Navigation bar does not work properly in CS3

Question

The navigation bar shows only the up and the over pictures in
all browsers. It works properly in a framed site, showing all 4
different pictures. But not in the css-layout based site with files
from the same template, which show all in the same window. Does
anyone know where this problem comes from?

Answer 1

> Why not use frames again?
This question is answered in detail several times a day here,
but here's the
executive summary -
1. They are difficult for inexperienced users to get right -
a) pages will not align properly if one of them throws
scrollbars
b) links will not work when targeted into different frames
without
hand-modification of code
c) new (and inexperienced users) have problems with the idea
of a single
frameset page that only specifies constituent frames
d) new (and inexperienced users) can be confused by the fact
that the
<title> tag on the frameset page is the one that
appears in the browser
e) etc., etc., etc.
2. They are difficult for your visitors
a) depending on how savvy you are, you may have removed
scrollbars to
'fix' #1b, not thinking that you have also removed those
scrollbars for
people with smaller viewports
b) search engines will index *all* pages within your
frameset, meaning
that a navigation frame or a content only page MAY be shown
in a search hit
list - imagine the confusion when the page is loaded without
navigation, for
example
And - they are so amateur. Really.
> it doesn't
> matter if I use javascript or CSS rollovers, only up and
over will work
> with
> refreshed pages.
With js rollovers it's only *easy* to achieve the up and the
over states.
With CSS rollovers, you can achieve up, over, over while
down, and down.
> Lots of the CS3 manual obviously refers to those
> "oldfashened" stuff.
Much of this has been removed in CS4.
> The paid diva comes in to do the job down and over by
down in
> both cases.
The DivaHTML extension is a good deal. It is just a CSS
rollover with an
'easy' user interface.
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"quilterin" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Thanks again! I will look at the code. So if I
understand right, it
> doesn't
> matter if I use javascript or CSS rollovers, only up and
over will work
> with
> refreshed pages. The paid diva comes in to do the job
down and over by
> down in
> both cases.
> Why not use frames again? Is it just out of fashion? Or
are there
> substantial
> reasons against it? Lots of the CS3 manual obviously
refers to those
> "oldfashened" stuff.
>