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Topic: Fancy text & image tricks welcome here!! |
Mike Headrick
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South Pittsburg, TN, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 8:12 am |
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Back about a year ago, someone posted a question about how to do something with text and it turned into a free-for-all. There were numerous replies with the text and even images moving around like circus acrobats. The original poster was disgruntled at the fun everyone was having with his question and he closed the post just as I found the thread.
I am interested in learning some nice "tricks" and invite you to reply with some of your own.
Thanks![This message was edited by Mike Headrick on 26 November 2005 at 09:01 AM.] |
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 8:20 am
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I wonder if he ever got his gruntle back.
If you can find it in a search (I'm not sure b0b saves stuff in the test area but I may be wrong) you know that you can click 'edit' and see how the stuff is done, right?
I'm looking to see if I saved any of that stuff to show you.... |
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Mike Headrick
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South Pittsburg, TN, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 8:59 am
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Jon,
You can't access the edit function in a locked thread. I tried.
Were you dissing my gruntle-terminology? 
Any help would be appreciated.
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Dave Potter
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Texas
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Posted 26 Nov 2005 9:16 am
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| Were you dissing my gruntle-terminology? |
disassociate - reassociate
disappear - reappear
disgruntle - regruntle
Are you attempting to do anything specifically?[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 26 November 2005 at 09:17 AM.] |
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sonbone
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Waxahachie, TX
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 2:02 am
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Maybe something using the html "marquee" tag...
[This message was edited by sonbone on 28 November 2005 at 02:09 AM.] [This message was edited by sonbone on 28 November 2005 at 02:10 AM.] |
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sonbone
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Waxahachie, TX
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 3:25 am
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The Mcweber link notes those are only for Internet Explorer.
I ran into the I.E. issue on my own web site. I use MS FrontPage to generate and maintain my web site. My ISP also supports FrontPage extensions. I had some FrontPage "eye candy" on my web site, with moving banners, buttons generated by FrontPage, etc. When the Firefox boom hit, I downloaded it and tried it on my web site, and found out none of the buttons were visible or if they were, the button name was not, etc. I had to do a lot of modifications to my web site and remove the Frontpage generated buttons, etc. |
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Dave Potter
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 5:03 am
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| The Mcweber link notes those are only for Internet Explorer. |
I think I'm seeing what was intended, using Netscape 7.2. I see that link is copyrighted 1998. Might have been true then.[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 28 November 2005 at 05:06 AM.] |
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Mike Headrick
From:
South Pittsburg, TN, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 4:38 pm
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Sonbone,
Yes, the Marquis tag is the type of effect I'm looking for. I'm familiar with that one, but how about the "rolling effects". I've seen text move up and down as it scrolled across the page. I'm curious about other effects like materializing from dots into solid looking letters.
Thanks for the replies. |
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sonbone
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Waxahachie, TX
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 11:07 pm
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Mike,
If your search google for "javascript scrolling text", you'll find plenty of examples. You can also use the marquee tag with direction="up" to get the scrolling effect. I don't have Netscape to test the tag with, but the I know it works with Firefox 1.0 - 1.0.7 on both the Windows and Linux platforms.
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sonbone
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Waxahachie, TX
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 11:24 pm
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Mike,
I thought of a couple of other things...text materializing out of dots, etc. is probably either an animated gif or flash animation. These effects are pretty easy to accomplish with the proper software, some of which can be expensive, some of which is freeware or shareware.
Many of the scrolling effects are javascript and are programmed onto the web page using javascript timers and html tags such as "division" and "span". These "elements" as they are called may be positioned on a page and then moved each time the timer fires. There are many javascripts that are free to use that are posted on the web and even though the programming may look complicated in them, they are usually pretty easy to modify to suit one's needs.
You might give http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ a look, as it has just about every type of javascript code imaginable.
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 6:09 am
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Dave Potter
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Texas
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 6:12 am
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Dave Potter
From:
Texas
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Posted 30 Nov 2005 4:45 pm
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Well, I guess that about wraps it up!  |
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Mike Headrick
From:
South Pittsburg, TN, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2005 3:36 am
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| Thanks Guys. I appreciate you advice and input. |
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