jdharm
11-06-2002, 10:04 AM
Just a couple useful little tips that I thought I would pass along. Though the following may sound like it, they are not paid advertisements or products of my friends, just usefull things I wanted to share.
I was looking for an easy way to put dynamic popup menus in an html page. Everything involved a lot of javascript programming that I wasn't comfortable with or bulky editors that I didn't want to have to use for just this one little thing. I found <a target="_blank" href=http://www.congreve.com/jjd/popMenu.html>THIS FREEWARE JAVA APPLET</a> that is compact, straightforward, and super-easy to configure for the novice. You will be inserting an object of any size (down to one pixel by one pixel) and color, defining what, if any, text you want displayed on the object, and when the user clicks it a hovering box pops up with whatever menu items you have defined for it.
The other tool comes in handy for posting in forums a lot, as I do. It is the . It is a toolbar for IE. It has a lot of features, but I personally have it trimmed down to nothing more than a box to type a word into. I type in a word in the box of the current IE window and hit enter and a new window opens with the definitions and variations, or a list of words that are close to what I was trying to spell. Note: opening the page in a new window rather than the current one is an option you will have to enable. In doing so you don't have to maually open a new window or risk losing your post that you just slaved over for half an hour when the current window goes to a new page. Very compact and handy. <a target="_blank" href=http://www.cpuaid.com/~jdharm/toolbar.jpg>HERE IS A SNAPSHOT (http://www.merriam-webster.com/tools/toolbar/>Merriam-Webster) of my IE window to demonstrate how it is neat and compact.
Josh
[i]Sorry folks, I'm an idiot. Moose out front shoulda told ya. [i]
I was looking for an easy way to put dynamic popup menus in an html page. Everything involved a lot of javascript programming that I wasn't comfortable with or bulky editors that I didn't want to have to use for just this one little thing. I found <a target="_blank" href=http://www.congreve.com/jjd/popMenu.html>THIS FREEWARE JAVA APPLET</a> that is compact, straightforward, and super-easy to configure for the novice. You will be inserting an object of any size (down to one pixel by one pixel) and color, defining what, if any, text you want displayed on the object, and when the user clicks it a hovering box pops up with whatever menu items you have defined for it.
The other tool comes in handy for posting in forums a lot, as I do. It is the . It is a toolbar for IE. It has a lot of features, but I personally have it trimmed down to nothing more than a box to type a word into. I type in a word in the box of the current IE window and hit enter and a new window opens with the definitions and variations, or a list of words that are close to what I was trying to spell. Note: opening the page in a new window rather than the current one is an option you will have to enable. In doing so you don't have to maually open a new window or risk losing your post that you just slaved over for half an hour when the current window goes to a new page. Very compact and handy. <a target="_blank" href=http://www.cpuaid.com/~jdharm/toolbar.jpg>HERE IS A SNAPSHOT (http://www.merriam-webster.com/tools/toolbar/>Merriam-Webster) of my IE window to demonstrate how it is neat and compact.
Josh
[i]Sorry folks, I'm an idiot. Moose out front shoulda told ya. [i]