need a pop up tutorial

[Joolsd186]

Hi im just starting out so please be patient.

I have a idea of how popups and resizing windows works.

But I would love to be able to do the popup where a you can get ride of the menu at the top of the browser, infact all the junk between the web page and the top of the window. I would like to use this to present pictures.

If there is a good tutoral on this you could recomend?

many thanks

[snow]

After a quick google search:

http://www.blazonry.com/javascript/windows.php

seems to have all the basic info you need!

Good Luck
Snow

[ukgeoff]

If you look around this and many other forums covering similar subjects, you will find that pop windows and resizing windows are generally considered a bad thing to do.

[Joolsd186]

Thanks for the replies, after searching, there are many different ways... its seems on doing this trick. But in the end dreamweaver had a java behavior,(open browser window) which I think is working ok(in mozilla and IE anyway)

I guess pop blockers, could cause problems, the problem is there is so many pictures on this site, and a great deal of content. Geoff please explain to the newbee the problems you have seen with this?


jools

[snow]

The general problems with this relate mostly to confusing the user, especially with the breaking of the back-button (so that in a new page they can't press back to get back to where they were). It can be terribly annoying to close a page that a link popped up instead of doing the natural intuitive thing that has been learnt, and it will make users generally distrustful of your site.

In my own opinion one of the exceptions to this (although a lot would argue) is zooming-in on pictures. This is because there really isn't any nice intuitive, simple, non-intrusive way of doing it (that I've found at least). As long as the enlarged image takes up less than the screen and is positioned so that the user can still see most of the original page so they're not wondering where their back-button's gone, then I think it's reasonable.

Snow

[bruno89]

iv found a dhtml pop up this cant be blocked by any blocker that i know of
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...htmlwindow.htm the only thing is its just like a normal pop up you dont have a choice to wether it pops up or not