Video Tutorial: JavaScript Tooltips
Strategically placed text boxes help improve usability
You've probably seen those useful "tooltips" text boxes that are displayed on some websites when you roll over a specific link or graphic. These typically serve several purposes. Most likely, your customers or visitors could benefit from additional information that doesn't warrant an entire page or even another trip to the server. Or perhaps you are developer creating a complicated application, and some simple tool tips and help icons, strategically placed, would improve the usability. This simple tutorial illustrates how to use the ToolTips script.
Software Used: TextMate
Additional Files: tooltip_tutorial.zip
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