RE: Can I make it look cooler?

Chris,

I've used DHTML and JavaScript to create a similar effect.  However, it only
works in Internet Explorer 4 upwards, so you might need to create a plain
HTML version for Netscape etc.

Check out http://www.collectiblecards.co.uk/ (please note that this is a new
site and still needs the creases ironing out).  The grey menu on the
left-hand side uses this kind of expanding/collapsing technique.  You will
need it to work on a much larger scale, but it's exactly the same principle.

The code will need some work in order to adapt it to your application.
E-mail me if you need help with it, or if you need me to explain what I've
done.

Tim


ps. The expanding/collapsing news reports is an excellent idea...mind if I
use it?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Chris Newmarker
> Sent: 01 February 2000 05:48
> To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject: Can I make it look cooler?
>
>
> I'm working for a professor at Ohio State who wants to design a better
> news website. He wants to scroll down a list of news leads with a link
> for "more" at the bottom of each lead. When a person clicks on the
> "more," the story should expand to its full length. At the same time,
> all of the other leads are still in a list above and below it. At the
> end of the story, there would be a link for "done," and when clicked,
> the list should shrink up again.
>
> I pretty much think that the easy (and sensible) way to do
> this would be
> to simply create a bunch of pages with the same template (the list of
> leads) and have them link all around. A person would click on
> the "more"
> link. New page; same thing, except the story the "more" was clicked on
> is full length. If possible, I would really like to do
> something cooler,
> though. Is there any way that I could make the expanding of the story
> seem a lot more automatic, an automatically expanding page?
> I'm probably
> trying to do too much, but it still seems like a cool idea.
>
> Chris Newmarker
> Lab Assistant
> Ohio State University
>
>

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