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[Keith]

Welcome Rachel

> those photos.  I designed it so you would click on the small version
> and the large version would appear in a popup window,

> they believe
> people will find it annoying having to close the popup window

Perhaps they are afraid that people just find pop-ups annoying and
that many use a Pop-Up Stopper and wont get to participate
without being further annoyed. Maybe "having to close the popup
window" is just  their way of saying that. We're doing a car lot site
and that turned out to be the case with them.

Here's what we did. We also have a small image visitors can click
on to see the full size image.  But we do not load the full sized one
into a pop-up. Instead we required all full size images to have the
same width and height. We then have a hidden layer containing a 1
pixel transparent image stretched to that width and height. When
visitor clicks to see the full image we 'visible' the layer and do a
rollover on the image, pulling that full image off the server. The trick
is to wait until the rollover event to pull the image instead of pre-
loading it if you want acceptable initial page load time. Our page
usually contains 50 vehicles so it would have been impractical, at
least, to have loaded them all on initial page loading. We also have
a "Close Image" bar above the image which does a 'hidden' on the
layer and also rolls back to the transparency.

We also use a tag that simply sends the visitor to another page if
they have javascript turned off and cannot activate the layer/rollover.

The client likes it.

I'm just wondering when advertisers will catch on to layers instead
of pop-ups.....

keith