Hello there everyone, as you can tell I'm new to these forums. I may become a regular, I tried another forum previously which yielded no results for several days now and I'm not impressed by them. My main focus is not web design, I'm more of a techy/gamer so there are many limitations to my knowledge in this area so please excuse any ignorance I may show. I did this website completely in photoshop, sliced it, and imported it into Dreamweaver. The code for the dropdown boxes in the navigation bar are code I took from a website, I believe the specifics of where I got it may be creditted in the code. I got everything basically how I need it and I do believe it's compatible with the majority of browsers. I had it planned out due to the IFrame window I'm using being too small to actually input a lot of large images/information all at once to thumbnail the images and use code to make them expand to fullview, preferably with a next/previous button ( gallery type display ). After I finished and got to actually working on the gallery/thumbnails I came across the though of "how am I going to make this leave my IFrame?" So basically I need a way to make the popup or w/e for my image use the full browser instead of the tiny IFrame that it's trapped in currently. For an example of what I was attempting you can visit the link below and click on "Services" Http://www.orangecountyirrigation.com Any opinions/suggestions for how I can better improve my skills are welcome aswell. Also any opinions on how the site looks for what it's for, the person I made it for told me Black & Orange, but told me to add blue in later. It is as you see, for a Landscaping/Irrigation business he is starting.
An HTML element within an iFRAME cannot leave the boundaries of that iFRAME just like images (or any other element [excluding plugins]) on any page cannot hop out and cover your browser tabs. This is due to security issue amongst other things. Other Options: -Determine a clever way to convince the top page to resize the iFRAME to full size on cue so that the element can enlarge with the iFRAME. -Don't use an iFRAME and put everything directly on the top page. Use CSS to get the same single page tabs effect.
Well thank you for that tidbit of information, I suppose I will just create a individual gallery page popup then.
Why are you using an iFrame? There are many other options for what you're doing there. I'm a huge fan of <div>'s. Maybe try replacing the iframe with some div's, and make the thumbnails divs and increase their margins until they fit how you've got the current thumbnails. I'm not a great scripter, but one of my goals is to always find the most sufficient, and easy way to get the job done.
Well I'm not a scripter at all really, I know how to manage whats already there and make changes. The site looks right in every browser i've tried so far, so I don't want to make too much of a change, and when I tried using DIV I could've replicate the way I wanted everything. So I'll manage with what I have, as long as the guy I'm making it for is happy.
Alright good. One thing that I could personally recommend is setting up a subdomain for him, and maybe downloading Gallery2 and installing it on the subdomain. I've found the Gallery application to be very useful and easy to manage, as well as give a professional feel for an image gallery. P.S. PM me if you run into anymore troubles while making the site. I'll be glad to help!
Hello, Please visit the following sites to see if any of these will do what you are searching for: Lightbox - http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ Thickbox - http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ Colorbox - http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/ sIFR - http://novemberborn.net/sifr3 Hope this helps!!! CoffeeCup.com
Thanks again Piggy for the suggestion, I added you to my MSN & AIM. I'm Alex btw. Coffeecup none of those do what I wanted originally so I'm going a different route.