Web developer Mary Lou shows a great tutorial on how you can create animated buttons with CSS3. The idea here is to have different styles with hover effects and active states. You can check out her tutorial with live demo and downloadable source by clicking the image.

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Sergio created five different button styles using this one approach but I’m only going to show you just one of them, which actually happens to be my favorite one. If you like to see the rest of the styles, you can check them out on his dribble page.

The button that we’re going to create will look like this:

Click on the image for the demo.

We’ll keep our HTML markup as short and simple as possible with this:

<a href="#">

Click me!
 </a>

And now for the magic of CSS:

.a_demo_three {

background-color:#3bb3e0;

font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;

font-size:12px;

text-decoration:none;

color:#fff;

position:relative;

padding:10px 20px;

border-left:solid 1px #2ab7ec;

margin-left:35px;
background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(44,160,202) 0%, rgb(62,184,229) 100%);

border-top-right-radius: 5px;

border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;

box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px #2ab7ec, 0px 5px 0px 0px #156785, 0px 10px 5px #999;

}

.a_demo_three:active {

top:3px;

background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(62,184,229) 0%, rgb(44,160,202) 100%);

box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px #2ab7ec, 0px 2px 0px 0px #156785, 0px 5px 3px #999;

}

.a_demo_three::before {

content:"·";

width:35px;

max-height:29px;

height:100%;

position:absolute;

display:block;

padding-top:8px;

top:0px;

left:-36px;

font-size:16px;

font-weight:bold;

color:#8fd1ea;

text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #07526e;

border-right:solid 1px #07526e;

background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(10,94,125) 0%, rgb(14,139,184) 100%);

border-top-left-radius: 5px;

border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;

box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px #2ab7ec, 0px 5px 0px 0px #032b3a, 0px 10px 5px #999 ;

}

.a_demo_three:active::before {

top:-3px;

box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px #2ab7ec, 0px 5px 0px 0px #032b3a, 1px 1px 0px 0px #044a64, 2px 2px 0px 0px #044a64, 2px 5px 0px 0px #044a64, 6px 4px 2px #0b698b, 0px 10px 5px #999 ;
 }

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Clickable buttons add visual appeal and functionality to any website. Madalin Tudose‘s tutorial on creating CSS3 buttons is applicable to all modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc., and even old browsers like IE6.

CSS3, allows you to create fantastic styles like gradients, rounded corners and borders. The tutorial only uses CSS3 web elements that are compatible with all browsers, so there’s no need to worry about support conflict. You can download the ZIP FILE and check the full details HERE.

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• Dennis Sa - for the jsbin of the matte buttons http://jsbin.com/efesot/6
• Trevor Gerzen – for applying the transitions, and
• Chris Coyier – for coming up with this neat trick and sharing it on the web.

HTML

As for the base styles for all three states (default, hover, active):

CSS

NOTE: This is short tutorial just teaches you how to mimic the look and not the function. So if you want to be able to include menu functionality on the buttons (like YouTube does) you can check out this link and try incorporating the code there with the one here.

Demo

Download Files

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Now, it is easier than ever to add the Facebook famous “Like”/”Recommend” to your posts and increase your blog popularity. The “Like” button allows users to share their ‘like’ of your WordPress Blog with their friends on Facebook.

Every time a user clicks on the “Like” button on your blog, it creates a status update on the user’s Facebook News Feed with a link back to your WordPress Blog.

Here is how you do it:

1.       Login as administrator to the WordPress admin panel.

2.       Go to Appearance -> Editor.

3.       Place the following code wherever you want the like button to appear:

<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID)); ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=350&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:350px; height:25px”></iframe>

4.       Save the changes, and the final result should look like this:

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The download (PSD) includes a variety of colours and adding your own is a simple process. With this download all the hard work is done for you as the buttons include a normal, hover and active state.

Website: http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/chunky-3d-webbuttons-psd

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To implement this plugin is pretty simple. Add a standard select to the page and then make 1 jQuery call to convert it into buttons:

<script>
   $('select[name=simple-select]').select2Buttons();
</script>

It has several options for customization, such as js change callbacks, disabled options, disabled selects, OptGroups and allows no default selection (like threadless).

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://o-sam-o.github.com/select2Buttons
License: MIT License

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If you have a button that triggers a negative action, like deleting data, it’s good practice to warn the user by styling the button differently than the normal buttons. Give a button the class .negative and the hover-state will change from blue to red. You can also create grouped buttons that are linked together, like seen at Gmail and other places, by using the .left, .middle and .right classes.

CSS3 Buttons supports a wide range of icons that can easily be added to any button by adding a span tag inside the anchor tag with the class of .icon and any one of the provided icon classes. CSS3 Buttons works in all major browsers.  Some CSS3 features used in CSS3 Buttons is not supported in Internet Explorer browsers!

Requirements:-
Demo: http://css3buttons.michaelhenriksen.dk
License: Unlicense

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