Your links will be easy to change.
1) CREATE YOUR LINKSCreate a new link using the site name as your link text. Use the URL style link.
Type in the url then
add: " title="your description here. to the link.
You must end your URL with a
" before you add your title code.
But DO NOT put a
" at the end of the title! CSB will do it for you.
This is how it looks in CSB4 or CSB5:
You can also just remove the tooltips.
Recommended:
Check out this page that shows details of the LINK and IMAGE tooltips. Test the samples (view page in both IE and FIREFOX).
Note that IE and FF use different rules but combined instructions resolves this issue:
IMAGE TOOLTIP: ALT TAG AND TITLE TAG
INTERNET EXPLORER uses the ALT tag for a TOOLTIP. CSB defaults to ALT tag.
FIREFOX uses the TITLE tag for a TOOLTIP, even on photos!
SO USE THEM BOTH for best effect! You can use them with or without a link.
Define the name of the image and your photo description.
As for COOL FACTOR, you can use something like
OVERLIB (change color, font, background, etc) of the tooltip but I would would think just using the title tag noted above would resolve your issue.
2) COLOR SETTINGS.After you have your links in place, deal with the color settings.
You are using CSB 5 so you have TONS of options that other CSB versions offered.
Take a look at this page:
http://www.samisite.com/csb5demo/link_colors.htm for screen prints and instructions
You have MANY choices for how to display your links and what settings to use.
(Samples Note: Click the menu along the side of that page and others in that directory. You can see/test the way the menu links look. Each page in that directory has the same menu, but is using different techniques that CSB5 offers.)
- The NEW TEMPLATES page shows how the FONT color can change on rollover. I like this. Clean simple and no background color is used. CSB4 has rollover but forces user to have background color.
- On the COLORS page, the BACKGROUND color of the link changes.
- On the LINK COLORS page, the BACKGROUND color of the link
and the FONT color changes.
- PHOTO WIZARD and PROBLEMS pages show you that CSB will let you turn off your underline on rollover but that will not remove the underline on the links.
On some of the samples, I adjusted the font to change to italics on rollover. You can choose to do that or not.
3) NO UNDERLINE
If you want NO LINKS UNDERLINED on the whole page, then you can use this code at the top of the page:
<STYLE>
<!--
A:link, A:visited, A:active
{ text-decoration: none }
A:hover
{ color: #CC0066; text-decoration: none }
U {text-decoration: none}
-->
</STYLE>That code works well in IE and FIREFOX.
Result of that code can be seen on my test index page here. I used CSB to change the link colors on rollover like normal and checked the box for no underline on rollover too...
Did not address any other suggestions for improvements on that or other pages.... not enough time....
But will ask....Have you considered making an interactive map?
Rollover and you get info, or spots linked to other websites?
I have a sample linked image map implemented in CSB on this page.
