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Asked: 2026-05-11T23:56:19+00:00

I have an idea I’m trying to implement. I want to display half a

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I have an idea I’m trying to implement.

I want to display half a dozen pictures on a screen, in say a circle shape, and as I hover over one with the mouse it fades from grey and white into full colour, maybe even getting a little larger, or generating a drop-shadow effect which stays while the mouse is over it.

Although I’m not too shabby on VB6 and SQL Server, my web development experience extends about at far as using notepad to generate raw HTML to display some favourite folders, links to websites and documents etc, in Active Desktop.

So guys, what programming resource websites should I be looking at, such as w3schools.com and specifically whether I should be using JavaScript or some other method … also specific method calls to look at would be good.

I’m not after "here … try this code" and then 10 screens of code to cut and paste, I’m after tips, such as "for the positioning, look at http://www.thiswebpage.com and look at XYZ" and "for the fade effect, look at ABC method on JavaScript" or whatever.

EDIT: 14/07/2009 – Just thought that this might be pertinent. I’ll be hosting the pages on a Google Apps hosted website.

Also, the black and white fade effect wasn’t the only effect I was considering, it was just one possibility. Other nice, subtle effects might be considered.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you want to implement shouldn’t be all that difficult. However if you do not know any JS then W3C schools is a good place to start.

    You should also check out Mootools. It is a great framework for all your JS needs. They also have some great demos you can try.

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