Website forms in dreamweaver

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

www.merrimack.org They don't come up at the same time.

Your easiest option is to take all those buttons, merge them into a JPEG, and then use text links arranged with divs.

[Liquid Snake]

OK so merge the buttons and make the hotspots in dreamweaver. There is only one flaw with that idea. Eventually we may want to make the buttons interactive...like maybe we'll want to have the color change when the mouse is over the button. What I'm saying is that this could be a temporary solution. It would be best if we could still make them interactable if and when we wanted to.

Also, how can I add the drop down menus to hotspots in dreamweaver?

Nevermind, I see that you can do all of the above in dreamweaver. Thanks.

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

OK so merge the buttons and make the hotspots in dreamweaver. There is only one flaw with that idea. Eventually we may want to make the buttons interactive...like maybe we'll want to have the color change when the mouse is over the button. What I'm saying is that this could be a temporary solution. It would be best if we could still make them interactable if and when we wanted to.

Also, how can I add the drop down menus to hotspots in dreamweaver?

Nevermind, I see that you can do all of the above in dreamweaver. Thanks.

Since Dreamweaver was made part of Studio 8, all the stuff for hotspots has been moved to Fireworks.

Also, I did not mean hotspots which rely on javascript. What I mean is to make 1 single image that will represent a button, then use that as the background image for a div. That div will have the link, which is a text link. It's very simple, and if you need to add interactivity later you'll be able to do so without wasting as much bandwidth transferring each individual image. That's how the menus on the joomla default template roughly work(with the exception they use tables, if I'm not mistaken)

[Liquid Snake]

You're right, but I was able to make hotspots and drop down menus within dreamweaver. I had no idea you could make an image a div. I assumed divs were strictly layers.

[Skyler]

From what I understand of what he's saying, you set the image as the div's background- not make the image a div in its own right.

[Liquid Snake]

If you try to highlight(select) text in something other than internet explorer you'll see that sometimes the text won't be highlighted. It also highlights the graphic behind it, how can I fix this?

[Liquid Snake]

If you highlight the text in www.merrimack.org , the entire page becomes highlighted. How can I make it only highlight the text?

[Skyler]

Hmm... maybe you should make the pictures look like they're there, but really aren't. Like an optical illusion.

Don't ask me how.

[Liquid Snake]

I've never seen this problem before. Do you think it could be because I use layers?

[Liquid Snake]

I tried changing the position options in css. It was originally set to absolute, but when I changed it to inherent, fixed, and static, I was able to highlight the text without any problem, but now it won't allow me to overlap layers or position them where I want even.