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Posted by Guy Doucet on 06/03/05 02:43
"dorayme" <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:BEC5C851.12301%dorayme@optusnet.com.au...
> > From: "Guy Doucet" <someone@somewhere.nb.ca>
>
> > "dorayme" <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:BEC4FD1F.122B2%dorayme@optusnet.com.au...
> >>> From: "Guy Doucet" <someone@somewhere.nb.ca>
> >>
> >>> This is just an example of the real site I'm working on, but this
> > example
> >>> works the same way.
> >>>
> >>> http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/gljsd/map/index.htm
> >>
> >>
> >> Excuse me for not dealing with this particular url (it is too crazy for
> >> words on my browsers...
>
> > This is just an example of how it works. In this example, I made the
popup
> > window bigger than the sub window making it easier ... to View Source.
> >
>
> This never occurred to me as your motive. I mostly key command source code
> anyway...and I bet not much would stop others on this newsgroup ferreting
> your code out. At least make the real thing user sizeable unlike in your
> example, scroll bars are not enough.
>
> > map is approx 2000x2000 pixels, and the window is 650 x 1000 pixels
which
> > fits on our monitors which are set to 1024 x 768 pixels. So it's not
really
> > a small window.
>
> Not sure why these figures? Are the monitors portrait? Anyway, you need to
> think about this business of the pop up. The pop up is ideal for
situations
> where you have a small amount of info, especially pictorial, that can be
> referred to without losing one's place on the main site. To squeeze a 2000
x
> 2000 in it with scroll bars defeats the purpose somewhat. And how would
you
> have the relevant bit of the map showing at first? People would have to
> scroll away till they saw something bright and backlit and all singing and
> dancing. Nah...
>
> Guy, I would not do this. I would either make the pop up with just a fixed
> pic showing the office concerned and a bit of the surrounding context.
Yes,
> you have to prepare 50 or more pics. So work! Where are you? Here in
Sydney
> it is very hard because the beach beckons but maybe you are in some place
> where it is better to be distracted by image editing (eg in some nervous
> making earthquake prone place)
>
> > I will re-examine your earlier post.
>
> I am not sure why you splice the map into table cells. One possible reason
> was that someone might look at one office, and then want to look at
another
> - in which case all the cells that are common to the two maps will load
> instantly (because of the caching of many of the sub-images). But since
you
> said speed is no issue, it is in an office somewhere, in-house, what is
the
> point of table cells?
>
> Look, why not keep it simple, honestly. Assume folk know their city and
> prepare just small local maps for the offices (with a link to the big one
> for those who might want to see the whole - no highlights) If you have the
> pop up, you will need javascript I think. You can just use target _Blank
in
> the html instead. Or nothing. Just simple link to the relevant bit of the
> map and they use their back buttons...
>
> dorayme
I know it's difficult to understand what I am trying to do. I also know
that I am by no means a pro at this, it's not even part of my job, I am just
trying to set up an internal web site that would help new employees. Thanks
for your patience.
I'm on the Atlantic coast of Canada. The months of April and May have been
cold and very wet. Looks like June will be much better - the last few days
were nice and warm, 25 - 30 degree temperatures - Celcius that is!
As for the map, I originally thought that I had to divide it into smaller
grids, but now realise that I don't need to.
As far as the popup window, I would actually prefer that it was ~not~ a
popup. But how can I link to another webpage with a parameter, and how does
the linked html file retrieve that parameter?
Here is another way to explain what I have. I actually have 3 things:
- One HTML file containing the list of the approximnately 50 offices
- An HTML file for each office, displaying a picture and description of that
office
- One HTML file showing the map of all the office locations.
The first thing to appear is the list of offices by names. When the employee
clicks on an office from the list, it links them to the html file displaying
its picture and description. If the employee wants, there is also a map
button they can click on which will show the entire map with this office
location highlighted - (like you suggest, I would prefer this not to be a
popup). If it wasn't a popup, they could then either click back to return
to the office picture, and back again to the original list, or if they
prefer, they could click on another office on the map which would take them
to the html file displaying ~its~ picture and description. So basically,
they could move around from the list, the office picture/description, and
the map.
Thanks again for your patience and all...
Guy
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