I am desiging a website using Dreamweaver and Flash. There are two things I am trying to learn how to do. The first is to get a menu to appear to the side of the button that I put a mouse over. You know when you put your mouse over an object and right beside that object is another list of options or choices appears. And the second thing I am trying to do is make it so when I click on a button, instead of going to a new page, a certain area on the page changes to the information that was requested by the click on the button.
If anyone knows of how or where I can find the info to do this, it would mean the world to me. Thank You.
When Designing a website, how do you get a certain portion of a webpage to change instead of going to a new?
For the first one you have to use the mouse over effects... and for the second one is easy when you use frames.
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When Designing a website, how do you get a certain portion of a webpage to change instead of going to a new?
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Ah, you are asking two questions in one which is going to be a rather long answer. Ask another question if you want the specifics, but here is the short answer:
1. Depending on your level in Flash, you can have the %26quot;further options%26quot; thing appear. You would need to know actionscript (Flash's programming language) in order to do this. If you want your page to be flash independent, you can use JavaScript to program that functionality in your webpage. Either option is not exactly the easiest thing to do. You can search on the web for some solutions. Depending on the type of sub-menu, you could probably do something with CSS. Dreamweaver can assist you in all of this programming, but you would have to write the logic yourself.
2. Again, you can use Javascript. This is going to be easier to program than the submenu as all you have to do is dictate which area of text you are referring to. This option would only require your server to send the file once. However, if you can do server-side manipulation of clicks, then you can not send all the information all at once (a lot of the times, this is advised, esp. if you are running some sort of site where you need to keep track of what the user clicked).
Another thing to keep in mind is that if the user of your site disables JavaScript, you have to use server-side programming (using PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, ASP.Net, etc.) to do this.
Well, this is where I leave you.
Good luck!
