Problem with pretty buttons (screenshot incl)

[TalkieT]

Hi all... I have the site http://www.nzsnaps.com and I have just noticed that some of the buttons on my site are ugly. It's almost certainly an issue with me screwing something up with the customisation and over-riding the newer, better looking themes etc - but having spent a few minutes comparing my site to another with the pretty buttons ( http://666pix.smugmug.com/gallery/4024417#234244591 ) for Share, Slideshow and Comment, I just can't figure out what I have done wrong...

Screenshots below comparing what I have and what I want to see...

This is what I have (note the ugly buttons)

http://neilnz.com/stuff/uglysm.jpg

And this is what I want (Note the pretty buttons)

http://neilnz.com/stuff/prettysm.jpg

Please help.

Cheers - Neil G

[Allen]

Hi all... I have the site http://www.nzsnaps.com and I have just noticed that some of the buttons on my site are ugly. It's almost certainly an issue with me screwing something up with the customisation and over-riding the newer, better looking themes etc - but having spent a few minutes comparing my site to another with the pretty buttons ( http://666pix.smugmug.com/gallery/4024417#234244591 ) for Share, Slideshow and Comment, I just can't figure out what I have done wrong...

Screenshots below comparing what I have and what I want to see...

This is what I have (note the ugly buttons)
And this is what I want (Note the pretty buttons)
Please help.

Cheers - Neil G
The two at the top are images. You can replace with your own image. The
comment button border and text can be changed with CSS or you might be
able to add an image for it.

[TalkieT]

The two at the top are images. You can replace with your own image. The
comment button border and text can be changed with CSS or you might be
able to add an image for it.

Thanks for the response... A followup question is are those pretty buttons standard in a theme or something? Or has the other site owner provided his own graphics for them? I'm not interested in providing my own custom buttons, just in what prettier options might be easily available - and it annoys me that I can't figure out if those buttons are custom, or part of a theme etc...

Cheers - N

[Allen]

Thanks for the response... A followup question is are those pretty buttons standard in a theme or something? Or has the other site owner provided his own graphics for them? I'm not interested in providing my own custom buttons, just in what prettier options might be easily available - and it annoys me that I can't figure out if those buttons are custom, or part of a theme etc...

Cheers - N
Take a look at all the themes here (http://themes.smugmug.com/) and see if there is an existing buttton that
you like.

[TalkieT]

Thanks for the pointer... Found what it's doing, but still have no real idea how to fix...

I chose Smugmug Gradient as theme (the buttons are from there) but it still showed up as my page, with the ugly buttons...

Went in to customise page and reset the theme to Smugmug Gradient AND (this is what did it) selected to use appearance = Smugmug (instead of appearance=custom)... When I did that, I had a default Smugmug appearance with the nice buttons.

When I switched back to my custom theme, it put the ugly buttons back... I guess I'll have to delve into the source and figure out what changes need to be made. Aaargh. I don't like this web language thingy :-(

Thanks for the pointers though - very helpful so far.

Cheers - N