[CALUG] Web design question

[Keith]

That site is done in a Flash application. With Flash, you can design what
appear to be complete, independent programs with a database back-end feeding
all the data to it. You can also do things like this with Java Applets and
possibly AJAX. It's honestly far from a simple thing to set up and I can
guarantee you someone like the NY Times has a very well paid web app
developer doing their work.

I agree with you, too, that's a very cool graphic display of the data!

Keith

On 5/23/07, Edward D. Browne <Browne at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Are there any of you web designers who can tell me something about
> web sites such as this one:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/politics/08RESULTS_SENANALYSIS.html
>
> I think that's an excellent graphical display of  information, but I
> don't know
> enough about web design to understand how it's done.   I guess it's using
> tooltips  to show details when you mouse over a county, but I've never
> seen anything like the way it automatically displays the mouse-over
> details
> from the corresponding county from the *other* election.  How is that
> done?  And how do you create the graphical maps from (presumably)
> the tabular data of the election results?  Are there commercial products
> that do this, or reference books that explain it?
>
> Thanks very much - Ed
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