okay, i started eating up somebody else''s flight sim thread with talk about web development, and decided to put it in an independent thread. how do you get cool menus? what i mean by cool menus are those images that like, when you hover over them, a submenu pops up, and then you can click those which link to other sites? i think that''s the coolest thing. =) someone said dhtml. do you need anything special for dhtml, or is it just an extension of the html tags or something, or what? (i haven''t started web development yet, but i''m starting soon. okay, i''m too lazy to look it up myself, and i am not about to ask jeeves. i''m sure you guys would wanna answer a dumb newbie web developer question anyway. ) thanks, guys. a2k

DHTML is an awesome extension to HTML, but is a microsoft only technology. For a demonstration of what''s possible with DHTML and IE5+ visit http://www.webos.org/

MSDN Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame.htm?/workshop/author/Default.asp

epolevne

You can make menus similar to what you are talking about using style sheets (CSS) and java-script. I don''t know how to do it myself because I dont like style sheets, but a friend of mine has created a menu system using them.

- Daniel
VG Games

DHTML is nota Microsoft only technology, but Microsoft is trying to make it one.

DHTML is easy to learn once you learn HTML and java-script.

there are lots of good tutorials on the net, but sincerely making web pages is boring....
Also Internet Explorer and NetScape are different, and the code that might look right on IE might not look right on NetScape.
I GOT SICK of making my code cross browser compatible.

anyways good luck...





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I don''t mind your eating up my thread...

But I suggest you start simple with your web, and add features as it develops. You can always replace any page with more complex code, and just getting a simple page up initially is an adventure. For "how it works" view any page via menu bar View->Source and ferret thru the code...

Actually, the best way to make menus like that is by using *java-script*. The DHTML extensions are just methods like whenclickedon="" or overonmouse="". They are a way of making HTML look more like a programming language. All that combined together with Cold Fusion or PHP or ASP, gives you one hell of a platform to work with to create all sorts of cool effects like those menus and many others.




Cyberdrek
Headhunter Soft
DLC Multimedia

Hey it''s not to hard with practice. Here is some information on how to set it up. First learn HTML 4.0, CSS, & java-script. They are all a must when planning to do advanced features.

Here is how you can do a sample menu. Just draw a table with One Row and start with 2 columns. And then have a Hidden DIV using CSS styles which holds another table which is the menu items. Have it hidden and have the bottom of it touching the fbottom of the table with MENU caption. On mouseover of the Menu Caption have it first become unhidden and then run it through a loop to have it redraw the div at a location at 1 pixel down. Have the location of the DIV set by a variable which you will constantly change. Then have variable to keep it up while the mouse is on the Caption or Items. Then when mouseout have it draw -1 pixel and then when reached the original position go hidden again. Pretty easy. Give it a try. And the crossbrowser is the PAIN in the @$$. But just get the browsers object and determine from there how to implement using an IF statement. If you need soem help feel free to EMail me. Later.

If you want to learn DHTML (and the java-script and CSS that go with it), a good place is www.webmonkey.com
That's where I learned most of the things I know about web development. It has a lot of tutorials that are good for starting out, and a few intermediate subjects.

Start out simple, though. It helps if you are profecient in HTML first, then learn CSS, then java-script, and then put them all together.

Edited by - ghem4 on August 7, 2000 10:54:31 AM