ok, i'm working on somethign for my site, and i need some help.

basically, i have maps of all the elections leading back to 1960. i want to make it so that i can have them all on one page, and have something at the bottom with the year, and when people put the mouse (or even click), that map (gif images) will come up.

i have NO IDEA how to do this. what would the easiest way be?

I am not completally sure what you want, but I am sure you could solve this by one of 2 methods. First you could have a link that opens a popup, and in that popup have the gif image open up. Now I understand that popups can be extremly irritating even if they are not adveratisments, so the other option is to use flash. I am not to familiar with flash but If you made a flash page this could be easily done. Hope my suggestions help good luck sir!

Take a look at the photos on this page:
http://www.dvatalent.com/profile.php?id=125

Is that something like what you want? If so, you can do that fairly easily. Here's what I used on that site:

First, you have to have a main image placeholder. First you have to name that image:

<IMG NAME="pic" SRC="img_source.jpg">

Then you can change that image on click with document.images in your link. Whether you use an image:

<A HREF="#" onClick="window.document.images['pic'].src='pic_source1.jpg'; return false;"><IMG SRC="pic_source_thumb1.jpg"></A>

Or, text link:

<A HREF="#" onClick="window.document.images['pic'].src='pic_source1.jpg'; return false;">Pic 1</A>

Here's what that stuff means:

window. refers to the actual browser window
document. refers to the current document in the window
images refers to the image elements in the document
['pic'] calls the image element you named "pic"
.src refers to the source or src of the image. <IMG SRC>

Of course, this will not work if javascript is turned off...

Hope this helps.

prissed - that seems good. two questions:

1.how do i make sure javascript is on?

2. is there any way for it to be text people click on to change hte picture rather than thumbnailed pictures?

Javascript is something that is on in the visitor's browser. There's nothing you can do to make sure it's on, really. But most people do have it turned on. Then there are people that have selective javascript turned off (like me), but I still allow images to be changed with javascript.

The last code snippet I posted uses a text link.

excellent, this worked perfectly. this is what i used it for: http://www.heartheissues.com/pastelections.html

thanks again.

Great!

OT: Wow...amazing...the electoral votes for both Nixon's, and Regan's second terms...dang! That's a lot of votes!