How to Make Buttons

New Sites makes buttons easy.

Use Google's 'Add Button' Feature:

Under the 'Insert' menu, you can insert a ready made button. Input the text you want to appear on the button, and the link, and the button will be created for you. You can link to your other sites and Google Drive for site pages or Google Drive item. Or you can enter the URL to a website (web address) where you want the button to link to.

The button is shaped like a text box, and the colour will automatically default to that of your chosen theme.

NOTE:

1. Button links to external sites will open and display in a new tab.

2. There are limited style selections available - Filled, Outline, Text.

To change the size of the button, just drag and it will snap to the nearest grid line.

Make your own buttons

Make buttons using images, and Google Drawings or any Draw/Paint Programme.

Save them as a png and upload them to the Site.

Link to the desired destination.

Buttons From Google Drawings:

• Create a new Google drawing
• Select the shape for your button and adjust the Google drawing background palette to suit the shape
• Make the inside of the shape transparent
• Add a border to the shape - select thickness and colour
• Find an image for the button - download the image onto your computer, or drag and drop it onto the drawing
• Adjust size of the image to to suit the button - cover the shape.
• Under the Arrange menu, send the image to the back
• Select a text box and write any text you want to appear on the button. Adjust font, size, style, etc.
• Adjust opacity of the image so that you can read the text
• Select the image layer, find the crop menu. Use the dropdown to select the shape of the button. This should crop your image to the same shape as the button. You may need to adjust.
• Under the File menu, download as a png
• Go to the page on your Site where the button will appear
• Double click on site - select upload
• Select the downloaded button
• Click the link icon to link the button to desired page
• Apply

Custom made buttons

Make a button at https://dabuttonfactory.com/ and save it to your computer.

Click Upload in the Insert menu and select the button image file to insert it.

Click the Insert Link icon above the inserted image and enter the URL you want the button to go to.

See Update: Timeline. You can send feedback to Google to make your feature requests known.