Most BASIC Dreamweaver CS3 website question!!!

topcatproduction

topcatproduction

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Edit My Images
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This is driving me mad- how on earth do you make it so when you stop your cursor over an image, a small text box with a short image description/image name pops up?

Have spent ages googling it and all I get is bloody rollover image results- this must be SO simple but everything I try makes no difference in preview!
 
I am only using Dreamweaver 8 but under properties (for the button/image) in the 'Alt' box, type the text you want to appear when the mouse hovers over the button/image.

Not sure if it still works like that on newer versions though.

Chris
 
use the title tag as well as alt

IE renders this wrongly so lots of people got lazy and used it for the wrong purpose.
details here
 
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topcatproduction said:
How do you add a title tag once the pics are already there?
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you mean in dreamweaver? if so not sure.

You can simple add it to the code though
From
Code: 
<img src="images/IMG_1208pps.jpg" alt="4.0 V8 test build" width="180" height="120" border="0" />
To
Code: 
<img src="images/IMG_1208pps.jpg" alt="4.0 V8 test build" title="4.0 V8 test build" width="180" height="120" border="0" />

For each Image
 
:clap: all working.
No problems, but when coding google really is your friend (quicker than waiting for a bunch of togs (y))
 
janbokev said:
In Dreaweaver 8 you can use the rollover image function but don't select a second image and use the Alt text line to list the text you require .

may be this would explain better
http://www.teacherclick.com/dreamweaver8/t_6_2.htm
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would you just leave the 2nd img box blank in that case? Actually I'm being lazy and should just be experimenting! The CSS stuff is hard to get the hang of, never been tought so trying to learn by doing, but some of it is just impossible to make sense of!

edit- by the way- without shooting me down too much what do you think of the site in general? I'm a steel worker/driver/grubby hand person most of the time so trying to do a bit of everything is a bit of a compromise as this web building lark is time consuming! Just not tested it on any other computers with small screens or really big ones et yet to see if the layout stays ok :confused:
 
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I tend to use code all the time , but you could put the same picture in the second box so you dont get errors and it will look like the picture has not changed , and will not take anymore space on your site , just a cheat short cut :p if I can't be bothered doing the code
 
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