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Davthalas

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Hey,

I've been trying to create a navigation menu for a website but its not working out. I want it so that when the mouse hovers over one of the words on the menu, then the relevant content will appear below.

Can anyone please take a look for me? I tried finding something to help me on adobe.com but any of the info relating to anything similar was all in actionscript 2 and since i have Flash CS3 that doesn't help me at all.

http://www.davidcarroll.5gbfree.com/help!.fla

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http://www.davidcarroll.5gbfree.com/help!.swf

Thanks
 
Forbairt

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If its simple enough fades and so on I'd just recommend using javascript ...

flash is inaccessible to most search engines ...
 
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TheMenace

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As Forbairt says, you'd be better off using XHTML and JavaScript for something like this. Particularly if it's a navigation menu, as you'll want Google to crawl the site easily.

If you have to do it in Flash, I would recommend getting to grips with the basics of movie clips and how to jump from frame to frame using button events. These are the bare-bones basics of Flash and shouldn't take you long to figure out. If you're using CS3, then you can revert to actionscript 2 if you need to.
 
Forbairt

Forbairt

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I'm not entirely sure how google handles javascript links ... but its nice to be able to add in <noscript> code as well ... potentially with the links contained there
 
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Davthalas

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Thanks for the info, only thing is i'm using a combination of Illustrator, Photoshop and Dreamweaver and i'm not 100% how well javascript would integrate, plus i don't know it :p
 
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louie

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you can try using dhtml menu with a bit of javascript and css, and there are plenty examples around to get you started.

Also you can try the ajax way.
Both are a lot more SE friendly if done right and look good also.
 
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