dazzle as some of the demos I've seen on the
net. Mine are a little more subtle...
#1: Shadow Text
DHTML (with or without Javascript) can give your web page
a little bit of a 3D look without the overhead of a lot
of graphics. There is, however, the client processor
overhead needed to deal with the DHTML and/or Javascript.
The idea is to draw some colored text, and then draw
the same text in black a pixel or two offset. Actually,
the shadow is drawn first, and then the real text is
drawn on top.
Click here for an example.
#2: Tickertape Crawler
You've probably seen a lot of tickertape crawling banners
on the net. So have I. There are the Javascript forms
version which update a text input variable. There are
the ones which write over Netscape's status window at
the bottom of the screen. Then there are the Java
versions...
This one uses Javascript and DHTML to create a smoothly
scrolling, full color, full HTML, banner.
Check it out here.
#3: Type-matic display
"Type-matic" is a phrase which refers to the one-at-a-time
appearance of characters on the screen, as if they were
being typed in one at a time.
Try it here.
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