How can I add a Rollover images or Rollover buttons to my iWeb created site?

What is an image rollover? When you put the mouse pointer over the image (hover) the image changes. It’s pretty easy to have this kind of mouseover effect.

All you need to do is copy and paste the following code into an HTML Snippet:

<a href='Destination URL' target="_top"

onmouseover="document.sub_but.src='http://yourdomain.com/onroll.jpg'"

onmouseout="document.sub_but.src='http://yourdomain.com/normal.jpg'">

<img src= 'http://yourdomain.com/normal.jpg' width="281" height="55" border="0" alt="Move your mouse over me" name="sub_but">

</a>

And change the parameters in red.

- Destination URL: is the URL you want the button to link to

- target=”_top” opens the link in the same window. If you want it to open in a new window replace _top with _blank

- http://yourdomain.com/onroll.jpg is the url of the image that displays when someone points the mouse over it

- http://yourdomain.com/normal.jpg is the url of the image displaying when the mouse isn’t over it (note that you need to insert it twice in the code)

- Change width and height to fit your case

That’s it.

Example (move your mouse over it):

How do I know what the url of the image is in my case?

Putting the image on your iDisk (MobileMe)

1. Create a folder in your iDisk/Web/Sites folder.

2. Name it something like 'files' or ‘media’ or whatever

3. Copy your .jpg or any other image file to that folder

4. http://web.me.com/username/nameofthefolder/nameofthefile.extension is the address at which the file will be stored on the web

Example: http://web.me.com/username/media/nameofthefile.jpg

On non-MobileMe server (publishing to another hosting)

1. Create a new folder in the folder you publish your website to from iWeb

2. Name this new folder something like 'files' or ‘media’ or whatever

3. Copy your .jpg or any other image file to that folder

4. Upload the folder to your server using your FTP application

5. http://yourdomain.com/nameofthefolder/nameofthefile.extension is the address at which the file will be stored on the web

Example: http://yourdomain.com/media/nameofthefile.jpg

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