I did a search and couldn't find anything on this...maybe if y'all know of a thread covering this, point me in the right direction. Anyway, I'm working on my site and am putting in a pop-up menu as well as flash movies...slideshows really. Anyway, all this is mainly for the photography section of the site, but whether if the menu is made in Dreamweaver or another program, the containers open under the Flash object/movie and cannot be displayed or selected. You can see what I mean by hovering over "Photos" in the left-side menu:

http://www.mikecnichols.com/bwgallery2.html

Any help on this would be great...thanks!

Mike C. Nichols

I'm an idiot and should have googled in the first place...problem fixed!

Mike C. Nichols

Mike thats a nice looking site. Did you customize your pop-up menu using dreamweaver's pop-up menu creator? Also what did you use to create the background? Looks very cool

Thank you, you're so kind. Yes, that is a Dreamweaver menu...just easier for now, though I HATE how it gets coded. When I do a full menu, I'll probably use a separate DHTML program.

All the graphics were done in Adobe Photoshop CS (8.0) and then cut into slices and made into a table via Photoshop. There will be changes to the Menu buttons because it's too hard for one to read the words. Since I do not know how to code everything using CSS, this is how I'm working for now because I feel that it is the cleanest and easiest way to produce a site that has variable amounts of content and several different media content. I have used Layers in the past and like them to some extent, but feel that tables work much better with organization.

Thanks again!

Mike C. Nichols

Ive been spending alot of time with CSS and it's hard to grasp but at this point I am starting to see that the troubles I have gone through in learning CSS is going to be well worth it. I think tables are going to have there place in the future but I think eventually CSS will become alot more refined and will be the way to go.

I agree with you on that. I know a bit about CSS, I just haven't messed around using CSS to organize an entire website, so for my website, I wanted to do it in a way that I am very comfortable building and start from there. When I go to redesign it in a couple years, I'll probably use CSS by then. I definately feel CSS is the way to go, I just haven't had the time to teach myself and mess around with it. Believe me, I stayed clear of tables as long as I had too before last year, then I had to use them for work and found that for now, they are the cleanest form of code I can easily manipulate as of now.

Mike