Roll Over Menu ? ? ?

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I am new to FP (2003) and I am trying to create a roll over menu to pop out of an animated button (or icon). The web page is for a school, so when someone rolls the mouse over "For Parents", I want a menu appear directly below the words "For Parents" with options such as: "Schedule, PTA, Staff Bios" etc. all in decending order. Then a parent can click on the link and go to that page. Can anyone help me discover how to create this with out using HTML? I have looked everywhere in the program and on-line I can think of. Thank yo
James
 
I'm not sure how you plan to do this without getting your
feet a little wet in HTML. Here are two links that could
help you:

http://javascript.internet.com/navigation/

http://javascript.internet.com/navigation/cascade-menu.html

The first link lists many potential sources, and the
second one is more specific. I suppose there may be a web
site out there that could manufacture a menu for you --
this would be most helpful -- but I know of no such site.
Such a site would spit out some JavaScript code, and then
you could insert it into your site (as an HTML snippet).
You could probably avoid going into HTML this way -- I
dunno. There is also software that can create menus.

I suggest getting to know just a tad bit of HTML -- you'd
be surprised at how little you need to know just to "get
by". I couldn't create an entire page in HTML, but I
certainly know how to find my way. It's so simple to
learn the basics, it just makes no sense to avoid it.
FrontPage color-codes the HTML, which makes reading it a
thousand times easier.

And personally speaking, I wish SVG or some other format
would replace HTML (for most web documents) because HTML
is so limited and "boxy". Flash is a cool replacement,
but too much of a pain to generate and edit.

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I am new to FP (2003) and I am trying to create a roll
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over menu to pop out of an animated button (or icon). The
web page is for a school, so when someone rolls the mouse
over "For Parents", I want a menu appear directly below
the words "For Parents" with options such as: "Schedule,
PTA, Staff Bios" etc. all in decending order. Then a
parent can click on the link and go to that page. Can
anyone help me discover how to create this with out using
HTML? I have looked everywhere in the program and on-line
I can think of. Thank you
 
Thanks for you response. I have been trying to avoid HTML just because I lack the time but maybe I can enlist a parent at the school better versed than I to help out. Or, like you suggested, learn a bit myself. I will check out the sites
Thanks again.
 
If time is short, simply learn to read the basics of HTML -
- you don't have to learn how to program it. I have very
little time myself, but I learned a good amount in a short
time. A lot can be learned just by pouring over the code
of just about any web page.

Once you've learned a little bit, you'll find yourself
able to do more neat stuff with web pages. I actually
learned a little bit of JavaScript, but I guess it helped
by the fact that I know how to program from other
languages.
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Thanks for you response. I have been trying to avoid
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HTML just because I lack the time but maybe I can enlist a
parent at the school better versed than I to help out.
Or, like you suggested, learn a bit myself. I will check
out the sites.
 
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