Re: How do I create mouse overs for web documents?

Dear DavidF
I have half completed your suggestion and it works a treat. On my front page
www.whitebay.co.nz I have relinked the logo and pictures and put in
mouseovers (hurray). The links go to the exiting pictures publisher uploaded
to the server. By the way I had to delete the measurements,as this cropped
the photo.
The code I used is as follows:
<IMG SRC="http://www.whitebay.co.nz/index_files/image1078.jpg"; ALT="Front
view of Whitebay World of Lavender in the peak of summer">
I did tweak the sky (bluer) and the picture is a LITTLE bit clearer. I will
look at putting in a revamped picture (courtesy of Photoshop) as my next
project and post the results. I am not unhappy with what I have and wonder
if a clearer picture will be more size and thus slower loading?
Many thanks David.

Max Patmoy



"DavidF" <Nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23yu2$rA$FHA.4028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Max,
>
> I remembered a similar post to yours, and after looking for it realized it
> was a post from you:
> Best Pictures 11/19/05. In that thread both David Bartosik and I attempted
> to answer your questions about both the Alt Tag, and how to get the best
> pictures to display on your site. Since then, and since answering this
> post,
> I have done some testing, and have come up with a workaround for perhaps
> both your issues.
>
> From my testing I have found that the Alt Tag feature does work in Pub
> 2000,
> but is broken for some reason in Pub 2003. On your site,
> www.whitebay.co.nz
> you can see that you have added the alt tags to your images as they load
> in
> IE (plenty of time to see when you are using a dial up connection).
> However
> after loading and on mouseover, the tags do not work. Also the images that
> do load are a bit blurred and lacking in definition.
>
> To get better images, and to get the alt tags to work in Pub 2003 requires
> a
> bit of work and as David B. said, perhaps having the alt tags are really
> not
> that important, so you might decide it isn't worth it. If you do, here is
> a
> way.
>
> Instead of embedding your images, you need to import then into your site
> using the insert html code fragment feature. Here is an article by David
> Bartosik that describes the process...just ignore the reference to Pub
> 2000.
> http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=84
>
> Here is an example of the code snippet you would insert into your Pub doc
> for each image:
>
> <IMG SRC="http://www.whitebay.co.nz/images/yourimage.jpg"; ALT="Whatever
> you
> want the alt tag to say" border="0" width="120" height="60">
>
> For this to work properly, I have assumed that you will create a folder on
> your site called 'images'. You will optimize and size your images in your
> image editing software before you upload them to your 'images' folder, and
> change the width and height within the code snippet to the size of your
> images. You will change 'yourimage.jpg' to whatever you name your image,
> along with the extension. You will change the Alt text to whatever you
> want
> to read on mouseover describing the image. As per the border, if you
> change
> 0 to 1, 2 etc, you do get a border, but I do not know enough about coding
> to
> tell you how to apply a specific color to that border, so perhaps go to
> www.htmlgoodies.com and learn it there...or accept what you get, or don't
> use a border to keep this process as simple as possible. You'll also have
> to
> play around with the size and placement of your code fragment box, and I
> can't guarantee that you will get things to line up correctly. However,
> you
> will get your alt tag to work, and you will probably get a better quality
> representation of your original image than what you get through embedding
> the image in the Pub page. And....be sure to try this on a test page
> before
> you start changing your whole site. It works for me, but it might not work
> for you....back up, back up, back up.
>
> Please post back with your results. There was another post today asking
> about alt tags, and perhaps your testing could help that poster, and I
> would
> like the feedback. Thanks.
>
> DavidF
>
>
> "Max Patmoy" <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OYcTsGp#FHA.916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Dear David F,
>>
>> Once again we are given mouse over code too complicated for our needs.
> What
>> we require is a code to allow a simple rectangular box with a written
>> message to appear when a mouse goes over a picture or text. For example
>> if
>> we had a picture of a dog the mouseover effect would produce a
>> rectangular
>> box with a message live "Our dog Fred". No extra colours, no differing
>> effects, just a message.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Max Patmoy
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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