Pictures for a restaurant menu

[zebra1057]

Hello,

I'm making a memu for a restaurant. I'd like to have a picture pop out beside the chosen item. The pictures have a
separate html page of their own so they don't have to be pre-loaded. The pictures are 10-15k each but they are too
many that's why I chose to give them a separate html page for each.

My problem is that when I click on an item, the new browser
window (blank target is chosen to make it a small window)
lands in the top of the page. This covers us the logo and
nav bars.

It would be better if the small pop-out window open up beside the chosen item.

so far I haven't seen any feature to tell DW where to open the new window.

Thank you in advance on how to approach this situation.

roland

 

[Cassien]

A better way of doing it might be using roll-over images... so that when you roll the mouse over an item it changes the image to be one with the chosen item.

This should be fairly seemless as the images will load with the page. It will also solve the problem of having windows all over the place, and no one likes pop-ups!

hope that helps

 

[TECHMAN007]

I can see that you don't want to have a long load time by indicating that you didn't set it up for onload preload images (This appears to be what Cassien (no offense intended) is telling you to do, because as we all know having roll-overs without pre-loading is not that seamless).

Have you tried using layers at all yet? More then likely there is not going to be an easy way of having images pop up next to something without having them preloaded (having blank windows with new html files open onclick isn't really a great choice mainly because of different display settings and if your page is absolutely sized it probably wont look that great for at least 50% of your target audience.

Give a few more details about what your trying to do and I will help as much as I can (i.e. dpi size of images etc).

 

[zebra1057]

Hello Cassien and Techman007,

Thank you for your fast response which are enlightening.
I just talked to my cleint and he just wants me to put more
entree menu without the pictures.

Nevertheless, I think it is a good discussion on how to tell
the newly opened browser window where to pop up. Although it
looks like this feature isn't currently supported by DW.

Thanks again,

roland

 

[bluranj]

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