How to Create Special Effects on Your Website, Even If You Don't Know Code

The Secret is Using JavaScript

By Mike White, published Sep 18, 2006
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You can create special effects on your business or personal website. The special effects can include such things as a calendar, a calculator, falling snow, animation, or any number of other effects. You can create the special effects even if you do not know a thing about or HTML or JavaScript. You can do this even if someone else designed your website or you used an existing template that someone at a webhost created.

There are a lot of ways to create the special effects, but one of the easiest is using JavaScript. You can use it even if you didn't study it in college, even if you don't understand it. I am not saying it would not be helpful to understand it. I am not saying you might never run into a technical problem. If that happens, however, just redo the whole process, and it might work the next time. I am not saying you could not use the code better if you did. I am saying, however, as long as you have access to the code and know or are told where to put it, and you save any changes to your website, you can use JavaScript.

The one thing you will have to have is access to the HTML code on your website. You will also have to have the ability to change it or to add the JavaScript to the HTML code. If you do, you will be able to create the special effects, even if someone else designed your website, or even if you did, through using an existing template that someone else created. If that is how you created your website, you may not understand HTML, or any other kind of Web programming language, but you can still use JavaScript.

Much of the free code you can find online to enhance your website is free, although the creators may require you to give credit to those who created the JavaScript. Some of the many things you can create on your website with JavaScript are: calculator, a prompt asking the name or other information from someone visiting your site, games, the time and date, form effects, text animation, falling snow, a script that will allow you to figure out what day of the week you were born, and a variety of other special effects.

Takeaways
  • You can create special effects on your website.
  • You can create the special effects even if you don't know or understand HTML.
  • You can create the effects using JavaScript.
Did You Know?
Many websites give free JavaScript and even show how to add it to a website.
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A very elegant "Image Reflection" effect caught my eye today when I was browsing around the Internet, and I would like to share my findings with you. Examples of images with "reflection" effect: http://www.featurepics.com/Editorial/Image-Reflection-Special-Effect.aspx The script that is used to make this "reflection" effect is freely distributable under the MIT-style license.

Posted on 03/05/2007 at 3:03:00 PM

 
A very elegant "Image Reflection" effect caught my eye today when I was browsing around the Internet, and I would like to share my findings with you. Examples of images with "reflection" effect: http://www.featurepics.com/Editorial/Image-Reflection-Special-Effect.aspx The script that is used to make this "reflection" effect is freely distributable under the MIT-style license.

Posted on 03/05/2007 at 3:03:00 PM

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