Create own custom Internet Explorer toolbars with this freeware application.

Custom IE toolbar is a great way to promote website, provide visitors with extra options for searching and online/offline browsing, simplify navigation and drive more traffic. After astounding success of Google and Alexa toolbars, thousands of search engines, e-commerce, news and portal sites are starting to follow their lead by offering their visitors own custom toolbars for Internet Explorer.

Toolbar Designer 2.0 is the first freeware toolbar-making tool that allows any person without programming experience to create own toolbars. With Toolbar Designer, any toolbar can be created by using simple “point-and-click” and “drag’n’drop” techniques. The program comes with a comprehensive collection of buttons, boxes (search, password, etc), drop-down menus and other toolbar elements. Custom images and elements can be inserted, too. Average toolbar is created in just 10 minutes. Here are some possible applications for Toolbar Designer:

- Multi search engine search toolbars
- E-commerce toolbars that can retrieve all the stock items and
display them as a set of navigation menus on the toolbar
- Corporate toolbars that let employees use all the services of
Intranet systems
- MP3 and video search toolbars
- Stock quotes and currency exchange toolbars

Version 2.0 introduces the revolutionary feature of instant toolbar compilation directly from the application. You can also build a distributable installation package by just clicking a single button.

Toolbar Designer 2.0 is a freeware, distributed electronically over the Internet. For an additional fee Toolbar Designer Software can add a number of features into a custom toolbar:

- Visual Basic and JScript scripting support
- Auto-updating option which replaces old toolbars with new ones
automatically. This is an essential feature, since most websites get
updated/modified several times a year
- IE skins and custom background color
- Custom toolbar objects, such as news ticker, drop-down mini-page
- Menus and submenus can be created from the output of server side
scripts (like PHP, Perl CGI or ASP)
- Ability to search on different search engines
- Signing toolbar code with a Digital Certificate
- Toolbar configuration menu
- Search words highlighting on the HTML page
- Pop-up blocker and page zoom controls
- Cookie and history cleaning options


Toolbar Design Software also specializes in other types of Internet Explorer and shell extensions:
- Deskbars. Deskbar is a toolbar that is located on the Windows
taskbar
- Horizontal and Vertical Panels for Internet Explorer
- Browser Helper Objects: non-visual extensions for Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox toolbars

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