Creating Rollovers


A rollover effect is a simple but effective way to help visitors to your Web site know what to do there. You can add rollovers to hyperlinks , so that the text changes font or color when pointed to; you can add rollovers to pictures, so that captions pop up over the image when the user positions the mouse pointer above it; and you can add rollovers that display additional buttons , rotate, or cause some other action to occur.

Lingo  

A rollover is the name of a special effect that causes a button, link, or image to change when the visitor positions the mouse on the object.

To create a rollover in FrontPage, follow these steps:

  1. Begin with the page open in the FrontPage window. Make sure that Design view is selected.

  2. Right-click the page area; then choose Page Properties from the shortcut menu.

  3. In the Page Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.

    Note  

    You cannot apply rollover effects to a site that uses themes, so if you selected a theme when you created your site (as we did in Chapter 19, First, the Basics ), rollovers won t be available to you. You can either create a new page with no theme or remove the theme from your existing site by choosing Theme from the Format menu, selecting (No Theme) in the Theme list, and then clicking OK.

  4. Click the Enable Hyperlinks Rollover Effects check box; and then click Rollover Style to display a Font dialog box, where you can make the changes the rollover will display (as shown in Figure 20-5 on the following page).

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    Figure 20-5: Use the Font dialog box to add a rollover effect to a hyperlink, to make the link stand out when the visitor points to it.

  5. After you make your changes, click OK; then click OK again in the Page Properties dialog box to return to your Web page.

  6. Now click Preview to see how the rollover effect works when you point to links on the page.

    Note  

    You don t have to change these settings to create an eye-catching rollover; using a simple color change, and perhaps adding an effect also works.




Faster Smarter Microsoft Office System
Faster Smarter Microsoft Office System -- 2003 Edition
ISBN: 0735619212
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 238

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