Topic awaiting preservation: Need Tutorials for HTML based Special Effects

Hi Doc and everyone else

I'm hoping to "reach" you via this forum

I'm enclosing a copy of the email I sent you. Basically I need tutorials online for creating HTML-based special effects such as moving text & menu, etc.

THanks.

Sandra

email sent:

.....What I'm wondering is, I already know basic HTML, am designing my website (www.internetwriting.net) via Dreamweaver, but am trying to find resources - mainly, tutorials that will tell me how to put in moving menus, moving texts across the webpage, and other HTML based special effects? I can't handle graphical special effects, I need 'light' special effects.

I have to admit, I'd love to learn how to do that special effect you do with your own website, where the viewer click on to the next webpage and then the webpage comes into focus. It's a lovely effect.

CNET used to have "CNET Builder" or something like that and I used to use that quite a bit, but it seems to have disappeared.

Thanks.

Sandra

You seem to have a misunderstanding of HTML. You can not use it to create moving text and menus.
Google for "DHTML".

Moving to DHTML...............

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Emps

The Emperor dot org

Why don't you browse some websites and find a site or two that do the tricks you want to pull off and learn from their source code how to do it for your site. That IMHO is the best way to learn.


this sight may have what you're looking for...



[This message has been edited by Boudga (edited 01-30-2004).]

Many thanks everyone. Your information is very much appreciated. I will search accordingly from now on.

Sandra

Boudga, for the record, I think that's a very poor way to learn DHTML.

There's no telling how competent the programmer is and if they are good, chances are a beginner won't be able to understand it. That and I myself have tried to reverse engineer several peoples scripts for various different thing but 9 times out of 10 end up wasting 2 days trying to hack something into place, give up and write the whole thing from scratch myself in a day and a half.

I think your better off googling for beginner DHTML and JavaScript tutorials.

i'm doing that now. found a basic script for page translations, so am going to experiment.

thanks for the advice.

sandra

Special-effects that are infact entirely html-based is found here: http://www.naltabyte.se/liquid

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