Ok here's the thing, I made this little pretty thing in flash where if you put your mouse over a transparent shade appears.Take a look. Simple effect right? Well I don't specialize in much beside my flash skills and some other meaningless web skills. I'm sure its possible I've seen alot of cool effects done with out flash but I have no idea how to do it.

So all in all does anyone know of a alternite way to achieve this effect without using Flash? I would like to be able to put stuff under it. And a smiliar effect, like put your mouse over it looks nicie...ya its kinda windowsie style....

I think theres a way to do it with the somewhat undocumented CSS Filters.

Java script is also capable of it. Perhaps you can find something at http://javascript.internet.com/

Yeah, you can do it fairly easily with CSS. I've got a bookmark here somewhere..

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/

It covers lists, but there's some code at the bottom that can be used to do what you want.

Thanks, looks interesting but I wouldn't want to use the CSS one [yet] that would mean switching over my site to it, I'll probably do that in the future *bookmarks page*.

Thanks HaTcH, but that place didn't seem to have the one I wanted.

CSS is gooooood. Switch nowwwww.

Seriously, it's worth the trouble...if you do it well you only have to mess with it once to be able to change your site completely in the future.

True that Tilly, True that.

The last major update on LU, I have each and every page controlled by one single CSS file. No more digging through tons of files to change one color, its just one adjustment in the CSS and boom!

I know that's very much true...but I only know very very basic CSS, I read a book on HTML, I managed to learn a bit of HTML but I ended up flipping past the pages alot of the time.....it's really not my kind of thing, I like WYSIWYG, its easier to preview...but I use the code/page view on my macromedia flash, alot of times I edit the code...editors do have their limits...

I also discovered how hard making forum skins were...T_T I don't know CSS.....

CSS rocks my world. Seriously.
If you ever decide to change the layout CSS is a very handy tool to have, it's even much easier than making a layout with simply html (tables = evil).
Excellent to work with, yay CSS.

I still use tables, since otherwise in old browsers stuff goes WOOO...and I like tables anyway. Now, font tags, THOSE are evil.

I for one (or 2) <3 Tables. They are so easy to code and are so malable. Not to mention the perfect compatability with Mozilla vs IE browsers. I know caps likes to do stuff with DIV tags which is alright but it doesn't work well for everything.

As for FONT tags... without CSS those are useless.. I have on LU all text enclosed in some kind of font tag, perhaps <font class="Regular"> or <font class="small">. Now that is nice, <P> tags are pretty much useless and thats that.

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/