The above painting, The Treachery of Images, is by Rene Magritte. The French caption translates to “This is not a pipe”. The caption seems to contradict the subject, but not really. That’s not a pipe…it’s a picture of a pipe. You can’t stuff it with tobacco and you can’t smoke it.
OK, ready for a seamless transition from Belgian surrealist art to contemporary web design, specifically the use of buttons on websites? Here we go – consider this image:
At first glance, the button label is contradictory. But upon further inspection it’s totally accurate. When you move your mouse over the image, the cursor doesn’t change into a pointing finger. And if you click on the image, nothing happens. No matter how much that image may look like a button, it just isn’t one.
Now let’s look at an actual button. As you can see, the orange image of a button shown below is also accurately labeled. When you move your mouse over the image, the cursor turns into a pointing finger. When you click this button, something happens.
In fact, let’s all click it now so we can read the rest of this post.
March 28, 2008 at 12:27 pm |
This makes it sound easy so I will try it.
Great work with the Blogs
March 28, 2008 at 12:44 pm |
This is awesome stuff! When is Homestead coming out with NEW features? Keep up the good work!
March 31, 2008 at 9:28 am |
cursor over green button does turn into pointing finger
March 31, 2008 at 9:30 am |
cursor over green button no longer changes
April 4, 2008 at 7:10 am |
I accept this philosophical argument because simply of the fact that says, ”something” is still to be ”something” unless you name it by specific name. It seems like the “Theory of Nonsense”. However, the “Theory of Nonsense” (I am the real master of this theory) becomes a “Theory of Sense” upon implementation. Just philosophy! Is there any Kant here?
April 28, 2008 at 6:06 pm |
The new photogallery feature is nice but 1) I would like to control the size of the font on my caption or to align it left, right or center. 2) Yeah, the old photo album feature really sucked but it needed improved, not replaced. I’m not sure I want all my thumbnails showing at the same time. Also, could you put some page transition effects in your site builder like Yahoo has? These effects would really work good as image transitions too (such as…for a good slide show. Check out the page transitions on my yahoo site at http://www.christianwolff.com.
April 30, 2008 at 4:44 pm |
To whom it may concern,
I really agree with Mr. Wolf in regards to page transitions. You had them a long time ago and you discontinued them. Bring them back!!
I also agree with his comment on the Photo Gallery. It was OK, just needed work. The new Gallery is in dire need of a slide show effect. Placing one picture on your site and clicking and going to the Gallery and seeing a slide show would be great and also adding music to enhance it. Clicking on one picture at a time is boring. You have the bases, now expand on it. Good Work
Adam at http://www.matchtodestiny.com
November 17, 2008 at 6:13 pm |
Nice article – love the sample buttons shown in the article – they are beautiful. Too bad the Homestead product doesn’t have button choices like this to choose from – instead you offer extremely hideous button styles that no sane person would ever use on their website -