill/glassy.php
Hey Luca, very cool app. Just to let you know I’ve given you a plug in my blog (weblensblogs.blogspot.com), as of this day.
Glad to find your site, great resource!
Wow, thanks, just a small request can you add something to add like (Small skulls, birds, pens something like that)(yeahh u can upload your own images but that could be a lot helpful)(Sorry my english is a lot rusty)
Every time again: The name “Brilliant” Button Maker is well chosen and fits perfectly.
Great Work, Luke!
Thanks, this is a real time saver and perfect in every sense of the word. Brilliant Button Maker is essential for any webmasters toolbox. We used to great effect in the GeoID Google mapping MashUp.
Thanks a lot for this web app, still using it. Also whole web is very nice, congratulation Luca!
Could you please post your php script that transloads an image onto imageshack? It’s so cool!
the life is beautyfull
This is fantastic!
Very good work.
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hey Luca, awesomee button maker you have here! I saw your to-do list and I figured I would let ya know that to make animated pictures work you need imagemagick because regular gd can not handle animated pictures being resized. Its pretty easy to install and get working and I’m sure if you gave it a shot you could do everything in image magick instead of gd.
good luck man! and keep up the good work
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great tool!!!
thanks a lot…
Fantastic!
Many thanks.
Hi Folks,
Sorry, i dont know I handle the 2 Files.
the *.class File -> include the *.php File or what.
Can you give me a little help please or a complete Script?
Greetings from Germany
Thanks for your Help…
I wish I’d found this before doing it manually - d’oh!
Chicklets
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Very cool
Keep up good work.
Hey, Very nifty application you have here. So useful. I like the integration with imageshack as well. Thanks a lot, these buttons are now being extensively used on my blog!
thanks.
Is this an open source app? If so, can I implement this on my website? Awesome script!
could you make the source into a zip file for easier transportation? i use this extensively for my site (thats not completely up yet) and sometimes my internet fails. i do have a webserver so i can use it without internet access.
please?
Hi,
Nice resource! I think both our site have the same audience, would you like to trade links? I offer free logo designs.
Regards,
Franco
IT’S really cool!!..i am planning to use it on my website HUMOR-HOUR.COM
Luca - this is simply wonderful. I have donated $1 for every button I made. Thank you so much.
@MapleMama: Thanks!!! $1 for every button …. it’s great, must become the standard and I could be rich very soon!