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May 21
2010
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Image menus are a hot design item, especially for getting attention to your primary products. You have one image to get attention, then when the user puts the mouse on the primary image, the image changes. The rollover image can be a different view of the default image, or it can be a completely different one. The image usually has a link so that it work as a "call to action" to get the user to visit the link.
Rollover menus like this are often done as Flash objects. That is a slick way to do things, but also an expensive way as these custom Flash menus can be quite costly. Once they are done, they are also impossible for non-technical people to edit. The Flash is fixed and final, so changes to your product line, event schedule, Website content, etc. will not be reflected in the Flash. At CorFun, we've dealt with this problem by creating an inexpensive Joomla module that gives you the rollover image menu effect, but without all the headaches.
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The Image Swap Rollover Menu was originally developed to help our Website design customers. It is a Joomla module that lets you specify up to 10 sets of images for display - default image, mouseover image, after mouseover image. The original use for this menu was to have mouseover images that were larger versions of the default image. That gave the impression that as you did a mouseover of the image, the image "swelled" up and became more prominent. The image itself was a link to a different part of the Website to either buy now or get more information. The module can be used in a Horizontal or Vertical fashion, and is done entirely in Javascript. The URL links can open in the same page, or can open in a new window. Since it was first launched, we have used it in a variety of ways. We have used it as a set of rollover ads. We have had the mouseover image be the primary issue with a shading difference only. We have used a completely different image for mouseover as is shown for many of the items in our demo on this page. We have used the after mouseover image as a different image, and sometimes we have simply gone back to the default image. The flexibility of this module and its ease of use makes it a must-have for designers interested in doing graphical menus within Joomla. Here is a recap of what the module can do:
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