This appears to be a simple Javascript/CSS/Imagemap creation. A web developer could create it easily and it could be hosted on localhost running Apache; most presentation programs like OpenOffice allow CSS/HTML/Javascript. A quick post to Craigslist under the Internet Gigs should find someone, however, it's probably going to be about as easy to learn by looking at JavaScript examples here: http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_image_maps.asp Remember real "programmers" like Larry Wall, Tom Christianson, and Randal L. Schwartz are born; the rest of us posers STEAL, Cut Splice and Debug! http://wapedia.mobi/en/Obnosis || http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obnosis | Obnosis.com (503)754-4452 > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:57:43 -0700 > From: schwartz@acm.org > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: OT? Request for programming quote > CC: joe@actionline.com; schwartz@acm.org > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Josef Lowder wrote: > > I've marked this message "OT?" because I don't know if this is off > > topic or not ... or if there is a better forum where I might submit > > this inquiry. > > > > I need help creating a small program (html I think) to be used for a > > presentation that I envision working as described below. First take a > > look at this image: > > > > http://www.upquick.com/view/top20most.jpg > > > > 1. The opening image would have all 20 white spaces blank. > > 2. When questioning an audience on the "Top 20" subject, as anyone > > gives a response that corresponds to one of the hidden titles in one > > of the blank white spaces, I would click on that space and the > > corresponding title should appear. > > 3. On my laptop computer, I would see a version of this display with > > all the blank white spaces filled in, so I would know which window to > > mouse click on to have that white blank window filled in. > > 4. Ideally, clicking on any window should work like an on/off switch. > > Click on it once and it fills in. Click again and it blanks out. > > > > I would only need code for two or three windows as an example and I > > could replicate that and add the applicable titles for all of the > > blank spaces. > > > > Please email me directly at joe@actionline.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] > > reply to both sender "and" list (I hope that is OK): > > I suppose you would want to have the rights > (non-exclusive rights, at least) > to the source code > (right?) > (because then, you could tweak it... what am I saying? > everyone here already knows! the advantages > of having the source code > [incl. the rights to use it, and to modify it]...) > > if that is an "affirmative", (right?) and/OR > if you are on a budget (just a guess, here!) > then, here is an idea: you might be > able to find some CS class, where they are > teaching / learning programming. Maybe you > could get one student to choose this for their > project, and they could still get some academic > credit for writing the code > (if school rules don't prohibit that) > [hmm, do they?], > plus, presumably they could do it for fairly cheap > since they (let's assume) have to do "some" > school project anyway > (I am thinking college, probably [/community college] > [or DeVry? or U of Phoenix?], vs. HS, but hey, > whatever works the best...) > > Maybe you could even get multiple students > (in the same class?) > to do so (offer some prize for the best, or for > all the ones that you copy / "use" ideas from) > I am not "sure" that you could find such a deal, > but it seems like it would be a good idea, if you can. > > Plus, if you were to work with the coder[s], > let's say on trying to define / 'nail down' the > requirements, > and on evaluating "prototype" versions of the code, > "feasibility study" / trial versions, etc., > and providing feedback to the coders, > (and maybe *getting* some input from them! > -- i.e., answers to questions that maybe > you did not even think to ask!) > then, > you would probably get to know them > somewhat - - and that is a plus for the > future, at least potentially it "might" be... > even if you don't end up hiring them in the future, > [who knows...], it still might be a "networking" > << 'win' >>, in some sense, for both of you > - - that is, > once you've gotten to know them better, > then (maybe) (eventually) > you meet their friends, > they meet your friends, [. . .], > lather rinse and repeat > (until loop exit condition == TRUE) > -- > Mike Schwartz > Glendale AZ > schwartz@acm.org > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/