"Inside Webpage" Popup

[metroid87706]

Is there a way I can add in a popup like [url]www.Microsoft.com[/url] has with its side
bar? For example, if you go to Microsoft.com and on the right side click
Products & Related Technologies, it opens a popup in the website like Windows
does. Is there anyway I can do that in my own website?
If so, how?
If not, thanks for trying to help me out.

[Nick Barling]

Microsoft have done this because they have a large amount of menu options and
want to use thumbnail graphics to enhance the user experience?

There are a number of ways to do this. The easiest way is to use JavaScript
(ECMA Script) to generate a new window, which pops-up when the user clicks the
link. Such techniques are popular and easily coded (search Google for simple
Javascript pop-up window). Beware how you use this technique though as it can
easily offend as please if you get it wrong. There is more to simply poping
open another window, you need to consider why you are doing it and how you are
going to let the user interact with it. There are many variables that you can
define when you build this functionality. Consider accessibility and usability
too.

Another way of doing this type of thing is with AJAX or using css to control
absolutely positioned block level elements on the page. These techniques are a
little more imvolved buy there is plenty of information on the Web for you to
research.

Nick Barling
[url]www.barkingweb.com[/url]

[metroid87706]

Thank you. I am using this, because I am making sortof a web OS, and wanted
this. Its on the Nintendo Wii, which does not do popups that popup in a new
window. Microsofts open like in the webpage, so thats good for the Wii.

If anyone could mabey give me a step by step ( I'm new to Dreamweaver ) that
would be great.