Is there a way that when you hover over a word on a website it can the show you a description of what that word means for example 'Diet Coke' if you hovered over it, it would say 'Diet coke is part of the coca cola company' I can do it when I create a link but I do not want the word to link to anything.

Also if you click on the S-Drive on here a pretty slick window pops up telling us its in trial, how would I create such a window.

I have an over basic understanding of website design so any help big or small would be much appreciated

Thanks.

the title="" on an image will also make a tiny message bit appear - maybe you could play with that...?

otherwise a bit of javascript and css would probably be the way...

hmm - and if its a css popup for images you're after search "lightbox"
for basic css popups try
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicinde … /index.htm

Hi, re the "hover":
I use CC Editor but my knowledge of coding is very basic - I tried this little bit of code in a new page:



Basically it's a link with nowhere to go (href=""), it seems to work in FireFox and IE7 OK, i.e. the text in the title="etc" attribute shows up on mouse hover, but ...
clicking on it in IE7 brings up Windows Explorer and shows the local disc directory I'm working in - I don't know how this will work after being uploaded to a server as I haven't tried it.

Also there are probably reasons why this method is "not a good idea" e.g. I bet it sets up an error when validated, so I'm hoping someone with more coding savvy than me will set me straight if necessary.

PS use the class="hover" (or whatever you want to name it in your *.css file) to make the words look like regular words and not like the standard blue underlined link, if that's how you want it.

It sounds like you're wanting a modal box:

http://okonet.ru/projects/modalbox/

There's many more where this came from, just Google it to find out more

Zipper's suggestion, which is kind of a variation on Fe's suggestion, is probably the simplest and most direct way to provide a 'hover-comment'.
And if you replace href="" with href="#nogo", there should not be any problems with functionality or validation.

Try a word bubble. http://trentrichardson.com/2006/12/02/css-bubble-tooltips/

Thanks for the answers and idea's all great, much appreciated.