Buttons!

CuLT

You want a button, or have one to share?
Take one or leave one, that's why they're there!

Request/Display buttons here; seeing as there is an abundance of fora on boards that use buttons to signify membership, there may as well be a central place to get/give them.

Also, if you happen to have a (useful/informative) site that you'd like to display a button for post it here.

Example1: a button for audioscrobbler is fine, a button to freeipods.com is not.
Example2: a button for firefox is fine, a button for gator(adware) is not.

I'll decide what's ok and what's not on a post by post basis to prevent it turning into an advertisement thread. Use the "Report this Post" feature if you think I've missed something.

Format:
Sitename - http://url.that.the.image.points.to
[url=url.that.the.image.points.to][img]url.of.the.image[/img][/url]


Here's a couple of mine:

Audioscrobbler - http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/CuLT


Eirtaku - http://www.eirtaku.com


There's a couple more examples built into my sig, so yes, fill the forums with images!

RuggieBear

hope this isn't a stupid question but how do you build the buttons into your sig....?

I'd love to do the same to mine.

Giblet

The images are broken down into different stripes, each one having a seperate url.

CuLT

As Giblet said, it's made up of four stripes:

I just make sure it's within the dimension & kb limits so nobody needs have a fit about it

Citizen_Erased

sweet, must do that

RuggieBear

ah...that's clever. Complete lack of lateral thinking on my part

Giblet

O.K I made a version of cults sig with the buttons actually isolated, but the maximum number of images in a sig is 15 (I needed 17 to fully recreate cults sig)











here is the code: attached.

CuLT

Wowzers, that is a lot of images...

Shame about the image limitation, but 15 is excessive enough as it is
n1.

Giblet

Actually I wonder could the number of images per post be increased for this forum

modular

CuLT's sig is possible with 11 images, if you slice it properly in ImageReady.

RuggieBear

Giblet wrote:

O.K I made a version of cults sig with the buttons actually isolated, but the maximum number of images in a sig is 15 (I needed 17 to fully recreate cults sig)











here is the code: attached.

that's pretty cool.

i'll have to try that next...have buttoned my sig now kinda. I'm very clumsy in photoshop...

Citizen_Erased

Bingo there we go .... new sig.... button picked up some noise on the way though.....hmmm.... might be to large....could get blocked...

The button can be put up for download if u want it - the downloadable one wont be distorted/noisey though....

angelofdeath

cool thread, never noticed that about cults sig before, i must have a crack at doing something similar

sionnach

modular wrote:

CuLT's sig is possible with 11 images, if you slice it properly in ImageReady.

not using just a sequence of img tags though i don't think

Giblet

Imagemaps would be cool

dangerman

wow. I haven't been on boards in ages. Good to see photoshoppage is still going well.

Any excuse to draw attention to my sig button, which at the time was the most awesome thing i ever coded. (I know, I sucked, learnt so much since then.)

It parses the RSS feed from my site and then uses php to auto generate the PNG file with the latest posts populated.

Actually incredibly similar to those really annoying 'you are running windows xp...' things, but i hope people don't take as much offense to the tcal button.

Cults buttons are cool.

Edit: I only scanned the original post, and misread the purpose of this thread. I guess you could say it's ok to have a button for tcal..but delete this post if its not in keeping with the gist of the thread. brain not working.

CuLT

Yeah, I think the thread has far, far derailed from what I intended, but who cares, this is more interesting.

I'd love it if you let us know how you did that dangerman, I like it a lot

dangerman

bad instructions on how it was done here:

http://tcal.net/archives/2004/10/24/tcal-rss-super-button-tutorial/


that code could be tidied and made better i've no doubt, it was one of the first things i did when starting to get back into coding. + you can see it's just two guys seperate code hacked together.