shadowayex Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Ok, if you go to http://www.ford.com/ there's 5 things that when you move the mouse over them, a little box comes down. I wanted to try this but upon looking at the source, I found a mess of things that I can't decipher. I try finding it on other sites, but other sites that do have similar options...once again a mess of code I can't decipher. Can someone tell me how to do that or anything similar? I think it'd be a cool thing to learn and implement in my experiments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FirefoxRocks Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Try looking at the code on some of the examples on this page: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/They use CSS, not JavaScript, but it is worth looking at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 You won't find that in the source code, that's done in flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 Would you recommend learning flash and adding it to my page, or using CSS instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Javascript could do similar, but it really would take much more work than to do it in flash. And to make a full page as dynamic as theirs you really do need flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 Should I master JavaScript and PHP before going on to Flash (I have knowledge of both, but not 100% know-how). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 There are advantages and disadvantages for both HTML/JS/PHP and Flash. HTML with SS and DHTML will load faster, but you cannot get the same graphic complexity as Flash. However, Flash files load slow and search engines have a harder time indexing Flash pages. So... yes, I would suggest learning HTML/JS/PHP first, but it is up to you. You can also have Flash components in HTML pages, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Ok, well, I'll stick to the JS and PHP then. I'm pretty far along in learning them anyways. Any other suggestions on what to learn? I know (X)HTML, CSS (in styling means, not like the drop down menus and that really advanced stuff), and I've dived into some PHP and JS. Other than that, I don't really know much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Keep learning PHP. There is a lot there to learn. The same with Javascript. If you think you know everything that Javascript can do, take a look at the code for ExtJS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Keep learning PHP. There is a lot there to learn. The same with Javascript. If you think you know everything that Javascript can do, take a look at the code for ExtJS.Thank you, I'll keep plugging away at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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