Help! Coursework due in 2 days need expert advice!

[Gonzza]

Hello all, I'm doing a website project - however I've hit a snag, I'm quite an amature at dreamweaver, but have an idea - so here's what I want,


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This is what I want when no images are rolled over. As you can see I have 5 dvd pics , I want to turn them in to buttons and when rolled over in the 2nd colum I want my image to appear like this:

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not just that when clicked i want to link to a different page

I want to do the excat same thing with these 4 other images when fools gold is rolled over for example it will do excatly the same thing except there will be a different headline in the 2nd colum

is this even possible or is there a way if so tell me in detail!
(and in english! )

[Gonzza]

Can anyone please tell me if this is possible or not?

[corneo]

are the stars for ranking or looks?

[Gonzza]

ranking

[corneo]

To be honest. If you don't know php very well, your not going to have this up in 2 days.

You can get a php star ranking program (there are thousands out there for free)

Make your first image with black on the bottom. Make the second image (same as the first ) and add the star ranking program to it.

To get the images close together like you have it, you will have to do this all in php. Really flash would be much easier.

Maybe somebody knows a better way.

[Gonzza]

yea I know thanks for the info but I'm really doing this website all manualy at the moment, (just so I get my mark for college) but wil be looking at this as a possible nice money earner website so will probably do as you said I will be using more complex methods for my website soon.

However as my first post says do you know how I would make a button rollover happen on a different image?

[Sean@WMS]

I wish I had more time to help you with your educational project, but I just finally got time to get back on this forum, and it's too late to help you with specifics.

However, you can accomplish most of what you are looking to do via JavaScript in several ways.

The big issue is you star rating system, which will require querrying a database to find the rating value.

In the old days the could be done by populating an array of data on the fly into your JavaScript such that you could show the stars on the client side on mouseover without a post back to the server, but these days AJAX would be more appropriate for the same effect.