This tutorial is step by step. As long as you would follow you will be fine and hopefully won't get lost on the steps. You don't need a software or any experience on graphic design or something to animate a banner or button.

Choose the font, text size, and color then type the text you want to appear on your button. Then click "preview." You can drag text to position by pointing and holding on your mouse over the text on the button.

4. Click APPLY when you're satisfied on the text position. Then SAVE the button on your desktop by right clicking on it.

5. NOW WE HAVE TO REPEAT STEP ONE. CLICK ON  FILE, OPEN TO DOWNLOAD THE SAME BLANK BUTTON AGAIN.

6. Click on the capital T once the blank button was uploaded.

7. Again, select the font, size, and color of the text. Type whatever you want to appear on your blank button on the text area.

8. Click PREVIEW. Drag text to position you want. Then click APPLY.

9. SAVE the button on your desktop by right clicking on it.

10. Now we're ready to animate the buttons. Click on EFFECTS and choose START ANIMATION WIZARD.

 

 

11. Click on BROWSE to upload the buttons you made, one at a time.

12. Then click on CREATE MY ANIMATION. The button will then be animated.

 

13. SAVE the button to your desktop by right clicking on it.

14. You can host it to free hosting sites such as photobucket, or imageshock.

USES OF A BUTTON:

Blog or site buttons are use on plugboards ( to plug your blog/sites), on topsites (where you can submit yor site or blog),  and on link exchange, blog rolls, swap links, blog or site affiliates, etc. Also some blog or site directories are asking for banners or buttons for site submission.