SPWD

I recently was in need of generating a glass effect for a site I was doing work on, and found a rich tutorial over on Evan Roberts’ blog (http://www.evroccck.com/web-design/fireworks-8-tutorial-create-a-button-w-glass-effect/) and  have expounded upon it a little bit to add some different feels to the end results.  Sometimes, people say creating images such as this are old fashioned web design ideas (dating to just post dot.com bust) and are not slated generally for Web 2.0.  Then others will say as long as it is asthetically pleasing for your target audience and such that this type of web graphic is great.

I say what ever you want to use that is appealing to your target audience is what you should use.  In this case I had a need to generate some Glass Goodness effects for a site layout (which I will be releasing a template based upon this just shortly).  The following will be a step-by-step, illustrated guide to creating some Glassy Goodness, focused on buttons.  There will be another tutorial that will focus on Glassy Goodness for use in other areas of a web site, such as a header or footer.

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