Need help with Hypertext Links with HTML Coding

[glowingbutterfly77]

My website is called Creative Collectibles and more. Its a crafts store type thing and what I am trying to do is to have the user be able to click on the link such as sewing crafts corner and when they do that have it come up with sub links like wall hangings or pillows. I am not sure how to go about doing that. Any help I could get would be appreciated.

Helene
Glowingbutterfly77

[shadmego]

I'm not sure I am understanding what you are asking.

Do you need help creating a link to another page on your site (hyperlink)?

Are you asking how to style your links to look like wall hangings or pillows?

Are you asking how to create drop down menus with the above-mentioned stylings?

Perhaps a picture of what you are trying to accomplish will help resolve your situation.

~regards, and welcome to the community!

[onewalrus]

It sounds like you want to create 'hot-spots' with images, or a single image. Is that it?

[nerdykit]

My website is called Creative Collectibles and more. Its a crafts store type thing and what I am trying to do is to have the user be able to click on the link such as sewing crafts corner and when they do that have it come up with sub links like wall hangings or pillows. I am not sure how to go about doing that. Any help I could get would be appreciated.
Glowingbutterfly77

Sounds to me as if you want an options menu to appear when they click on something. For that you'll probably need to use a form and a select input and also (probably) some javascript but I'm not talented enough to give you the required directions.

[pghcollectibles]

sounds to me like you're all right about the menue thing and i know there must be some pre-made code out there for it. my page uses a lot of coding to make my category section appear to expand when you click on it. i only have three fake subcategories in Americana but they work so i am going to start adding subcategories now but it doesnt have to be that hard but you would most likely want to use php and css to control the way it appears

by the way i know you just got started but i saw you had a hm icon for your website and just to personalize it i would suggest adding a favicon in your public_html folder

[glowingbutterfly77]

I'm not quite sure how to put what I want to do but I will try to explain. I have a link called Sewing Crafts Corner and when a customer or viewer clicks on that I want the pages wall hanging and pillows to come up on it for them to choose from. They could click on either wall hangings or pillows to pull up the different items under those categories. Thats what I am trying to do. I hope this better explains what I am trying to do.

Helene
Glowingbutterfly77

[linFox]

Do you mean an expandable menu like this (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/navigate1.htm)?

[pghcollectibles]

or do you want the link to change the main part or frame of your site with example pictures or whatever to click on

[sdasevne]

I want the pages wall hanging and pillows to come up on it for them to choose from. They could click on either wall hangings or pillows to pull up the different items under those categories.

Do you mean an expandable menu like this? http://www.coolumbia.net

[glowingbutterfly77]

Sorry I haven't responded in a while. I will try again to say what I am looking for. I want to have a main category with subcategories in it. Something like this. Lets say you see mousepads and you click on that then what comes up is celebrity and personalized. You can click on celebrity and all the celebrity mousepads come up or you click on personalized and all the personalized ones come up. Hopefully this helps. I do have some coding for whats already there if you need to see it but I don't know how to make the subcategories appear when the main category is clicked on.

Helene

[sdasevne]

I suggest you find a website on the internet that does something like you want, and let someone take a look at it to see how it's done.

[glowingbutterfly77]

I am not sure where to find a website with what I want so I figured I tried to show you myself on here. This is what I want to have with my store.

SEWING CORNER (Main category)

(Main category gets clicked on and it looks like this after being clicked on)

SEWING CORNER
Wall hangings
Pillows { Subcategories that come up when the main category is clicked on.)

I'm hoping this will help. If it doesn't I can show you the coding and the guy that was helping me but isn't anymore told me it was the same as what I was doing and if it is then I am doing something wrong.

Helene

[shadmego]

You can so something like this with either javascript and/or CSS, but using CSS for this is fairly advanced. Even I have problems with the coding to make drop down lists of links.

Basically, you have to create the HTML first, and you will have to nest each level inside <ul> tags. Then you will have to code each child level in order.

You can try searching the Internet for "drop down menus".

Or you can wait till someone posts the solution here .... whichever you have time for.

~regards

[pghcollectibles]

using the analogy of a picture being worth a thousand words and this post has been here for so long now that im sure you are wanting some results soon (takes breath) and the pages we make are all about looks and graphics etc...

how about you use something real simple like paint or your favorite image editing program to create a before and after shot of what you are looking for.

it will be easy for one of us to write some code for you with that. those of us with coding experience all have seen so many ways one thing can be done, i feel restrained from just posting a bunch of examples. im hearing the verizon wireless guy in my head.

is this what you want, how about this, no, maybe this, or this. do you see where we are coming from. you post the two pics, ill give you some code. ;)

[shadmego]

Maybe you are better at this than I am, but I don't think this is something you are just going to be able to whip up. It takes serious skill and while I *could* write something like this, it would take me far longer than is reasonable to get something stable.

Here is something close to what glowingbutterfly is after:

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/EK.asp

Although I think she is asking to show the drop down after a click ...

~regards

[valdersdan]

I think this is what you are looking for. When you click on an item in under Category a second page opens with secondary options. I think it just means creating a new page with icons for the secondary items with hypertext code to take the customer to the category they are interested in. http://www.micromark.com/

[pghcollectibles]

i have two simple scripts. one is javascript one is php. the php page reloads each time you click, the javascript does not but not everyone has javascript enabled.

then there is the php category layout that is in my homepage (my sig) but it is a little more complex and it is from oscommerce so it is integrated into a heavily coded site

and the css style.

those really are the basic ways to animate the links but the decoration is what is important to people seeing the page. so the how its done is figured out by the coder and the what it does has to be shown to start coding.

no need to pick up the tools if we dont have the schematics, unless your only troubleshooting something that already worked

after i see pictures i would want to know if the content displayed will be static or if it needs to gather info from a text file or database to possibly have different values if your categories change often.

[Delton]

I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. It sounds as though you have a site and when someone clicks on your main Url a page opens with pictures of pillows on it with different names on the pillows. You want the pictures hyperlinked to go to a page with pillows matching the pillows on your main page. In other words you want to hyperlink an image. If that is what you want to do let us know. It is really a simple process.

Delton
http://realsmartsite.com/L/mpm.html