Creating artwork in Illustrator

The Illustrator symbols are a great resource for creating nice looking buttons.…Here in the Symbols panel, I'm going to go to the lower left to the Symbol…Libraries Menu and choose Web Buttons and Bars There're a number of nice…navigational buttons, we have some nice sort of generic capsule shaped buttons.…I'm going to drag one of those in.…I know this looks enormous, but that's because this is actually a very small…artboard, it's 2 inches by 1 inch.…There's really no reason to make a great big artboard, because your buttons…aren't going to be huge in your resulting Acrobat file, I don't think.…

I can modify this even though it's a symbol.…I can change the height of it and so forth.…I can change the color of it.…Notice of course, when I drag that symbol into the artboard, it's also added to…my main Symbols' panel.…There're a number of other symbols that you might want to explore, great little…navigation buttons, so forth and so on.…Just remember this, it's just a great resource, it keeps you from having to draw…