Composer Help - Inserting Buttons

Inserting Buttons

Buttons are another form of link - they give the user something to push/click on. They can be very basic with just a caption or image on them or can change as the users mouse rolls-over them - Rollovers.

To use a basic button you will either need to construct you own using a graphic package or find one off a PC mag cover disk or off the net.

First insert your button image - same as inserting an image

Click on the newly inserted button then click on the Link button in the toolbar, or open the Insert menu and choose Link.

Then use the Link Properties dialog box to link the image to a named anchor or heading within the page, or to a separate local or remote page

If you don't or can't remember how to insert a link go to Links in the top menu or click here

Click on the button to see it work.

 

During this course you will hear people talking about Rollovers - the bad news is that these cannot be inserted into Composer without some pain. The following is a rollover button - just run the mouse over it an see the image change.

This is a two stage rollover there are 4 stage one as well. Unfortunately to use these types of buttons you either need an editor that can insert them for you, be able to do some coding or use a third party program that will take your images for the button and generate the necessary code for you to paste into the document( you need to paste into the actual HTML not the page as you are viewing now). The code for this button follows and you will see the problem for yourself.

The code for this looks like:<P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="#" ONMOUSEOUT="MM_swapImgRestore()" ONMOUSEOVER="MM_swapImage('Image4','','../../rollovers/top_dn.gif',1)"