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I changed the front page of my website, adding some rollover images. You should see "S.L. Farrell", "Stephen Leigh", and "Matthew Farrell" just below the farrellworlds banner; if you mouse over the names, images of related book covers should appear below (you can also click on the rollover images to go to the various 'author' areas.)
It works perfectly in Safari on my Macintosh, but doesn't seem to function in Firefox, which only gives me a strange text rollover with no images appearing below the names. If you run a Windows machine using IE, Firefox, and/or Safari, or a Linux box, I'd appreciate knowing if the rollovers appear or not... It may be I'll need to adjust something, or go back to the old homepage entirely if I can't get the rollovers to function in enough browsers and OS's.
Let me know what you see! Thanks.
EDITED TO ADD: I changed the rollover images from .tiff to .jpg files, and now it works in both Safari and Firefox. I assume this may have fixed the issue with all browsers. It, of course, doesn't answer the question of whether I should have any rollovers at all... :-)
It works perfectly in Safari on my Macintosh, but doesn't seem to function in Firefox, which only gives me a strange text rollover with no images appearing below the names. If you run a Windows machine using IE, Firefox, and/or Safari, or a Linux box, I'd appreciate knowing if the rollovers appear or not... It may be I'll need to adjust something, or go back to the old homepage entirely if I can't get the rollovers to function in enough browsers and OS's.
Let me know what you see! Thanks.
EDITED TO ADD: I changed the rollover images from .tiff to .jpg files, and now it works in both Safari and Firefox. I assume this may have fixed the issue with all browsers. It, of course, doesn't answer the question of whether I should have any rollovers at all... :-)
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Works fine in Safari.
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IE8 - frame with X in upper left corner, no pictures
Firefox - no images at all, just AltText, frame flashes briefly when mouse moves
Safari - works as you described.
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Windows, Safari: piles of books show up below names with rollover. (Rollover below the authors' names shows them, not just on the name area.)
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Now, what you didn't ask: I hate rollovers, because they appear when I'm only moving the mouse from place to place and didn't mean for anything to happen until I clicked to make it happen. The rollovers in your page seem to disappear as soon as I move the mouse off them and they don't cover up anything but a blank space, so they're not as bad as most rollovers; but they also appear when I move the mouse into what seems to be open space, not onto a rollover-trigger. So they evoke the "AUGH! DID NOT WANT! GO AWAY!" response.
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I still hate rollovers, but yours are designed not to obscure any text or hang around when they're not wanted.
I have a particular hate on for rollovers right now because the Detroit Free Press web site has rollover ads that trigger a red alert from McAfee Site Adviser, and I can't seem to move the mouse anywhere on the page without setting it off.
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I'm with you on rollovers that obscure text or portions of a page -- that annoys the hell out of me (it's almost as bad as pop-up windows) -- and that's why I deliberately designed the page so the graphics don't cover up anything and go away as soon as the mouse leaves the rollover area.
I'll leave it that way for a bit...
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