What's New

Vista Buttons v5.7 released (March 24, 2011)

New:
* 11 hi-quality icon sets are added, 1800+ icons in total! All icons are available with Business version only.
* Text alignment for submenu items and text-based buttons.

    V5.7 Icon Packs:

Vista Buttons v5.5 released (October 28, 2010)

New:
* Dark Glossy, Flat Glossy, Light Glossy, Glow styles: 74 button themes, 50 menu templates, 58 button templates.
* Fully updated plugins for Dreamviewer CS 5, Expression Web 4.
* 'Page Insert' wizard! Simply click inside the page to select where you want the menu to appear and press "Insert After". No more HTML editing required!

* Bug fixes.

Vista Buttons v5.0 released (April 15, 2010)

New:
* Now the menus are fully accessible even if javascript is turned off, as a pure css menu.
* Android, PalmPre, iPad styles : 148 button themes, 75 menu templates, 60 button templates.
* 24 hi-quality icon sets are added, 1400+ icons in total! Most icons and templates are available with Business version only.
* CSS-like syntax for padding and border width in submenus, e.g: 0 1px 0 2px.
* Text offset for normal and hot states.
* Apply icons for button and submenu arrows. Right click on the selected icon and choose where you want to use it:

Templates:


Vista Buttons v4.5 released (January 19, 2010)

New:
* New templates with image border and image background for submenu!

   

* Vista Buttons now provides plugin for Expression Web 3.
* New hi-quality themes for image buttons and menus.
Live demos:

Toolbars Samples
Rounded Styles
Rounded Corner Style

Theme screenshots:
* The generated code is fully XHTML compliant now.
* German version of the website is added.
* Dutch version of the website is added.
* Italian version of the website is added.
* Swedish version of the website is added.

Vista Buttons v4.3 released (August 6, 2009)

New:
* New hi-quality themes for image buttons with shadows and transparency:
* "Button templates" tab in the theme window with hundreds of fresh image buttons.

Just select template you like and type a text label!
* New font rendering options are added:
      - subpixel rendering;
      - glow effect;
      - customizable shadow;

* Easy and Advanced mode.

* Portuguese version of the website is added.

Vista Buttons v4.1.1 released (June 23, 2009)

New:
* New hi-quality iPhone and Windows 7 themes with shadows for image buttons.
"iPhone" theme

"Windows 7" theme (available with Business version only)

* Re-created Web2.0 themes.

* The target link to pdf files opened twice with target=_blank in Internet Explorer.
* French version of the website is added.
* New Brazilian (Portuguese) language is added.
* Minor changes in Theme Editor

Vista Buttons v4.0 released (May 27, 2009)

New:
* Exact adjustment for button image color. Now you can fine tune the color of top-level image buttons using hex value or color control.

* Option for Mac-style font smoothing.

* Wide improvements in Theme Editor.

* New hi-quality "Glossy Round" theme for image buttons.

* New Hebrew language is added.

Vista Buttons v3.91 released (April 22, 2009)

New:
* Additionally to Dreamweaver and FrontPage extension, Vista Buttons now provides plugin for Expression Web. Create, insert, modify a menu without leaving your favorite web design framework!

Notice that your menu won't function in Preview mode of Expression Web. You should preview your page in the browser.
Select "File/Preview in browser/IExplore" to display the page live (in Internet Explorer).
* 3 new hi-quality icon collections are added: Mango (96 icons), Vista(107 icons), Glossy (106). Glossy and Vista themes are available with Business version only.

* New tutorials:
    - How to create a menu with Dreamweaver extension.
    - How to create a menu with FrontPage add-in.
Watch at http://vista-buttons.com/video-tutorials.html

Vista Buttons v3.70 released (April 13, 2009)

New:
* Now Vista Buttons integrates with Dreamweaver and FrontPage as an extension/add-in. Create, insert, modify a menu without leaving your favorite web design framework!
During the installation you'll be prompted to select if you'd like to install available plug-ins.

Notice that you will be able to install plug-ins if Frontpage or Dreamweaver are installed on your computer only!

Dreamweaver plug-in:

Frontpage plug-in:

Notice also that your menu won't function in Design mode (Dreamweaver) or Preview mode (FrontPage). You should preview your page in the browser.
Select "File/Preview in browser/IExplore" to display the page live (in Internet Explorer).
Vista Buttons v3.05 released (March 16, 2009)

Fix:
* An error "Invalid Pointer operation" appeared after clicking on the themes list.
* It was not possible to specify different frame names as target property for buttons and subitems.
New:
* New option to create text-based top items is added! Such menu will be loaded more quickly on your website (in comparison with image-based navigation).
Menu structure is comprised of HTML nested UL and LI tags. Standards compliant menu structure is simple to customize and update.

* Video tutorial - How to create a text-based menu using Vista Buttons. See It Now!
* You can create your own buttons from all supported image formats (.bmp, .jpg, .gif, .png) using Theme Editor now!
* The optional automatic preview of the generated html page with the menu in the default browser is available. Go to "Tools / Export Options..." to enable this option.

* XP Web Buttons project file format support.
* New languages are added (Swedish, Czech, and Danish).
* New blank theme is added (Blank theme). Use this theme to create a menu with icons as button's themes. See a screenshot for more info.
* New icons - 178 new icons are added (available in Home License) and 290 new icons are added (available in Business License).

Video Tutorial!    Created: Jan 20, 2009

* Video tutorial - Create a simple menu using Vista Buttons. See It Now!
* Video tutorial - How to create web menu with Vista Buttons. See It Now!

New languages!    Vista Buttons v2.81 (Jan 20, 2009)

* New languages are added (Japanese, Italian, Spanish).

Vista Buttons v2.81 released (Nov 06, 2008)

* New languages are added (Bahasa Malaysia, French).
* New icons - 100 new icons are added (available in Business License only).

Vista Buttons v2.79 released (Sep 30, 2008)

* Google Chrome support is verified!
* Detailed hints for all interface controls are added
* New languages are added (German, Dutch, Polisch, Romanian, Hungarian)!

   Vista Buttons v2.73 released (Sep 01, 2008)

New:
* "Save all menu params to js file" option, see 'Tools/Export Options'.

If checked, all params will be saved to one .js file
If not, the menu structure will be placed to HTML code
* Support for submenus transparency

* Drag&drop support to open Vista Butons projects
* Fresh look
* 3613 new web2.0 hi-res icons are added (most available with Business License only)

Fixes:
* In some versions of Windows OS the black backgound appeared in the list of themes
* The target link opened twice with target=_blank in submenu
* It was not possible to change Saturation/Lightness parameters not changing Hue in Theme Editor
* An error appeared during writing into the .ini file on MS Vista OS

   Vista Buttons v2.45 released (Jan 23, 2008)

New:
* Ready to use templates are added. It helps you to apply samples easily.

* XP Web Buttons project file format support.
* Now you can choose image format when export button images.
* Submenu item's tool tips weren't saved.
* New icons - 1000 new icons are added (available in Business License only).

   Vista Buttons v2.27 released (Oct 25, 2007)

New:
* Icon themes were added. It helps you to apply icons easily.

* New icon themes:

Click to see all icons

* All icons in several sizes (up to 256x256)

   Vista Buttons v2.10 released (Sep 10, 2007)

New:
* Undo/Redo
* Separators for submenus
* Names of images now don't change with every new export to HTML
* Recent used files list in "File" menu
* Default folder for projects and html files moved to current user My Document folder

Vista Buttons v2.0 released (Aug 1, 2007)

New:
* Unlimited levels of submenus

* Icons can be added for submenu items
* Arrows for the buttons and subitems
* Windows Vista icons' support
* Selection of buttons and icons using mouse
* Multiple selection of submenu items with Ctrl or Shift
* Highlighting the chosen template
* Optimization of menu styles
* Export to .BMP format
* New samples


   Vista Buttons v1.17 released (May 2, 2007)

New:
* Option to show arrow if the top button has submenu
* Minor fixes in generated html, js, css files
* 7 new themes for buttons and submenus


   Vista Buttons v1.0.3 - First Release!