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ByWil

You know those little buttons that are all over people’s websites? The ones that look just like the TON of buttons you see below?
I guess they’re called “stickers,” and today I found a totally badass UI to make them. I’ve always thought these little things were spiffy, kind of a different way to say “I like this stuff,” and be a little creative while you’re at it. I just wasted spent an hour or so making stickers, to give my brain a rest after writing all day.
Here are some stuff about me, or stuff I like ones:
I drive a VW Golf dancing barefoot wwdn monkey los angeles dodgers old school kings guinness
movable type version 2.661 pixies radiohead

And some that could be nifty for links:
homestar runner salon fark totalfark blogging.la bOINGbOING
the onion Best Week Ever
How about some love for XM?
lucy - XM 54 Ethel - XM 47 Fred - XM 44
And of course, we’ve got to have some Star Trek stickers:
tng deep space nine voyager
Okay, so consider yourself inspired! Get outta here and make some that are cooler than these . . . you know you want to.

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  2. I made most of my “stickers” there too. Taylor McKnight also has a huge stash of stickers on his site (http://gtmcknight.com/buttons/index.php). I believe the vast majority of those were submitted by other bloggers. He’s recently reorganized them into categories and I believe soon you will be able to search for the type of sticker you need.

  3. I have never seen these before….but I am a big fan of filling out forms and making useless things on the internet.

  6. Hmm, user has reached bandwidth limit. Looks like Wil’s link wanged that site. I guess I’ll try again later. Or just fire up photoshopCS and do it myself.

  8. Thanks! I spent an hour the other day trying different names to find those damn silly things. and now that I know where to make them, surely some ferret or meezer ones are needed. 😉

  9. I thought I told you to “stop goofing off and finish writing “Just A Geek”, not “Now hang up and go make nitfy little banners!” Kathryn’s gonna KILL me! Thanks for the interview Wil, you’re the best!
    Kal

  10. Good grief! The next Internet “you ain’t cool if you ain’t got any” fad…
    I guess running across one of those “All about me and my friends and our soap opera school life” websites with a thousand of those plastered all over it is better than running into the same aforementioned website with a 3 meg MP3 embedded in it…
    (No offense to anyone who might happen to have one of those “all about me and my friends and our soap opera school life” website is intended of course ;} )

  12. Naw, it’s all about XM 27. Cinemagic, baby, Cinemagic.
    (though I’ll admit I’m listening to 81 (BPM) right now because it’s my study music)

  17. Addicting, aren’t they?? I have a whole stash of them on my site. And once I started making my own… oh Lord… it was all over after that. LOL

  18. I think Kalsey still links directly to Minimal Verbosity’s code that makes the buttons, so it may go offline because of bandwidth suckage (it’s happened twice before) – especially after Wil “You got me out of the shower for a snake? Dude.” Wheaton links to it 😉
    I happen to have an improved version of the code at my site that automagically calculates the vertical divider’s placement. The interface is very simplistic, but obvious.
    Anybody that is able to host their own stuff can email me and I’ll send you the form page and the code to make the buttons (you need to have PHP installed)

  20. hey wil,
    that is soo much fun! cheers for the link. its always good to have another time waster around!!! tee hee
    cheers wil,
    take care
    rach

  22. Be Creative, Roll Your Own!
    PHP code to follow:
    # Create the image
    $im = imagecreate(80, 15);
    # Create the colors
    $black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
    $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
    $blue = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);
    # Paint the image white
    ImageFilledRectangle($im,0,0,80,15,$white);
    # Paint the border
    imagesetthickness ( $im, 1);
    ImageRectangle($im, 1, 1, 79, 14, $black);
    # Paint the Blue Rect
    ImageFilledRectangle($im,3,3,14,12,$blue);
    # Paint the “ST”
    imagestring($im, 1, 4, 4, “ST”, $white);
    # Paint the Black Rect
    ImageFilledRectangle($im,16,3,77,12,$black);
    # Paint the “ST”
    imagestring($im, 1, 18, 4, “MyGeneration”, $white);
    # Write it to a file
    imagepng($im, “ST_Sticker.png”);
    # Recover the memory
    imagedestroy($im);

  23. Wil, just wanted to say that I read your blog everyday & that I really enjoy your take on things….
    One request… I read you blog through Bloglines & was wondering if you have considered putting your entire comment in the RSS feed? As it is, I have to click through to your site to read the entire article…
    Thanks again for writing.. I really enjoy it!
    Steve

  28. My VW is a Golf TDI, and I freakin’ LOVE it. My milage averages something like 48 / 53, and the cost of diesel fuel is consistenly well below the cost of unleaded fuel.
    I could do a big old blog post all about how much I ::heart:: my car . . . but I think I won’t. 🙂

  29. Interesting – a recent “Car & Driver” indicated there might be issues with diesels and California’s emissions standards. Any hassles there?

  32. Let’s see… I’ve already borrowed your basic blog design to inspire my own (http://ranchorelaxo99.tripod.com); taken the “Fear” terror alert system featuring Sesame Street; heck, I even use the Obey Wil button. Now I’ve got something else to borrow from my dear Uncle Willy…
    Seriously, though. The stickers are nifty, and I’ll try my hand at making them tonight after I get home from work (where I’ll be seeing The Butterfly Effect for the 8th time, yay). Thankfully, I have the remedy for Ashton Kutcher movies to come home to: WWdN!

  35. Ha! I’m happy to see one of the “clip shows” from our fabulous network was worthy of a button. It’s my personal favorite, as the people coming in to interview for it are always personable and funny.
    Fondly,
    The Receptionist Who Complemented Your Web Site in the Parking Garage

  36. Ha! I love the button maker. I’ve used it to make…oh…masses of minibuttons for navigating my website. I’ve tried to make them myself but Photoshop 5 stubbornly refuses to play ball with the Silkscreen font that’s used to make the things. Grr, arg.

  38. I :heart: my VW Golf too! Um, but it’s a 92…and it has over 260k kms on it…but it is still going strong.

  40. Thanks for the link. The bandwidth shouldn’t be a problem. My site’s always had plenty, and Bill (the guy who created the backedn of the gizmo) recently moved it to a new host with loads of bandwidth to spare.
    Those that suggested Wil’s link might bring my server to it’s knees, but oddly enough the link hasn’t brought nearly as much traffic as you might think. About 2500 visitors in the 20 or so hours since this was posted.
    What’s particularly interesting is that this link has created a bunch of secondary traffic. Many people who saw it here have linked to it themselves. That has brought in another 1000 or so visitors.
    Last summer when I analyzed the initial flood of traffic that came from the sudden discovery of the button maker. Anyone interested in this sort of thing might like to read about it in Anatomy of a Meme.

  41. You totally maxed out the dude’s bandwidth…
    I guess I have to wait until the 1st to have a go…
    Thanks for the link…;)

  43. so i’m reading the comments and i see my name, hey wait a minute i didn’t post any comments! i am not used to seeing my name out there, there’s not many of us around, nice to see another elise! ok that’s all. 🙂

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