The Webmistress — Sat, 02 Jun 2001 15:21:13 +0000

It works fine for me with IE5.

I don't really use sound all that much unless required to do so by clients when doing flash stuff, so can't really help you much more.

totally different subject

disaster-master — Sat, 02 Jun 2001 14:46:27 +0000

This is a totally different subject but can someone tell me why the midi file that is the background sound on the intro page won't play on some computers? I used Swish (my first try) to do this page and was unable to figure out how to imcorporate the midi in with the swf file so I just put it as bgsound. I don't think you can do midis with Swish...not sure. Anyway, what might the problem be?

http://www.friendshipfd.org

Thanks,
disaster master

The Webmistress — Thu, 31 May 2001 08:57:11 +0000

They all work & none disappear. Looks good!

disaster-master — Thu, 31 May 2001 08:53:29 +0000

OK.....finished! What do ya'll think? YEA or NEA?

I noticed that the first image that says, "Intro" disapears when you scroll down and then come back up? It is doing this with anyone else???

disaster-master

disaster-master — Thu, 31 May 2001 04:16:37 +0000

Thanks! Can't believe they finally work! :jump:

I have fixed the alt tags, height/width and added the 'a' tags. I just didn't worry about all that until I made sure the darn rollovers were gonna work. Also shortened the file path. Now I am creating some new images....something that will stand out better and also line up the text on the buttons that Busy pointed out to me. I didn't even notice that. I just learned a new trick in PSP that will fix that though.

Rest assured, I will holler back at you guys when I finish the new images.

Thanks again,
dm

TheGizmoid — Thu, 31 May 2001 03:33:50 +0000

It's working in NS 4.6 for me now! Yay!

But Busy makes some very good points. If you use height/width tags, the browser knows exactly how much space to set aside for the image and can continue downloading. Otherwise, it has to wait for the image to load to know what size it is.

"Alt" tags will also make your site accessible to the visually-impaired using a text reader. Remember that search engines can't index the text in a graphic. "Alt" tags give you an excellent opportunity to reinforce keywords on your site as well.

Busy — Thu, 31 May 2001 01:12:08 +0000

The images show up now. but you really should use the width and height tags in your img (image) tags, it will also help load it a lil faster. Also you need to use alt's in the tags, if the images didnt show up no one would know where they go, so always use alt tags on images.

The way the images are set up now is hard to read, the brighter ones would be better as the first ones, and the dull ones as the ones when mouse goes over. or different color text/buttons.

Some of the text on the buttons is lined up, others arent when you mouse over them, could be an effect I suppose as it is the middle ones that line up.

There are free programs, downloadable or ones used on the web that will produce the mouseover code for you, 2 and 3 button mouseovers. but nothing bets learning how to do them yourself

just noticed, you have no </a> tags on your mouseover links. you should also take off the complete path to your graphics, it takes a while to load in netscape, removing the url will spend it up. without the url the browser knows its in the directory and to look for them there, if you have the complete url, the browser thinks it is another place so goes out of that directory, then back in over and over until all the images load. the images are in your main directory so just the image name is needed.

none of the links work with the buttons, i think you just missed off the .html, from the links at the bottom show

disaster-master — Thu, 31 May 2001 00:16:55 +0000

OK...yet another rollover script. Geeze!!
This one 'seems' to be working.

Also, on the rollover image. Do you think that there needs to be a less dramatic change in the image appearance when you mouse over it??? This is my fist shot at making my own rollover images and I think that I may have gone a little overboard. The mouseover image looks a little bigger. What do ya'll think? Maybe I could tone the change in appearance down a bit.

Thanks,
disaster-master

disaster-master — Wed, 30 May 2001 16:13:23 +0000

I know that I probably should have posted this in the "Web Page Authoring" section since it pertains to JS but I will just continue here.

TO:Karen
I tried the file path that you suggested and the images disapeared on me too. I was able to view them online with my browser before I changed them....anyway...

I went with a different rollover script that I found and still can't get it to work. Could someone put their genius mind to work on this and tell me what I may be doing wrong?
I have tried several different combinations of file paths. Here is where I got the script from if you want to take a look at it.
http://www.m-design-studio.com/other/tutorials/tutorial4a.html

and here is the link to my page with the rollovers(or wanna be rollovers)
http://www.friendshipfd.org/testroll.html

Thanks in advance!
disaster-master

KarenArt — Wed, 30 May 2001 13:04:44 +0000

Hi d. Master,

Your only problem seems to be that the browser can't find your images. In your code where it is displaying the images, replace the
file:///C|/FriendshipFD/on1.gif to
http://www.friendshipfd.org/on1.gif imediately following the onMouseOver
plus change your img src="file:///C|/FriendshipFD/off1.gif to http://www.friendshipfd.org/off1.gif

Do this for each roll over button and... Voila! it'll work.

I like the layout you have going.
Nice... Clean, simple with interesting pictures and nothing spinning or dancing on you....
what I look for in a site.

I'll look again when the nav bar is fixed.
Thanks.
Karen