🚀 go-pugleaf

Merritt,

If you start re-sizing the user's main browser window, folks will leave your
site in droves! People don't like you messing with the window size THEY have
a preference for.

well, how about pop-up windows? i'd like those to appear smaller spontaneously, so that the user doesnt have to resize the secondary browser window everytime.

Merritt,

>>well, how about pop-up windows? <<

You can open a child window at whatever size you choose.

All you need to do is call a JavaScript function whose code is:

window.open("yourfile.html",winName,features)


where  features is width='width in pixels', height='height in pixels'

first tell us how you're currently opening the window and then we can tell you how to configure it.

here's a sample:

in the body you want something like this (using a button example):

<INPUT type="button" onClick="startWindow('http://members.aol.com/aikodude/links1.html');" value="Open links window">

------

this goes into the <head> section:



 
function startWindow(loc)  
{ 
    newWin = window.open("", "MessageBox", 'toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=1,menubar=0, scrollbars=1, resizable=1, width=700, height=250'); 
    if (newWin != null) { 
        if (! newWin.opener) newWin.opener = self; 
        newWin.location = loc;  
    } 
} 




here's a link to the window.open function listing the options:

 <http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/tutorials/docs/Netscape/JSRef4/win1.htm#1152528>

well, i have a splash page which opens into a main page, which acts as a directory. the smaller pages would open through the directory (i would prefer otherwise, but the files have become too large in imageready for my computer to convert into html format).
the smaller pages are each slideshows.

So I should edit the html for the directory to determine the size of the smaller pages?

I am obviously not a web designer. I really appreciate your help.

In the head section of your main page you need a javascript spmething like:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

function newWindow(url,winname,features){
 window.open(url,winname,features)
}

-->
</script>

Then your 'directory links' would be coded as:

<A href="#" onClick="newWindow('yourlinkURL','yourwindowname','height=300' width=400'>Your link text

But this really is nothing to do with I,ageReady and you should ask over in the GoLive forum or Website Design sub-forum of the GoLive forum

thanks