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Posted by dorayme on 06/03/05 03:43
> From: "Guy Doucet" <someone@somewhere.nb.ca>
> 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?
OK, no pop up. It may be that there is no need to "retrieve" anything.
Parameters and retrieval is programming stuff, have we established you need
any yet? Obviously you know that you can link to picture itself or another
page. It may or may not be useful here but you should know that you can also
link to a particular *part* of another page. It is done as follows. You name
some bit of the target page with the construction <a name="map">here is
map...</a> And you refer to this bit in the link like this: <a
href="somePage/#name">see this bit</a>. This may become relevant for you
depending on how you proceed.
>
> 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.
Yes, I thought it was a bit like this. Now I know for sure you have a page
for each office, this is what you could do: put the relevant bit of the map
on each office page. Forget the 2000 * 2000 for this, just edit a chunk for
each page. The 2000*2000 can be somewhere that is linkable from each page
for reference if needed. Get cracking, your summer will be over and you will
be too cold and miserable and depressed if you have not done it by then.
If you absolutely have to have the whole map for context for users
everytime, then do this: put some coordinates (ABCDEF..., and 12345...) on
the map itself (top, bottom, left and right as in street directories) -
easy to do in any image-editing software. And put in the map coordinates in
some html at the top of the map bold. Then thety can scroll to the bit
concerned quickly. This way you prepare one map only. It is repeated on
every office page and only the coordinates change. No need to do any
highlighting besides this. When I think about it, I would probably end up
doing this. BTW, you can refer to the map from the top of the office page,
or the original list link page, if you find it useful, by the technique of
linking to a part of the page.
>
> Thanks again for your patience and all...
>
It has gone beyond a matter of patience. I can't sleep nights until you are
happy.
dorayme
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