Easier way to create circle div than using an image?

Try this

.iphonebadge {
  border-radius:99px;
 -moz-border-radius:99px;
 -webkit-border-radius:99px;
  background:red;
  color:#fff;
  border:3px #fff solid;
  background-color: #e7676d;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#e7676d), to(#b7070a)); /* Saf4+, Chrome */
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #e7676d, #b7070a); /* Chrome 10+, Saf5.1+, iOS 5+ */
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #e7676d, #b7070a); /* FF3.6 */
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #e7676d, #b7070a); /* IE10 */
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #e7676d, #b7070a); /* Opera 11.10+ */
  background-image: linear-gradient(top, #e7676d, #b7070a);
  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#e7676d', EndColorStr='#b7070a'); 
 -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 2px 4px #000000; /* Saf3-4 */
 -moz-box-shadow: 0px 2px 4px #000000; /* FF3.5 - 3.6 */
  box-shadow: 0px 2px 4px #000000; /* Opera 10.5, IE9, FF4+, Chrome 10+ */
  display:inline-block;
  padding:2px 2px 2px 2px ;
  margin:3px;
  font-family:arial;
  font-weight:bold;
   }

Here's a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/JJytE/1170/

CSS:

.circleBase {
    border-radius: 50%;
    behavior: url(PIE.htc); /* remove if you don't care about IE8 */
}

.type1 {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    background: yellow;
    border: 3px solid red;
}
.type2 {
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    background: #ccc;
    border: 3px solid #000;
}
.type3 {
    width: 500px;
    height: 500px;
    background: aqua;
    border: 30px solid blue;
}

HTML:

<div class="circleBase type1"></div>

<div class="circleBase type2"></div><div class="circleBase type2"></div>

<div class="circleBase type3"></div>

To make this work in IE8 and older, you must download and use CSS3 PIE. My demo above won't work in IE8, but that's only because jsFiddle doesn't host PIE.htc.

My demo looks like this:

Setting the border-radius of each side of an element to 50% will create the circle display at any size:

.circle {
  border-radius: 50%;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px; 
  /* width and height can be anything, as long as they're equal */
}

It is actually possible.

See: CSS Tip: How to Make Circles Without Images. See demo.

But be warned, It has serious disadvantages in terms of compatibility basically, you are making a cat bark.

See it working here

As you will see you just have to set up the height and width to half the border-radius

Good luck!