how do you make it so when you mouse-over something it make text appear in the bar on the bottem

please use a much better title for your threads. it should describe the problem briefly such as...
"text in the status bar"

in this case, it is done with javascript...
<A HREF="Somepage.html" OnMouseover="window.status='This link goes to another page';return true;" OnMouseout="window.status=' ';">

Mouse over this link !

</A>

o ok thanks