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Animation and Special Effects

Javascript can be used to add all sorts of fancy effects to your page from having images change when the mouse points to them to animating your page.
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18 Articles in: Animation and Special Effects
Add Continuously Scrolling Images to Your Website with This JavaScript
This script allows you to display horizontal marquees of continuous scrolling images without a break except when the mouse is moved over them.
Use This JavaScript Code to Scroll Text on Your Web Page
This JavaScript allows you to display one or more marquees containing text that will scroll continuously except when the mouse is moved over them.
DHTML Animation
Learn how to make objects appear/disappear and move around the browser window using nothing more than some simple HTMLand stylesheets combined with a few Javascript commands.
Use This JavaScript Code to Add a Memory Game to Your Web Page
Test your website visitors' memory skills by adding the memory game known as Concentration to your web page using this simple JavaScript code.
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Everything You Need to Know about Fonts and Choosing the Right Font Family
A guide for beginning Web designers and anyone who uses fonts on Web sites to find the right font for the right situation. This article will help you choose fonts for your site that show your originality but also work for your readers.
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Definition of the term script as it applies to web design and development.
How to Write a 'Last Visited' Script in PHP
How to make a PHP script that welcomes the user and tells them when they last visited.
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Everything You Need to Know about Using Mozilla Firefox
Several in-depth tutorials on different ways to utilize the Firefox Web browser's vast capabilities.
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The MARQUEE element allows you to create a scrolling text marquee on your web pages.
Getting Rid of document.write
The document.write statement was an essential part of early JavaScripts but is now completely unnecessary as anything that can be done with document.write can be done better using innerHTML.
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A Quick Guide to Using Child Nodes in Java
The property allowing us to access the nodes contained within the current node is actually a nodelist since a node can of course contain more than one node.
Expanding and Shrinking Text Banner
Create an attention grabbing text banner on your page by having the text expand and then shrink to be replaced by the next line of text.
Extended Tooltip
How to create fancy tooltips that work with most browsers using Javascript.
Scrolling Ad
This script displays an ad over your web page which moves slowly from side to side across the page until it has either crossed the page a specified number of times or the mouse pointer is moved over the ad. Once it has crossed the page the specified number of times the ad disappears.
Pop Up Menus
The Javascript tooltip script can be modified to produce popup menus.
Overlay Messages and Ads
Similar to the Javascript Tooltip Script, this script will place a message box temporarily over the top centre or top right of your page. Dare I suggest that it could contain advertising?
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