Site or app for nice menubar graphics

[Frank_Rizzo]

Can you recommend a good source (site or application) which will create nice looking menubars.

The type I am after are where you use in a table (td) background and have a highlight colour on the top and shadow on the bottom.

What kind of app are we looking at Photoshop? Corel or will something like PSP do?

[korkus2000]

You can do it with any you mentioned but I think fireworks is the easiest to do it in. Photoshop's image ready will also do it easily. You can really do it in any program making a picture with a bevel.

[limbo]

I second Korkus.

Fireworks is my weapon of choice for image editing for the web beacause its so quick to learn and has an excellent interface with Dreamweaver

The 'Export Fireworks HTML & Images' function is very nice - but it will need to be further optimised when placed into the webpage to reduce code bloat and download time of images.

Match this with Dreamweavers 'Import Fireworks HTML' and you can have a decent menubar on your webpage very quickly.

[Frank_Rizzo]

OK, cheers guys I'll go and check it out.

BTW, I'm using Hotmetal but I see dreamweaver is popular.

Seeing as Hotmetal is not supported anymore (Corel dumped it) do you think it would be a good move to use DW?

[trillianjedi]

Don't necessarily think "bevel" - take a look at google's buttons as an example.

Often 2D with the right colours can look more modern and professional. Alternatively, simple text with a lighting effect (or inner/outer edge lighting as in Photoshop) can look very slick with just a transparent background.

Worth thinking a little outside the box, rather than being influenced by something just because it's considered "normal".

Almost any graphics package will help you do the job.

TJ

[Jon_King]

A wise move. DW for sure.