To you non Web developers, there’s a special tag we use when we want to make text pop up as your mouse hovers over something. It’s called a tool tip, and if I’m not mistaken, the practice originated in Microsoft software years ago.

Now, to you Web developers, if you’re using a single header graphic spanning the entire page, here’s a tip: be careful what tool tip you use, or else you might create results like the one I inadvertantly found when my mouse traveled to the top of the contact page for United States Senator for Maine Olympia Snowe:

Now that’s one handsome woman!

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