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ButtonParty: Create Shareable Sound Buttons

MOin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:01:57 +0000

Numerous web services offer ways of sharing songs and audio online. But Button Party brings forward an entirely new concept to online sound sharing by letting you create shareable buttons that play audio from YouTube videos.

Button Party is a web service that lets you create shareable buttons. These buttons correspond to various sounds, all linked to YouTube videos and are all created by users. You can easily create a button by choosing its color, naming it, adding a YouTube URL, typing in a URL for the button, and providing the site with your email address. When your button is complete it will show up on the site’s homepage amongst other buttons.

The audio for the linked YouTube video is played anytime a button is clicked. For each button you can visit its webpage URL and check out how many times it has been clicked.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you create shareable sound-playing buttons.
Sounds are linked to YouTube videos.
Lets you control appearance of buttons.
Similar tools: AudienceSounds and Instanscollection,

Check out Button Party @ www.buttonparty.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

miiPlus: Get A Custom “Add” Button For Your Website

MOin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:01:51 +0000

Most websites have buttons that show an increasing count when visitors click on them. These buttons correspond to Likes and other opinions. To incorporate the button onto your webpage you first need to code it – a step that miiPlus makes very easy.

miiPlus is a free to use web service that helps you get an “increasing count” button for your website. The site lets you start customizing your button without registering for any account. Just head on over to the modification controls in the site’s left pane and select the style, mode, size, and an optional URL for your button. A preview of the button is generated on the right pane along with its dimensions. You can click on the button to see its count increase.

Right under the preview you can find the embeddable code for the button that can be easily used on your site to incorporate the button.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Provides code for “increasing count” button.
Lets you customize the appearance of the button.
Lets you link the button with a URL.
Provides a preview of the button.
Different mode of Count Button, not only “Like”, but also “Read”, “Hate”, “User”, “Love”
Supports the plugin for the common CMS platform, such as Joomla and WordPress for now.
Similar tools: FreshBadge, TwitterFollowBadge, Chatbadge and TwitStamp.
Also read related articles: How To Add Facebook Widgets & Buttons To Your Website.

Check out miiPlus @ www.miiplus.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Viewbix: Make Your Facebook & YouTube Videos Interactive

TehseenBaweja — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:01:44 +0000

With millions of videos watched daily, Facebook and YouTube offer a great way to get your message across. But for times when simply a video is not enough, Viewbix offers you a free tool to make your video more interactive by inserting clickable buttons inside. To start, simply provide a link to a YouTube or Facebook video or search for one. Then give your button a title and a link.

You can also add descriptions and photos that users will be able to view when they click on the button from inside the video. You can choose a custom size or skin color for the video and share it with the world through a unique URL. Viewbix also gives you an HTML code to embed your interactive video on any website or blog. All the videos you customize are saved in your Viewbix account and can be viewed and edited at any time.

Features:

Insert clickable buttons inside a video.
Works with any YouTube or Facebook video.
Share your video through a link or embed on websites.

Visit Viewbix @ http://www.viewbix.com

EmailMe: Create An Email Me Button To Save Yourself From Spam

TehseenBaweja — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:01:32 +0000

Everybody knows how it works, you publish your email address on a website or blog, the spam bots read it through their automated scripts and then fill your inbox with Viagra deals. EmailMe is a nice tool that lets you hide your email address behind a button so only humans can get to it.

Simply enter your email address and submit to generate the button. The tool will then provide you with a small JavaScript code that you can paste anywhere on your website or blog to embed this email button. Bots will now not be able to see what’s behind it but real people can still click on it. A contact form pops up that will let users email you without revealing your address. The button can also be added as a sidebar widget on WordPress or a gadget on Blogger.

Features:

Create a contact us form to receive emails.
Hide your email address behind an EmailMe button.
No registration required.
Similar tools: EmailScramber, MailToEncoder, TheHTMLEncoder, The Enkoder Form, SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

Visit EmailMeButton @ www.emailmebutton.com

CSS3Button: CSS3 Button Generator

Umar — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:01:10 +0000

If you are a web developer working with CSS3, you will find yourself writing long lines of code to get your desired buttons for your website. How great would it be if you could get the code without the extensive manual coding? That is exactly what CSS3 Button Generator offers.

CSS3 Button Generator is a wonderful web tool for site developers. The tool is absolutely free to use and has one function: it helps you create buttons. Background, border, drop shadow, inner shadow, text font, and text shadow tools are provided. As you make changes in these tools the button is updated and displayed. When you are done with your edits, you can copy the HTML or CSS3 code provided on the right.

In addition to creating your own buttons via adjusting the controls, you can also browse the site’s own collection of buttons using its “random” feature.

Clicking on any button will open it up in the editing interface where you can further modify it or simply copy the HTML/CSS codes provided on the right.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Helps you create buttons for websites.
Offers a variety of tools to get your desired buttons.
Provides HTML and CSS code for your created buttons.
Lets you browse a library of buttons, edit them, and get their codes.
Similar tools: ButtonMaker, DaButtonFactory, Buttonator, TheButtonEffect and HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator.
Also read related article: Selected 25 CSS Applications and Tools.

Check out “CSS3 Button Generator” @ www.css3button.net (By Umar from TechCityInc)

TurnSocial: Connect with your site visitors through a social networking toolbar

MOin — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:01:07 +0000

Looking for a new way to connect with your site’s visitors? If yes then a website toolbar with social networking buttons is exactly what you need. Thanks to TurnSocial, you will not need to go through extensive coding to create your own network-loaded website toolbar.

TurnSocial is a very simple and easy web service that is free to use. It helps you create a toolbar with networking buttons that can be placed on your site.

You start by setting the name of your bar. Next you add your site’s usernames on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace. Simply leave out a service if your site does not have an account on it.

In addition to networking buttons you can also add your office address and get buttons for location-related services.

With all this done you can then click on the “Create” button. This generates your toolbar and provides you with a code. Simply paste this code directly before the tag in the source code of the webpages you want the toolbar on.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Lets you add a toolbar to your site.
You can add networking buttons and location-related buttons to the toolbar.
To add toolbar, you only have to paste a few line of code into your site’s source code.

Check out TurnSocial @ www.turnsocial.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

ShareSidebar: Quickly Add Social Media Sharing Buttons To Your Site

Umar — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:01:15 +0000

Visitors to a site appreciate the site’s social media sharing buttons as these buttons let them share anything interesting on their social networking accounts. If you run a site or blog and would like to add such a sharing feature in a visually appealing way, check out ShareSidebar.

ShareSidebar is a web service that provides you with a sidebar for your website. This sidebar contains buttons to various social networks. You decide which social networks show up as the option is provided. The available networks include Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Digg, Google Buzz, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Yahoo Buzz.

After selecting your networks you enter your email and site name. Click on the “Get the Code” button to obtain the embeddable code that will show the sidebar.

Paste this code onto every page of your site, before the closing tag. The Sidebar will appear on the left or right, as selected by you in the options.

The sidebar will appear on every page, on the same side, and with its buttons in fixed positions.

Features:

Easily add add social media buttons to website.
Lets you add sharing options to your site through a sidebar.
You can select which social network buttons appear.
Provides you with an embeddable code for the sidebar.
A great tool for owners of websites and blogs.
Similar tools: ButtonMaker, DaButtonFactory, Buttonator, TheButtonEffect and HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator.

Check out “ShareSidebar” @ www.sharesidebar.com

TweetMakr: Get a Retweet Button For Your Blog

abhijeet — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:01:09 +0000

If you are a blogger, you will understand what a lots of retweets could do for your articles. Twitter isn’t just a medium to talk and communicate, it has also become a prominent social media sharing platform. A nice article is retweeted by Twitter users, which in turn drives visitors to that site. Therefore it is imperative that site owners make retweeting their posts easier. And that’s exactly what TweetMakr helps to do.

TweetMakr is the simplest and easiest way to put a retweet button on your blog. Just copy and paste the given code (you will have to customize it a bit though according to the URL) on your site and you are done. No sign up is required, there are no plugins to install, nothing. It’s quick and easy.

Features

Easy retweet button for website owners.
No sign up required.
Embed the given code on your site.
No javascript needed.

Check out TweetMakr @ www.tweetmakr.com (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

ButtonMaker: CSS Button Code Generator

MOin — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:01:37 +0000

If you are a website developer or graphic designer, you use CSS code every now and then. Buttons are a webpage element type which are often coded in CSS and then embedded in websites. Thinking of and typing up the entire CSS code for a button can be quite a tedious task for designers. But thanks to Button Maker, the job is greatly simplified.
Button Maker is a free to use css button code generator that provides button creation service and the button’s CSS code. When you log onto the site you can view a button on the left with some adjustable settings on the right pane.

The settings include three sliders which can be used to modify the shape of the button. Other settings are related to the colors of the button; you can set top gradient color, bottom gradient color, top border color, hover background color, hover text color, and active background color. The last setting is the font style; the available font options are Helvetica, Georgia, and Lucida Grande. To get the CSS code you click on the button; as a result a box with the CSS code appears.

Features:

Button preview available.
You can change button font.
Simplifies the task of obtaining CSS code for buttons.
Gives you many options to modify the button.
Similar tools: DaButtonFactory, Buttonator, TheButtonEffect and HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator.
Also read related article: Selected 25 CSS Applications and Tools.

Visit Button Maker @ CSS Tricks Button Maker

Plupper: Provides Live Chat Feedback Widget For Your Website

TehseenBaweja — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:01:49 +0000

Answering customer queries via email is getting outdated due to the high turnaround time and inefficient communication. The best way to engage as well as retain a customer is to offer instant answers to all their queries. Plupper lets you do that by embedding a live chat feedback widget on your website.

When a user initiates a conversation, you can reply from any of your favorite chat clients like Google Talk, Pidgin, Trillian, Meebo or any XMPP/Jabber based client. The communication is secure and messages are sent over a 256 bit SSL encrypted connection. All you have to do is copy/paste HTML code to your website to activate the Plupper widget.

Features:

Embed a live chat widget on your website.
Talk using Google Talk, Meebo or any Jabber based client.
Lets your user know if you are offline.
Save and browse chat history.
Users can also send you an email through the widget.
Secure and encrypted connection.
Free for personal and commercial use.
Similar sites: Foozya, SnapABug, VisitorContact, Contactify and Whspr.

Visit Plupper @ www.plupper.com