Rookie CS3 Button Question,

Hello all,
I'm fairly new to encore and got a project dropped in my lap today a work. I'm sure this is simple ,but I don't know exactly what to search for. so here we go:
I have a complete .PSD file that the client wants to use as a menu. The buttons have three versions: 1. Original state, as you would see it on the screen. 2. Highlighted, what you would see if you move the cursor over the button and 3. Selected, the button will highlight when you push play/enter.
My question is how do I set these layers in the menu to react with the cursor properly?
I only have two buttons on the menu (play and Scene select) and three versions of each button (mentioned above) built in as layers in the PSD. and i have no idea how to set the links/hierarchy.
any help/guidance/tut links would be appreciated. they seemed to have misplaced the manuals, so I've gotta rule that out for now.....

The beauty to using Stanley's suggestion of starting with one of the Templates, is that the Button Layer Sets and the necessary naming conventions will be there for you, already. Saves a lot of mistakes and extra work.
Make special note of the Button Layer and Layer Sets' naming. Those initial characters are VERY important, as the take a regular, Layered PSD and turn it into a functioning Menu in Encore.
I will Rename those Layers & Layer Sets, AFTER the space (leaving those necessary characters in place), to match up with my Timelines, or other Assets. Then, rather than trying to remember that "Button 1" one Scene Selection Menu 3 links to "Liz's Birthday," I will see the name, "Liz's Birthday."
I also name my Timelines, usually from" 01 Intro," to "0x Whatever," so I can easily see the order, and then use those names (after the space). I find that a little extra work initially, saves me a lot of extra work and confusion, later on.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - I also highly recommend Jeff Bellune's book, The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe EncoreDVD 2.0, Focal Press. Though written for EncoreDVD 2.0, 100% of the book translates directly to CS3 & CS4.

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James Roller1 wrote:
So let me get this straight about layered menus... especially in my case: the final background document needs to be complete before I begin adding buttons or building the project, and any additional layers added will throw off any work done. Correct?
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Any help on this matter is greatly appriciated. This is
probably a stupid question but it is driving me nuts.
I was updating my site in dreamweaver and I added a bunch of
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I didn't know what place was the correct place to post, so I
posted in 2 fourms.

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> Any help on this matter is greatly appriciated. This is
probably a stupid
> question but it is driving me nuts.
>
> I was updating my site in dreamweaver and I added a
bunch of flash
> buttons.(slider type) When I upload the site to my
server , you have to
> click
> each button one time before the flash starts working. If
I remember
> correctly,
> when I first started adding buttons, the properties at
the bottom had 2
> check
> boxes on the left hand side to continouisly play the
flash. I do not have
> those
> check boxes now. I opened the buttons in flash and
everything works fine
> in
> flash. If I hit the play button(in properties) the flash
will work
> correctly
> until you preview in browser.
>
> I'm an amatuer at best with this stuff so any help at
all would be
> extremly
> appreciated. You can see what I mean on my web site. It
is
> www.brtguitarsllc.com
>
> I didn't know what place was the correct place to post,
so I posted in 2
> fourms.
>

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