Hover buttons on my website

[Cheri]

I have spent the last several months building a website
with Front Page. I have used the hover button feature
for my navigation buttons. I happened to use my
brother's computer to look at my website and I was
distressed to see that none of the buttons loaded and I
could not navigate through the site at all. Only gray
areas showed up where the buttons were.

My questions: Does this happen on a lot of computers?
Should I eliminate the hover buttons and just go to
simple text to use for navigation so that most people
will be able to use the site?

My website is at: www.coloradorestaurantmenus.com

Thanks!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

This happens on any computer that doesn't have the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed. Now many
users of Windows XP, IE6 and NS6 and up no longer have the JVM, so it is best not to use any Java
applets, instead use JavaScript.

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[Joe Rohn]

Hi Cheri,

If the Java is not installed/enabled on a viewing computer, hover buttons
will not be seen (They are actually what is called Java Applets)

You would be better off using images that can be moused over to change using
JavaScript, plain text, or plain images.

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[Jack Brewster]

Cheri,

The Hover buttons require a visitor's computer to have a Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) installed to interpret the code behind them. Although
Microsoft used to distribute a JVM with Windows, ensuring that hover buttons
would pretty much work everywhere, due to legal disagreements with Sun over
Java, they've has stopped distributing a JVM with Windows.

This means that you can't be assured that your hover buttons will work which
means it's bad practice to use them.

If you want to have a rollover type of effect for your links, take a look at
JavaScript (No relation, other than name similarity) solutions. There are
tons of free scripts out there that you don't have to be a programming
genius to use. Here's a code generator that you may find useful:
http://javascript.internet.com/generators/preload-images.html

I also understand that FP2003's new behaviors include a rollover effect, but
I don't use those features so I'm not 100% sure about that.

Good luck!