Re: Can I make it look cooler?

You can use DHTML to change the "z index" of the containers....gonna get
kinda big, though, if there's a hundred news stories today.

Also requires JavaScript and a 4.x or better graphical browser.

You can also do alot of stuff with CGI to dynamically serve the page,
but the only way to manipulate it locally would be DHTML (that I can
think of offhand...).

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Newmarker" <newmarker.1(at)osu.edu>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:48 AM
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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