Changing scroll bars to buttons

[deepsapce oddessy]

Hello all, I use Macromedia Dreamweaver Mac for my wepage editing, I was
wondering if anyone knows any helpful tutorials or instructions on how to
replace the ugly grey scroll bars in your frames with arrow buttons or the
like. Thanks much !!

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(deepsapce oddessy)

>Hello all, I use Macromedia Dreamweaver Mac for my wepage editing, I was
>wondering if anyone knows any helpful tutorials or instructions on how to
>replace the ugly grey scroll bars in your frames with arrow buttons or the
>like.

They are only grey and ugly on _your_ system (if you don't like it -
change it), they might look completely different on other systems.

Changing them on a website can't be done reliably nor should it be done
at all for usability reasons.

Micha

[deepsapce oddessy]

But I really want to change out the traditional scroll bars with little
arrows or something more subtle that is not a scroll bar with track.... so can
anyone help me understand how to do it.?

You mentioned that its not reliable... but i never really came across any
sites that i had problems with just because their scrolls bars were modified to
be something a ltitle nicer.

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(deepsapce oddessy)

> You mentioned that its not reliable... but i never really came across any
>sites that i had problems with just because their scrolls bars were modified to
>be something a ltitle nicer.

It's unreliable because it relies on JavaScript, which is not always
available. Additionally it will cause usability problems, because it
will most likely not behave as a standard scroll bar and look different.
This will confuse unexperienced users.

Micha

[deepsapce oddessy]

Well the wepgage looks like [url]http://www.ultrasoundproductions.ca[/url] right now.. so i want to smooth out the page by changing the scroll bars. Any suggestions on how to do that? Thanks!

[big_old_bird]

You can control the colours of the scroll bar elements using CSS which means
you can effectively 'hide' the scroller etc. You can find more info here:

[url]http://websitetips.com/articles/css/scrollbars/[/url]

You can do it .... but should you? I'd agree with Micha, avoid it if possible
and perhaps revisit your design, i dislike having many scrollables within a
page especially when the containers are not dimensioned relative to thier
content (don't make me scroll when I shouldn't have to).

Karen

[deepsapce oddessy]

Thanks Karen. I might do that, but I still hope someone can point me towards how to use buttons.... I just like the look of that.