Help creating rollovers/imageswap to quicktimes

Question

I want to create a portion of my website that has a cell with
a background image with a collection of rollovers and each rollover
links to a quicktime movie that I want either to load in a new
window or in a new table. As far as I can tell I have a couple of
options.
One is create the main image with the rollovers and find out
how to have the rollovers link to new browser window. The reason I
say find out is because I have tried to do this in the past and in
my limited html/js knowledge have not had much luck in figuring it
out.
Another version of the first idea is to use swap image
instead of rollovers for the main image and then have the image
swaps link to new window quicktime movies. Please forgive my
ignorance in this matter as I have not done any swap image work
either.
The other option seems to be to use frames. I have never
created a frame based page, as simple as I am sure it is, it seems
like not a bad idea to use frames, having one frame as the image
with multiple rollovers and another frame as the target area for
displaying the quicktimes movies. The more I think about it the
more I like this idea, but as I said, I have never made a frame
based page and was hoping to get some guidance before I start out.
Any help or pointers to tutorials wound be greatly
appreciated.
Henry

Answer 1

> The other option seems to be to use frames. I have never
created a frame
> based
> page, as simple as I am sure it is, it seems like not a
bad idea to use
> frames,
> having one frame as the image with multiple rollovers
and another frame as
> the
> target area for displaying the quicktimes movies. The
more I think about
> it the
> more I like this idea, but as I said, I have never made
a frame based page
> and
> was hoping to get some guidance before I start out.
The reason for using or not using frames should be based on
a) your site's
needs, and b) your willingness to accept the potential
problems that frames
can create for you as developer and maintainer of the site
and for your
visitors as casual users of the site.
I am down on frames because I believe that they create many
more problems
than they solve.
Judging from the posts here, and the kinds of problems that
are described,
the kind of person most likely to elect to use frames is also
the kind of
person most likely ill-prepared fo solve the ensuing problems
when they
arise. If you feel a) that you understand the problems and b)
that you are
prepared to handle them when they occur, and c) that you have
a need to use
frames, then by all means use them.
As far as I know, the most comprehensive discussions of
frames and their
potential problems can be found on these two links -
http://apptools.com/rants/framesevil.php
http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/frames/
To accomplish what you want you can either use the Set Text
behavior of
DWCS3 to 'dynamically' write the links to the QT movies into
a named element
somewhere on the page (like this page does with static images
http://dreamweaverresources.com/tutorials/settextoflayer.htm),
or you can
use an IFRAME on the page. You can find out how to use the
latter with
Google.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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"Hank uses DW" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I want to create a portion of my website that has a cell
with a background
> image with a collection of rollovers and each rollover
links to a
> quicktime
> movie that I want either to load in a new window or in a
new table. As far
> as I
> can tell I have a couple of options.
>
> One is create the main image with the rollovers and find
out how to have
> the
> rollovers link to new browser window. The reason I say
find out is because
> I
> have tried to do this in the past and in my limited
html/js knowledge have
> not
> had much luck in figuring it out.
>
> Another version of the first idea is to use swap image
instead of
> rollovers
> for the main image and then have the image swaps link to
new window
> quicktime
> movies. Please forgive my ignorance in this matter as I
have not done any
> swap
> image work either.
>
> The other option seems to be to use frames. I have never
created a frame
> based
> page, as simple as I am sure it is, it seems like not a
bad idea to use
> frames,
> having one frame as the image with multiple rollovers
and another frame as
> the
> target area for displaying the quicktimes movies. The
more I think about
> it the
> more I like this idea, but as I said, I have never made
a frame based page
> and
> was hoping to get some guidance before I start out.
>
> Any help or pointers to tutorials wound be greatly
appreciated.
>
> Henry
>