Stupid CSS tricks
Okay, so I was bored, so I went ahead and did a green button. I now find it utterly baffling that this little trick isn't more widespread. I see all these stupid little GIFs for the syndication buttons on all these sites I find.
So the CSS for it is just this:
.button { background: #ff6600;
color: white;
border-left: 1px solid #ff9a57;
border-top: 1px solid #ffc8a4;
border-right: 1px solid #7d3302;
border-bottom: 1px solid #3f1a01;
padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.5em;
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: small;
text-decoration: none; }
Then you make your link <a class="button" href="rss.xml">XML</a> and up comes a little orange button. You can even put all thet style nonsense into the style= attribute of the a tag if you want.