simple rollover button questions?

[DGTLguy]

Two questions...

1. can buttons have transparent areas? (e.g. i want the background to show through.) I tried saving photoshop doc as a PNG but it automatically gives it a white background...

2. can i overlap rollover buttons?

go to

http://www.home.cinci.rr.com/jshellow.com

to see the buttons

on right. Buttons don't work, just for reference. Each

Square Represents a button and I eventually want the Square to glow when you rollover it.

 

[DGTLguy]

Wrong URL... copy link here >>

home.cinci.rr.com/jshellow

 

[luds]

In Fireworks, to get the image to be transparent, you set the the transparency to 'Alpha', instead of 'Index'... never used Photoshop though.
If you can get it to work with gifs that might be better though as png files aren't as well supported.

Can't see any reason why you can't overlap.. although the bits of buttons that are underneath other buttons won't be active. Have never personally done it in DW.. but suspect it could be possible using layers and absolute positioning.

Why not do it in Flash as your site is going to be a Flash site?

luds

 

[DGTLguy]

i thought about Flash but i want nonFlash users to be able to see the buttons... seeing as how its the index page and the buttons lead to the flash download and other info...

but i've decided to go another route with the buttons...

thanks anyway though

 

[j118]

Go to Photoshop and save For Web. Save the image as a Gif file and it should come out transparent. Hope this helps.

 

[jamesmills]

i would say do what j118 said!
just save it as a gif in photoshop

you could overlap using layers but i really dont see the point because anything that is overlapped will not work as a link?

 

[lebisol]

in PS:
Help--Export transparent image
or

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inimr/photo601/photo6_trans.html

or as suggested:

http://www.jessett.com/web_sites/graphics/photoshop/transparent_bg.shtml

All the best!

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