What are jargons? To put it simply, jargons are technical words used by a group of people, usually a profession. When using jargons, always include a short description of what it exactly is. Let's say you are writing a page on Nebulas. One who is not an expert in astronomy or have never studied astronomy would not know what Nebulas are.
With the help of the title tag, you can easily show your readers what Nebulas are, without having to click on another link to the glossary. The explanation text will show up on rollover after a split second.
Use something like this in your HTML script:
<span class="jargons" title="Nebulas are clouds of gases in space.">Nebulas</span>
This is what you will get: Nebulas (Rollover to see)
Add a little CSS design to your webpage and it would be more obvious to readers.
.jargons
{ border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-bottom-color: #666666;
cursor: help;
}
And this will be the end result: Nebulas (Underlined in Grey, rollover "?" symbol)
In our site, we used JavaScripting for an instant (and nicer) rollover for jargons.
View Flash illustration of using jargons
