Adding Buttons to Website Wireframe: Step-by-Step Guide

In this video we'll begin adding buttons to our website wireframe. Let's begin by creating a new layer.

We'll then retitle this layer as 'buttons' and hit ENTER. We're ready to begin adding our buttons. To do this we'll be utilizing the rectangle tool.

We'll select it and let's add our first button right below the text. Starting from the center guide and dragging it down and to the right. When you're happy with the size and shape of your button, release and we now have a black button.

Let's now line it up with the right-hand side of our text. To do this, I'll hit V on the keyboard and holding shift to move only horizontally, I'll drag it to the right until I see that it intersects with the text above. Next, I'm ready to add text.

I'll zoom in just to get a better view and we'll add the text below. We'll use the type tool shortcut T on the keyboard and we can simply click, and in this case, we'll type the words 'button text' and hit escape on the keyboard to exit type mode. We now want to add this text onto our button and to do so we'll click and drag it onto the button releasing, but as we notice with the black text as well as the black button, we can see that it doesn't appear.

Therefore, let's change the color of our text from black to white. To do this, we can double click the fill or if we go into our color panel, we'll see that we have easy access to colors, including none or no fill, black, and white. In this case, let's select white and as we can see, we now have white text on top of a black button.

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If we click outside, we can see the result. Looking at this now, we need to align our button text to our rectangle. To do so, let's select the button text and while we have it selected, let's make one additional change.

Rather than having Chivo light, let's change it so that it becomes italicized. We'll click the font style options and select light italic. We're now ready to center it within the button.

If we hold shift, we can select the button and with both selected, we now want to go to our alignment options. We'll select align and align to key object, making sure that we select the outer rectangle, which is now a thick highlighted line, ensuring that it's the key. We'll then go to align and select horizontal alignment as well as vertical alignment and we know for certain that our button text is now centered within our button.

Next, we want to duplicate this button. To do so, I'll select both the text and, holding shift, I'll select the button behind. We'll then hold ALT and drag our button to the left-hand side until we see that it intersects both with the left-hand side of our text and that there's a horizontal line aligning with the button on the right.

We'll then release and we have duplicate buttons. Let's make one more change now. Changing this button so it has a white background with black text.

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We'll select the button, and rather than having a black fill, we'll swap the fill and stroke so that it has no fill with a black stroke. Next, we need to change our white text to black. We'll select the text, and for the fill, we'll go to our color panel and select black.

Let's zoom out and view our wireframe. If we want to make a couple changes to this in the spacing, we can. For instance, I'd like to move my title up.

So I'll simply click and drag it, holding shift, and move it up. Additionally, I'll move my center text up, holding shift and releasing, and finally, I want to select all the button elements to move them down slightly. I'll hold shift as I select each of them and move them down.

This gives us a little bit more space within our wireframe and I think it makes it look a little more appealing. Feel free to make spacing changes as you see fit and let's hit CTRL S on our keyboard to save our work and in the next video, we'll begin working on our background. See you there!