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Special Web Page Effects
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| Fancy Text Effects |
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Most of the text in a web page should be just normal text (like this),
because it downloads quickly, and is pleasant to read.
The web page specifies the font and size, but your
browser determines what this text looks like.
If you want some of your text to look special, put it in an image.
Image text can have 3D effects like
drop shadow or
bevel,
glow effects,
patterned text effects, or
metal effects.
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| Animated GIF Effects |
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GIF images can be animated.
A GIF file can contain multiple images, and the file controls when the
images are displayed.
Look at these examples:
change of focus,
fading, and
spelling out text.
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| JavaScript® Effects |
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We use JavaScript® to add simple interactive effects to web pages, like
image rollovers,
rollover links (like our navigation buttons on the left side of this page), and
creating web pages in response to user inputs.
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| Java® Effects |
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Java® is a very powerful programming language,
and Java® applets use a subset of Java that can run on a user's computer.
Java applets can implement animations very efficiently because all the
graphic data is quickly calculated on the user's computer instead of
transmitted over the internet.
This particular
image animation
will run until you close its window.
Java® applets are also good for text animations like
this example, and
another example.
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