Remote rollovers

[Thrill Media]

Hey, I am building a photography site for my wife. She would like to have
about 15 thumbnails which display the corresponding picture on each page. I
looked up "remote rollovers" but got no good info. Is there a tutorial
anywhere on building your own remote rollovers in FP? Still a newbie BTW,
not a coder.
Thanks,
Curtis

 

[Peter_G]

I do not know the answer to your question (actually, I am not sure I
understand what you are asking to be able to do) but did you try to Google
remote mouseover? This produces some interesting results.

HTH

Peter

 

[Thrill Media]

Thanks Peter, but a google search shows me how to do it in every other
program but FP. This is a standard action that occurs on most every web page
in some form or another. On my wife's web page I simply want to have 15 or
so thumbnails to the right side of the page and then when you click on one of
the thumbnails I would like for that image to display on the left side of the
page. Click a different thumbnail and the different corresponding image
replaces he previous. And so on...

Maybe someone knows of a tut for FP?

Thanks,
Curtis

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

This is really not a standard feature or action on most web sites. Most web sites use JavaScript to
replace a image with another image in the same location on the page (mouse overs).

The issue with using JavaScript to load a image in another location on a page is that you have the
space allocated for the image at all times.

As a option, and this would be were frames or an IFrame would be an advantage over JavaScript, is to
place the thumbnails in a left frame and then link them to a page with the large image that would
load in the right frame, this page could contain additional text about the image, as well.

A better option if available, would be to use a database to manage the image and to dynamically
display images, this has the advantage of only needing a single page for display all images.

Here is an example:
http://www.ycoln-resources.com/resources/scripts/default.asp#script9

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[Linda R]

I'm pretty sure I've read that you can do Show/Hide layers in Front
Page. That would allow you to create a disjoint rollover anywhere on the
page without having to have space specially allotted to it.

Linda Rathgeber

 

[Ronx]

For FP2003 see http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/rollover.htm
However, using this, or simlar, technique for 15 full size images will
give the page a very high download time. Thomas' suggestion of frames
or Iframe to display the large image is a better choice.

 

[Thrill Media]

Thanks Thomas!
I am trying to avoid frames at this point. I did like the database idea but
I see that I need other MS stuff on my server to make this happen. I don't
think that is going to be possible as it is a linux based server.
Thanks, I appreciate the input.
Curtis

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

PHP and MySQL could be used as well.

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[Thrill Media]

Ronx,
I am trying this technique to get my remote mouse downs to switch out images
within my gallery. One thing I don't understand is when I have "Image2" (the
large image, not the thumbnail) in the gallery, and then I add "Image3" (the
next large image) into the gallery, FP just shoves the image into the area
next to the previous image. Is there a way to turn off "Image2" when I
insert "Image3"? I am changing out 25 images on this page and want to be
sure that I am doing this correctly before I get to the end.
Does that make sense? If not I can postsome images to my site for better
clarification.
Thanks again,
Curtis

 

[Trevor L.]

Thrill Media,

I have been doing similar things recently and there have been posts in this
NG on the topic.

Answers from Murray have been very helpful. He in fact has a testsite where
he has 4 thumbs down the side. Click on any one and you open the larger
image in a box (actually a layer or fixed <div>) in the centre of the page.
The site is: http://www.murraytestsite.com/slideshow.htm I am sure he
wouldn't mind if you had a look - he posted the address on this newsgroup.

I now have something set up on my website. Go to page "Picture Album", and
click on any thumb. A larger image opens in a separate page, which is not
the requirement you set out. However, if you click on a Slideshow button,
then on the next page you then see (inter alia) a series of numbered
buttons. Clicking on one of these opens a picture on the same page.
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Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au


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[Thrill Media]

Thanks Trevor!
I will take a look.
Curtis

 

[Thrill Media]

Woo Hoo!!! That did it! I finally figured it out thanks to your help(and
others as well). I do appreciate your link.
Thanks again,
Curtis