I'm looking for a way to have a box appear when I rollover an image I've added to a page. See the three big white boxes in the example website below:

http://www.brighthopeworld.com/index.asp

I don't need the client to be able to edit the content of those boxes (although that would be excellent if possible). I know I could just put each image in it's own <div> and have an a:hover for that div for each image. But that seems like a very sloppy way to do this.

Any ideas?

~ James

Nice transition on the images so far. I can't think of any cleaver way of controlling this. You'd need to make a dynamic style sheet or dynamic javascript file to allow the images and on hover states to be editable. I'd stick with the sloppy but functional :hover. Is the whole image meant to swap out on hover? I'd just apply a lite grey hover to the white container box. Or I've found applying opacity to a image worked quite well for me, just to lighten the image on hover

filter:alpha(opacity=75);
opacity:.75;

You have to apply both. I think filter is for IE and opacity is for Mozilla

try JQuery UI and the JQuery Plugins directory, there you can find a lot of effects.