Fate of Io
Website Development Question
2006/04/24 14:28:05 PDT by TerraTwilight [0/1]

Hey everybody,

I was wondering if anyone here knew enough about web programming or deveopment to help me with understanding how to create a pop-up menu, like the kind that you see on many of the more upscale, perhaps even professional, websites which are featured in their main menu. I think this is done with Javascript, but I know there must be an easy way to do it using the tools that I have, I just haven't found it yet. I'm hoping someone here can help me, since I know there's some clearly brilliant people around here working on the game, and it's also clear that at least some of them also have incredible talent with web design and programming, since this website as a whole is elegant and spot-on.

I use Dreamweaver 8, but I'm familar with basic HTML in its pure language form as well, so I won't need to be taught how to do this as a complete novice.

This is not one of those emergency type of situations, so I'm not exactly in a hurry to get this done. It's not like I need to put this new feature up on the site by a certain deadline or anything, but I do think that the sooner I learn how to do this, the better off the site will be.

Thanks for reading this, and I hope someone responds soon.

2006/04/24 19:19:24 PDT by Temporal [manager]
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Quote from TerraTwilight:

it's also clear that at least some of them also have incredible talent with web design and programming, since this website as a whole is elegant and spot-on.

Well, I guess that'd be me. Thanks. :)

Unfortunately I don't know if I can be much help. I do know how to create a pop-up menu, but it's more complicated than it sounds. In addition to HTML, you will need to understand CSS and JavaScript. Specifically, what you want to do is create an HTML element with absolute positioning (via CSS), but start out giving it the CSS property "display: none". Then, use JavaScript to detect when the mouse hovers over it, and switch it to be visible at that moment. If that doesn't make sense... well, you have to learn CSS and JavaScript.

On the other hand, you can probably find pre-packaged solutions on the web, but I can't really help you with that.

BTW, this project and web site, despite all the good design, has been dead for awhile now. I should really put a note somewhere saying that...

2006/05/02 12:08:27 PDT by TerraTwilight [0/1]

Thanks for the reply, Temporal. I think I might have chosen to depict myself as a little less knowledgeable with web programming than I actually am in my first post, so I'm not entirely lost when it comes to CSS or Javascript, but anyway, the point is that I did understand a lot of what you said, and in addition to that, I will take your suggestion and start searching for a tutorial on how to do this, because you're right, I do know that they're out there. Everything's out on the web. Anway, thanks again!

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