In each website, personalization is a key feature so that visitors will remember your site easily. Aside from creative pictures and colors, a button or a badge could be used to personalize your website. These buttons or badges can be used as a link to another site. These badges can also be added to other websites. It’s like your ID so that others will easily recognize you faster. It’s also a good link exchange tool if you want your page ranking increased.
In this post, I’ll give you sites where you can personally design your own badge. Although it has limitations but these limitations are used to standardize all buttons in one way or the other. Best of all their basic service for creating a badge in these sites is free.
Kalsey.com – Adam Alsey has created a very simple tool that lets you create a simple button. You will have two boxes to fill in your name. You can change the color of the boxes using the HTML code for colors. If you’re not familiar with the codes, you can just click on the little button on the left and select your preferred color. As soon as you hit “submit,” your badge will be displayed on top of the customization page. Just right click the image and save the picture manually.
Blogflux Buttonmaker - This button maker tool works like Kalsey.com. The interface is clearer and the charts are bigger. There’s also an additional option in getting a bigger badge. Instead of the regular 80×15 button you can get something bigger with the size of 88×31. It also has an option of saving the image manually or you can just click on “save image.”
Buttonator.com – The basic version of the Buttonator is free. For $10 a month, you can gain access with the latest button or badge design plus they will host the button for you. You can customize the block of your badge according to their present colors. You can even add a very small image to your button for example; if you want the button to signify that it’s a shortcut for a shopping cart, you can add a cart image in your badge. You can also change the font type, size and make as bold, italized or underlined letter.
Buttonboost.com – The website is quite crowded and complicated to understand from the start but the website completely free so you have all the time to use it. You can use the quick start functionality and get the button immediately. It might take you more than an hour to fully understand how it works but once you’re there, you’ll have unlimited options of badges for your site.
Buttonbrowser.com – It works just like the first two sites but it gives you the ability to upload the image in ImageShack.com and host the image for free. You can also select from six present font sizes. Just make sure the size that you specified fits in the box you created.
