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Animated Button Effects #89: Challenge | Recap
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Challenge of the Week
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This week, your challenge is to have fun with buttons! Play with different shapes, styles, and effects to show how you can use buttons creatively in e-learning. Be sure to include the Normal, Hover, and Selected states in your work.
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Examples of Animated Button Effects
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This week’s challenge is all about buttons. I’ve rounded up a few sites that feature creative hover effects. While not all hover styles and effects are possible in Storyline, there are a lot of creative ideas to help you create your own buttons.
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Icon Hover Effects
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Here’s a great collection of simple hover effects for circular buttons. Most of the effects can be applied to other button shapes.
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View Icon Hover Effects
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Creative Button Styles
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Here are some more ideas for subtle hover styles and effects for buttons. I really like the ghost effect used in the hover states.
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View Creative Button Styles
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CSS3 Button Hover Effects
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Great collection of hover effects for buttons. Even though some of the effects aren't possible, there are still many ways to achieve the overall essence of the effects.
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View CSS3 Hover Effects
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Last Week’s Challenge:
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Before you begin animating your next buttons, check out the soundboards your fellow community members shared in last week's audio challenge:
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Interactive Audio in E-Learning #88: Challenge | Recap
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Wishing you a button-tastic week, E-Learning Heroes!
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New to E-Learning Challenges?
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The weekly challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.
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I used slide background fills, so they'll work on different backgrounds. Published example here:
http://files.articulate.com.s3.amazonaws.com/davidf/elh/challenge/89/story.htmlProject file here:
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http://files.articulate.com.s3.amazonaws.com/davidf/elh/challenge/89/story.htmlProject file here:
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