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Now Visitors Of Your Site See Helpful Content In Popup Tooltip Described Regions Of Image When Moving Mouse Over It. Or Can Browse Other Pages Linked To The Region By Click On It…

Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding visual tags to any site’s images. Visual tag is a clickable image region tagged with some title, description and link. When vistor moves mouse over such region Taggify shows popup tooltip with interesting content provided by the publisher.
Taggify widget

Click here to see how it looks? and best of all its absolutely free! Just signup now.

Use Open-Source DHTML/Javascript Lightweight Tooltips For Your Website

BoxOver uses javascript / DHTML to show tooltips on a website. Implementation of the tooltips, however, requires no knowledge of DHTML or javascript. Move your mouse over the items below to see examples.

BoxOver

There are many tweaks which can be set to customise it to your needs.  As shown above BoxOver is set through a tag’s “title” attribute. 

Some of the salient features are:

  • Optimised for lowest CPU usage with lightning response times
  • Tested in all major browsers
  • Easy to set up with only a basic knowledge of HTML
  • Open source

    You can see a working example page with BoxOver here. Also, you can see BoxOver in action in SmashingApps.com under sponsors on the advertisement banners.