Many times a “table like” layout is necessary to abide by the Rule of Thirds law, specially with the currently popular “magazine” type website layouts.
Adding a table to the layout would simply be too easy, and wouldn’t fit into the “Do Everything without Tables” mentality plaguing the web. So I demonstrate how to achieve the behavior without the table.
“Simple Slide” is an automated slide show that can also be used for banner ads. Download it now to tweak it for your specific application.
Here is a simple attempt at some JavaScripted tooltips. I expect there to be bugs when you have two “sticky” tooltips overlapping each other.
A common and frustrating issue when creating text fields dynamically is the manipulation of this objects alpha property. Usually you just set it and forget it, but in this case a couple more steps are required. the trick is to set the blending mode of the text fields parent object.
