Mouse over button actions for newbie

Im a Newbie. Im creating buttons that when you mouse over show an image. Id like the images to remain up when the cursor leaves the button until the cursor mouses over another button, see http://www.rawnarch.com/featured_williams_college.html
any advice on how to do this simply

The simplest fix is to change the DOCTYPE.
You're using a XHTML Transitional DOCTYPE.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
If you replace it with a HTML5 DOCTYPE
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
you'll eliminate most of those "errors".
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You're using a XHTML Transitional DOCTYPE.
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http://bit.ly/fEEVZk

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I'm new to Dreamweaver and I am using a Mac as well.
I was wondering how to make my menus on my webpage have submenus
attached to it as the mouse goes over the menu name. My menus are
just simple words I've typed in. I would rather not make a whole
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Check the uberlink and MacFly tutorials at PVII -
http://www.projectseven.com/
and the Navbar tutorial/articles at Thierry's place
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/
Or this one (more recent article):
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp
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http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
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Hi, Had to work yesterday.
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Thank you for the reply. Button 1 does not have glowing effect, whereas Button 2 has a glowing effect. So what I wanted is that when initially Button 1 is loaded during page load, when I mouse over Button 1, Button 1 would fade out and Button 2 sitting behind Button 1 would automatically look like fade in(due to gradual fad out of Button 1 on top of Button 2).
I could do this now, and would like to Thank you for your reply.
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