Blue Glass Buttons

[TempusFugit]

You can download them from the following URL:

http://www.cinemascope.gr/test/glass/blueglass.zip

It's better to use them with a dark background. If you have a photo editing program, I recommend to add a vertical black shadow with 50% transparecy (I haven't added the shadow in order to avoid the blending with the background).

Some sample buttons:


You can also see them in use at http://www.cinemascope.gr/yabbse/

Instructions

The toolbar's buttons are visually unified into one button. To make this, upload toolbar_back.gif, toolbar_corner1.gif and toolbar_corner2.gif into your YaBBImages directory. Then you'll have to edit your template:

Search for

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<yabb menu>
and replace it with

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<table border="0" height="23" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="20" valign="top">
    <img border="0" src="YaBBImages/toolbar_corner1.gif" width="20" height="23">
    </td>
    <td height="23" background="YaBBImages/toolbar_back.gif">
    <yabb menu>
    </td>
    <td width="20" valign="top">
    <img border="0" src="YaBBImages/toolbar_corner2.gif" width="20" height="23">
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

This will make the toolbar look like this:




I hope you'll like them  

[Spaceman-Spiff]

they look really cool

[haase]

Wow... those are really awesome.

[alienine]

1. You can post news items that are blank just by adding a space in the fields, you need to use the trim function.
2. When using a large amount of text to be posted the thing said those fields were left empty, when in fact they were not.
3. When you go check news no news shows up.
4. Yeah you can post HTML (even in the subject field), though that's in no way a hack. Read the PHP manual man, there's functions made that are specifically made to fix problems like these.
5. This is potentially a hack, in the modify profile thing you have the follwing hidden field:

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<input type="hidden" name="username" value="test">You see there's no field for the old password, so if this is what the form relies on to check if the user is in fact the actual user at hand then its a big hole. You could just change the name in that hidden input to someone elses and there you go, you have their account.

This is of course only if that's what the form relies on, because obviously it would be best to have them enter the original password AND chack with the cookie... even if you have that you shouldn't need that hidden field there at all.

And don't alow them to change their usernames... only their display names..
6. You can't log out.. which is insecure.

Another one coming soon if i can get it to work

[Peter Duggan]

For the curious, it looks like alienine's post was intended for another topic!

PS *Very* nice blue glass buttons!

[Allan_R]

neet! any chance of getting a YaPP virsion?

[alienine]

For the curious, it looks like alienine's post was intended for another topic!

PS *Very* nice blue glass buttons!

how the hell did that happen...?!

[TempusFugit]

Thanks guys  

neet! any chance of getting a YaPP virsion?

As far as I know most of them are the same, aren't they? Can you please send me a zip file with the buttons of YaPP? I'll make them next week  

[haase]

Tempus...  what app did you create those in?

Any chance I can get the source file.  I was working on some green glass, but I couldn't get them to look quite right.

sample here

I sort of gave up the project, but if I can see how you did it, maybe it would help.

[TempusFugit]

The basic button is made in CorelDraw. The shadows and the editing of buttons' images in CorelPhoto-Paint. I think that we both used the same method, but the rounded rectangle seems more aproppriate for this kind of glass effect...

Anyway, do you want to send them by e-mail?

[haase]

errr...  That's actually one set of graphics applications that I don't have.    

I did mine in Photoshop.  I agree that the rectangle makes more sense for this kind of effect.  I may try that.

Other than that, I think we did go with the same approach, but you were more successful.  The major difference is that it looks like you put not so much emphasis on the hightlights, and added the shadow around the whole thing.  Yours has a nice subtle affect where-as mine shows entirely too much contrast.

[TempusFugit]

Some thoughts... Perhaps the main problem is that the two shapes (the gloss and the highlight) don't match the circle's outline. Furthermore, try to add a prespective to the gloss shape making the bottom of the shape nearer to you. I'll make some tests next week...

[Allan_R]

I'll try to get that YaPP buttons to ya TempusFugit

ASAP  

[Overlord]

Could you make a members button?

[andrea]

Nice buttons. Question: when making them, does one convert the grey default buttons, or has one to start from scratch?