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I used a Gimp plugin called Aqua Bou.  It makes them pretty easy.  The only tricky part is getting each one to be the same width.

I use cooltext.com to create badges.

Thanks, I've used them before to make things, though I hadn't yet tried their button maker.  Not too bad.

And these second ones are 128x37 px.  Colors aren't exactly the same, but very close.

Here's a few that I made tonight.  Not quite what I'm looking for, but it's a start.  I'll post in two messages.  These first ones are 100x29 px.

I've fiddled with The Gimp and made a few, but they just don't seem classy enough.

I've been looking for a collection of badges that would be appropriate for a professional business help desk, but have not found the mother lode yet.  By "badges" I mean the little graphics that take place of the "stars."

I've seen archives that claimed to be thousands of badges, but they were always just "one more click away" through web pages that I didn't trust.

Anyone know of a good link to find what I'm looking for?

The site's back up, but it seems like I end up clicking on things twice before something happens.  This may be my imagination but I'm pretty sure that started a little before the site went down.

A birthday riddle for you.

Am I the only one who checked his pants when I signed up? 

I think you've got one or two more posts before it goes away.

Robbo gave a whole page of good suggestions!

tfs, I agree... I hate being politically correct, however, the key thing that you have to do is be tactful about it... and that's what I had an issue with.  You did do a bit of a "mea culpa", so that's why I calmed myself down.

If it looked like a mea culpa, I take it back.    But I took some pains to clarify things.  This is a particularly hard situation, because I initially thought that smithtr was trolling.  The vocabulary depth is much larger than the dialect would match up with.  And, Smithtr, my apologies for discussing you openly in a forum, I promise to stop after this, because it makes me feel uncomfortable, and it may cause you to feel that as well, though you may find it refreshing for all I know.    Anyway, I no longer believe you to be a troll, and so now I'll shut my yap and let the whole thing go.  God Bless you!  I hope your forum works out well.  If you still want me to interact with you, let me know and I'll sign up at your forum.

Here's a random fact for you all to consider.

I have a disability, not that you'd ever realise it to look at me... I have no sense of smell. It is in every sense of the word a disability, and there have been times it has been problematic, but I can tell you it's the sort of experience that shapes your view of the world.

Wow, I couldn't imaging going through life with no sense of smell.  Probably because it's not possible for us to turn off our sense of smell, the way we could close our eyes, or be silent, or plug our ears.  About fifteen years ago, in an effort to understand human nature better, I closed my eyes for about 6 hours, and tried to learn by touch where everything in my house was located.  I actually walked sloooowly around and felt every "border" by hand, which is difficult when you don't want to knock things over and break them.  It was an interesting experiment, and it taught me a few things about being blind.  Of course, all the while I knew that I could open my eyes when I wanted, so the experiment was deeply flawed, but nonetheless I feel like it was enlightening.

This being St. Patrick's day, my wife has a crock pot full of corned beef and cabbage simmering out there in the kitchen... and I've been more and more aware of it all day, because of the wonderful smell.

So now the human nature part of me, that even now looks to shield myself from the slings and arrows of political correctness, is searching for a disability or liability that I can use as a badge of protection for when I might say something stupid one day.  But it's not there.  I've had a blessed life and nothing to say but that I'm thankful to God for the good gifts I've been given... through no particular deservedness of my own.

Like I said, tfs, you clarified your first response with your second response... and it became obvious to me that I totally misread your initial reply.  It's a moot point now.  My hackles are laid back down.  ::laughs::

Thanks Douglas.  I had no intent to hurt anyone, though I knew I was walking along the edge of a delicate subject.  Part of my makeup is that I go out of my way to smash political correctness boundaries when I can, because PC is turning the whole world into people who are afraid of stepping beyond the invisible boundaries that our "betters" think we should stay within.  The desire to find offense has become second nature with so many of us today that we clam up on any delicate subject for fear of reprisal.  Which is a terrible hindrance to honest communication.  People rarely feel free to say what they want to say or ask, especially around someone who may be deaf or blind or have some other situation which makes them different.

My wife won't even take me to her work functions any more because too often I have asked why there was an elephant in the room, or why the king had no clothes.    She knows now that I have awarded myself diplomatic immunity from the binds of political correctness... and quite frankly, it scares her. 

I had a whole post typed up and was ready to come down on tfs for not being educated enough about deaf culture.  I'm very glad that I didn't now, after seeing more replies to this thread, and seeing tfs subsequent posts.

You've indicated I've been somehow "bad" and then made up for it.  Is there something earlier on in this thread I shouldn't have said?