Topic: The wee little hand...

[Colin Mattoon]

Hi:

When browsing most websites with Navigator (at least with the Linux/Unix versions) the mouse pointer displays a "hand" while hovering over a link, and then a "clock face" as soon as that link is "clicked on."

This gives a positive indication that the link was selected.  The e-smith site doesn't do this...the mouse pointer remains as a hand until the new page loads.

At this moment, I'm only using e-smith as a gateway for our office and it's probably not a big deal, but as it is my intent to set up a webserver at our company as soon as the phone company installs the new lines, I was showing your site to some of my collegues at work.  They immediately noticed this, while I had overlooked it.

As a complete incompetant when it comes to computers (you would shudder if you saw the webpages I created to use on a non-esmith apache server) I have no clue if this is inherent to the e-smith package, or merely the way e-smith chose to set up this site.

Has anyone else noticed this? Does it occur when viewing the site with other browsers and other operating systems?

Nitpickingly yours,

Colin Mattoon

[Colin Mattoon]

Let me clarify this by adding that I am refering to the links listed in the frame at the left side of the page...

Colin Mattoon

[Joseph Morrison]

Hello Colin!

You're very observant This has nothing to do with our software, but is due to the fact that the navigation bar on our main web site is a single image with a clickable image map.

On our other site http://www.e-smith.org we did it the more traditional way and you'll find that the wee little hand appears

We used a GIF image to get more control over the font and formatting of the navigation bar on our main web site. Some people who do that also use JavaScript tricks to make the links light up or change as you move the mouse over them. We haven't gotten around to that yet.

So it's all up to the web site designer - the e-smith server has nothing to do with it.

Best regards,
- Joe