/2012/02/08/tutorial-chiclet-buttons/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/08\/tutorial-chiclet-buttons\/","trash":"","name":"tutorial-chiclet-buttons","parent":"","title":"Tutorial on how to make chiclet buttons","date":"2012-02-08 11:33:42","filepath":"posts\/20001258_tutorial-chiclet-buttons.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blulob.com\/2009\/05\/17\/create-social-networking-chiclets-photoshop\/\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1259\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"chiclet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/chiclet.png\" alt=\"chiclet\" width=\"90\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>I ran across a good <a href=\"http:\/\/blulob.com\/2009\/05\/17\/create-social-networking-chiclets-photoshop\/\">tutorial<\/a> for making chiclet buttons by spelling the word incorrectly as chicklet. \u00a0I know the buttons are named after the gum of old, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiclets\">Chiclets<\/a>, because of the shape... but my typing fingers have a mind of their own.\n\nSpeaking of which, what happened to that gum? \u00a0Are they all imprisoned in gum ball machines in the midwest? \u00a0Man, that gum was savory... for a whole 3 minutes.\n\nThe tutorial is for photoshop, but it isn't too hard to get the fundamental elements of the button and apply it to something like <a href=\"http:\/\/inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>. \u00a0How is it there is a dearth of vector graphics for icons on the web (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scalable_Vector_Graphics\">svg<\/a>)? \u00a0Icons need all sorts of sizes and SVG handles\u00a0resizing\u00a0like a dream.\n\n<em>carry on to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blulob.com\/2009\/05\/17\/create-social-networking-chiclets-photoshop\/\">tutorial<\/a>.<\/em>"}}
