How do I convert hover buttons to regular buttons?
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From: Roveer on 25 Jul 2008 15:44 I'm trying to de-javascript a website since many computers dont' get java installed and we've had reports of broken button links from some of our visitors. Unfortunately our previous webmaster designed the site with over 100 hover buttons. The main navigation menu system was hover buttons but I was able to turn that off in the Styles. It now displays correctly on "non java" computers. Now I've got 80 buttons that are just basically simple hyperlinks that are hover buttons. I know I can just insert a regular button, but the canned buttons that come with FP 2003 are not in the style of our buttons. Is there a way to use the buttons from the "horizontal navigation" from my style? Those are exactly what I want. I can't seem to figure out how to insert that kind of button. I also need to put a label inside the button. I originally tried copying the "style" button and then inserting it as a picture and putting a hyperlink to it. It works but then I have no easy way to label it unless I put it into a graphics editor and put the label in manually. This would be very hard to do since I have 80 of them. Any help would be appreciated. Roveer
From: Thomas A. Rowe on 25 Jul 2008 16:10 First Java and JavaScript are two different technologies. FP2003 doesn't use Java for navigation. JavaScript is what is being used and is supported by default in all current PC based browsers. If you provide a link to your site and indicate any specific pages with link that users are having a problem with, some one make be able to help you solve the problem. -- ============================================== Thomas A. Rowe Microsoft MVP - FrontPage http://www.Ecom-Data.com ============================================== "Roveer" <roveer(a)erols.com> wrote in message news:c1beccc2-68a7-48a0-b1cb-e34c27bee377(a)j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > I'm trying to de-javascript a website since many computers dont' get > java installed and we've had reports of broken button links from some > of our visitors. Unfortunately our previous webmaster designed the > site with over 100 hover buttons. The main navigation menu system was > hover buttons but I was able to turn that off in the Styles. It now > displays correctly on "non java" computers. Now I've got 80 buttons > that are just basically simple hyperlinks that are hover buttons. I > know I can just insert a regular button, but the canned buttons that > come with FP 2003 are not in the style of our buttons. > > Is there a way to use the buttons from the "horizontal navigation" > from my style? Those are exactly what I want. I can't seem to figure > out how to insert that kind of button. I also need to put a label > inside the button. I originally tried copying the "style" button and > then inserting it as a picture and putting a hyperlink to it. It > works but then I have no easy way to label it unless I put it into a > graphics editor and put the label in manually. This would be very > hard to do since I have 80 of them. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Roveer > >
From: Roveer on 25 Jul 2008 16:56 I'd rather not post the website link in a newsgroup Here's an example of what I'm dealing with: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j196/roveer/webexample.jpg Those buttons that you see are presently "hover buttons" and don't display correctly (actually don't display at all) on PC's that don't have a JVM installed. If I'm not mistaken that's every PC that has XP & Vista that is sold retail? That's a lot of PC's. What I'd like to do is to continue to use the exact same button look (colors & dimensions) but just make them interactive buttons instead. I'm not concerned about hover color changes or click color changes although I see IB's can do that. Problem is, from what I can see IB's only give you what FP's makes available (about 20 or 30 different buttons none of which matches my color. Is there a way to customize an interactive button to use my colors? Or, I'm looking at just inserting a picture of my button and making a hyperlink. Problem is I have no good way to put the label in the button. Trying to use MS paint gives me a low quality button. I'm sure this is all easy enought, but I'm not very experienced with FP so I'm having trouble figuring it out. Seems kind of strange that MS makes use of JS with hover buttons but then does not support it in their OS. Am I wrong here? Roveer
From: Tom [Pepper] Willett on 25 Jul 2008 17:14 Due to a lawsuit a few years ago, MS can no longer provide java. Old news. You might want to do some Googling on it. Some computers now ship with Sun Java installed. However, many users don't use it, because it's deemed by many as a security risk. -- Tom [Pepper] Willett Microsoft MVP - FrontPage "You're a daisy if you do!" --- FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/ === : Seems kind of strange that MS makes use of JS with hover buttons but : then does not support it in their OS. Am I wrong here? : : Roveer
From: Thomas A. Rowe on 25 Jul 2008 18:05
At no time has MS ever use the Java Hover Button applet to create a slideshow, etc. Which version of FP did you use to create this slideshow? Can you email me the link via my site below? -- ============================================== Thomas A. Rowe Microsoft MVP - FrontPage http://www.Ecom-Data.com ============================================== "Roveer" <roveer(a)erols.com> wrote in message news:63409dd9-1897-40bd-8233-9eb67fbe7143(a)m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > > I'd rather not post the website link in a newsgroup > > Here's an example of what I'm dealing with: > > http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j196/roveer/webexample.jpg > > Those buttons that you see are presently "hover buttons" and don't > display correctly (actually don't display at all) on PC's that don't > have a JVM installed. If I'm not mistaken that's every PC that has XP > & Vista that is sold retail? That's a lot of PC's. > > What I'd like to do is to continue to use the exact same button look > (colors & dimensions) but just make them interactive buttons instead. > I'm not concerned about hover color changes or click color changes > although I see IB's can do that. Problem is, from what I can see IB's > only give you what FP's makes available (about 20 or 30 different > buttons none of which matches my color. Is there a way to customize > an interactive button to use my colors? Or, I'm looking at just > inserting a picture of my button and making a hyperlink. Problem is I > have no good way to put the label in the button. Trying to use MS > paint gives me a low quality button. I'm sure this is all easy > enought, but I'm not very experienced with FP so I'm having trouble > figuring it out. > > Seems kind of strange that MS makes use of JS with hover buttons but > then does not support it in their OS. Am I wrong here? > > Roveer |