Background and mouse-over

[Elly]

David and "analog",

Thank you both again, I am so grateful for the time that
you offer to help so freely, which one of you can I marry!
(oeps ... I am already married).

David, can you explain why you would advise against putting
stuff on the background and why against a menu as a
graphic, apart from reasons as my wanting an effect of the
hyperlink?

Elly

 

[David Bartosik MS MVP]

Well if you spent some time poring over the forum you'd be sure to find
numerous posts regarding random odd problems that in the end I resolve by
finding that the customer was using the background/master page.
And in tests I've done across the versions I've never had 100% accurate
results when implementing it in a web publication. Now when I've on occasion
asked MS about this I've been told that that function is designed for use on
print publications versus web publications. Though on one occasion I was
told by MS testing that they could not find a problem with using it. The
short answer to your question is that based on my experience it's best to
NOT use it.

In your case the graphic menu kept you from doing what you wanted. Of course
you had done that to do something else you wanted. Namely drop underlining
from the hyperlinks. That's an unnecessary workaround, the proper way to
implement that is thru a CSS snippet, which I provided on your page. I guess
my short answer would be, why do you need it to be graphical? If you want a
button based menu, then sure, it makes sense that it's a graphical menu. But
if you have a text menu, why make that complicated, leave text as text. Also
it's just one more thing to slow down page load time, Publisher has enough
images it's loading already. But if you've got a design decision that you
feel justifies it, well then do what you want.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

David:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...728"/^~sParams^~/sParams^~/CMTYDataSvcParams^

Syd aka Analog:
http://www.logwell.com/WRFN/index.html (Please note: I *think* this is Syd
and the photo is several years old.)

Take your pick ;-)

 

[Elly]

Mmmmmm ...... interesting. Thank you JoAnn.

-----Original Message-----
David:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...728"/^~sParams^~/sParams^~/CMTYDataSvcParams^

Syd aka Analog:
http://www.logwell.com/WRFN/index.html (Please note: I *think* this is Syd
and the photo is several years old.)

Take your pick ;-)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

David and "analog",

Thank you both again, I am so grateful for the time that
you offer to help so freely, which one of you can I marry!
(oeps ... I am already married).

David, can you explain why you would advise against putting
stuff on the background and why against a menu as a
graphic, apart from reasons as my wanting an effect of the
hyperlink?

Elly

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[JoAnn Paules]

Both men have their positive traits. I don't envy you your choice. ;-)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Mmmmmm ...... interesting. Thank you JoAnn.

-----Original Message-----
David:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...728"/^~sParams^~/sParams^~/CMTYDataSvcParams^

Syd aka Analog:
http://www.logwell.com/WRFN/index.html (Please note: I *think* this is Syd
and the photo is several years old.)

Take your pick ;-)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

David and "analog",

Thank you both again, I am so grateful for the time that
you offer to help so freely, which one of you can I marry!
(oeps ... I am already married).

David, can you explain why you would advise against putting
stuff on the background and why against a menu as a
graphic, apart from reasons as my wanting an effect of the
hyperlink?

Elly

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.745 / Virus Database: 497 - Release Date: 8/27/2004


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[analog]

Hahah, I am sorta taken at this time (and for the last 21 years). I am also
considerably older than David, I suspect. Beside, I lust after JoAnn (if she
ever tires of her hubby).

 

[analog]

Sorry, but my pic does not appear on that page. I was "Sterling Seat" in that
tale, the technical guy, Gripweed claims that pic at the bottom of the page
(back of the head shot) is actually me, but I am fairly certain he is mistaken
since I was also the resident photographer. But that was 35 years ago...

 

[JoAnn Paules]

HOT DIGGETY DAWG! I've got a man lusting after me! Take that all you other
women who lurk here! Ha ha ha!

Syd, you've soooooooooooo made my day! Now I can go to work with a smile on
my face. :-D

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Darn! I tried Goggling for you but couldn't find a photo with the name. Your
name is out there almost as much as mine.