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Fun Find: Button Generator.com

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I was looking at some sites around the Internet that had unique and personal buttons for their blogs last night. That seemed like a fun thing to do. Fun is something there just isn’t enough of in my life during the gray Chicago winter months. So I went hunting for a button maker. I figured it was one more way I might brand my personal blog.

Boyhowdy! Did I find one! What kind of button would you like? Will you be having a menu to go with that?

FUN Find: Button Generator.com
Type of Site: Webmasters’ resource for creating buttons and menus
Target Audience: Anyone who wants a one-of-a-kind button
Content: This site has an easy and a pro generator. It has a huge variety of free choices for making buttons and menus and provides member services. The free choices are extensive and quite elegant. In fact, I found myself enjoying the experience of making choices a relaxing change from a stressful day. (But that could just me be. We know I have that weird side.)

Before you enter there are two things you should be aware of:

All buttons also come with their own code. We’re talking Super-Buttons. You can use hex charts to change every color. If you use the advanced format you can change every layer of color. You could be here all day. You could be here until next Friday morning!

buttongenerator_com

There are 11 pages of sample buttons. This is just one of them. The menu generator designs menus that match the buttons. How cool is that?

I can’t believe you won’t be able to find something that perfectly expresses you and your blog’s design. In fact, the bigger worry is that this site could very well get you into a button collecting mood. You might even start a button-trading club. Then you’ll have to join Button Generators Anonymous. Please use this information with caution. This site really is addictive. I might just have to become a member so that I can play with the button generator everyday now and forever.

C’mon. You know, you wanna.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Fun Find: Instant Blog Post Generator

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And this from a site called Flooble:

You know how sometimes you feel like you haven’t posted anything to your blog for a while, and you should really get around to doing it, but there’s nothing to really write about? We’ve all been there. That’s why we at flooble have decided to give you an Instant Blog Post Generator.

Now you can have a ready-to-post entry for your blog with just one click of a button. Our system is random enough that there’s thousands of variations to the post that it can generate, so if you don’t like how it came out, you can simply keep clicking until the generator comes up with something you find acceptable.

Instant Blog Post Generator

Be careful, if you go playing around on this site, there are plenty of pop-ups and pop-unders for you to play with as well. Still there is fun to be had for a minute or two.

Remember quality is king, but fun is fun.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Thousands of Ways to Play on the Web

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Worldwide Day of Play

Today is the Official Worldwide Day of Play. So I thought I might send along some things that would encourage you to take part.

Click each screenshot to explore what they’re about.

Button Generator

13,000 Free Fonts

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18 Best Color Tools

Draw Space — Nearly 200 Art Lessons

JibJab

Hundreds of Kongregate Games

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Glogster — Create!

Motivator: Create your own customized motivational poster

Hundreds of Painting Games

painting games

String Spin Toy

More and More Crafts for Kids

Enjoy this Worldwide Day of Play!
Hope this made it a little more fun!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Sandy’s Great Graphic Find: CoolText

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Create Logos and Buttons with CoolText Graphics Generator

Great Find: CoolText

Permalink: http://cooltext.com/

Target Audience: Computer users who want to create buttons

Content: Every now and then I need a button. Sure, I have all the programs to create my own, but why spend the time when there are tools out there that can finish the job quickly.

There are a lot of button generators, but this one caught my attention because it worked so well. Recently a few people told me the ‘hire me’ on my site doesn’t look like a link, so it seemed like a good time to try out CoolText. Here’s what I created.

Hire Purple Wren

Then check out the logo designs. I’m not crazy about the terminology and would prefer banner, or something more descriptive. But it doesn’t really matter what they call them, there’s a great selection. Remember to save the image files on your computer because they don’t store them.

It took longer to write this post than to create the buttons/banners.

Joy

Here are six things I like about CoolText:

  1. You can create an account to save your designs
  2. There’s more than 1200 fonts available
  3. It’s easy to use
  4. You can edit your button until it’s just right
  5. There are several file types to choose from
  6. It’s free!

Click the screenshot to go there.

Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator

Let me know how you use CoolText!

See you next time!

–Sandy, Purple Wren

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Great Find: Surfing the Net with Kids

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Something for the weekend. . .

Great Find: Surfing the Net with Kids by Barbara J. Feldman
Type of Site: Interactive site for families
Permalink: http://www.surfnetkids.com/
Target Audience: Families

Content: As the “Cat in the Hat” book starts out, “It was a rainy day . . .” The next day when there’s nothing to do, or you just want to play on the computer with your kids, have I got a place for you. Surfing the Net for Kids is a portal to web sits for kids that brings together everying from color book activities to Harry Potter game sties. You’ll find History, Science, and information for kids of every ages. It will keep you moving through great games and content for hours. Click the screenshot and have a look.

Wish they had this when I was a kid.

–Me “Liz” Strauss
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Why I Don’t Play Monopoly with My Husband

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Pile of currency

Playing Monopoly

My husband could have thought up this site.

Whenever I landed on the dark blue, high-rent property with too many hotels, during a game of Monopoly, he would always say

“Give me all your money.”

Click the sentence above or the image to follow the link.
PLEASE DO NOT FILL OUT THIS FORM. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

I wonder . . . do you think they get any takers?
What was it that P. T. Barnum was supposed to have said?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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