I was playing around with this 80x15 generator today:
http://www.graphicsguru.com/button.phpand made a few Rad buttons:
My design skills seem to be limited to trying something and seeing if I like it .. or fixing what I don't like.
Fun stuff, anyway. There's a lot of stuff online that lets you make a lot a cool things .. especially buttons .. even using gradients, and also CSS menu-buttons .. for the top/side of web pages. Just plug in your variables (button color, text color, button size, etc) and click the button to generate the code.
I think the 80x15 format is a standard button size for the web .. at least one of them.
Despite any design skillz, I am starting to become comfortable with a number of gfx-oriented programs.