Web Page Buttons

             Personal Computer (PC) a desktop or a laptop and a cell phone are inevitable part of modern day lifestyle either at a super urban or even at a remote village. There is an information super highway provided through satellites, Internet Service Provider (ISP). In order to survive and go ahead in the line one has to find the needed information in time and in some cases very fast. Web page is a software application implemented in a server (Computer). ISP web page also is a software application that provides links to some other selected web pages. User of the ISP can also provide desired web page address in the address space or search page to get connected to the desired web page. Web page design is thus a very import part of the modern day information management. Button is a way for the web page designer to provide other web page links so that user can just click the button in order to get some pre-selected information real-time or offline. Real time information like the current stock market information, current scores of games and offline information like the biography of a person are obtained through connection to a web page by clicking a button. And Google, Yahoo and other search engines provide buttons to the advertisers so that they are exposed to the customers worldwide. Button is an integral part of web design. Commercial software is available for easy implementation of Web page Buttons without actually coding the scripts for form of web page buttons.       

            If one can look and see may be a hundred buttons of many kinds like home page button, printer button, hot job button, sports button and so on in one's home page. Some available (even free) software can be downloaded to add buttons to a web page. Here is a list of some commercial button maker:

            . Buttons for web weaver

            . ButtonWorld.org

            . Button Generator

            . Free Button

            . Freebutton.com

            . ProDraw's Free button

            . Sage's buttons and Gifs

            . Brobst Systems

            ………

            Here is an example of actual script used for generating button:

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Perl/environment-example  ; URL of interest 
      method="GET">
  ; the button

Here the button is “leeds.ac.uk “. When the button is clicked one can see the web page

URL www.comp.leeds.ac.uk. Special texts. Graphics, shapes can be added to the button to make it more visually impressive. Web page Buttons are part of web page and modern day lifestyle.