When I was looking around on the internet for inspiration on something to blog about I discovered this:
This is a tutorial on using fade effects in your website with a Ajax kit you can download called Scriptaculous. This Ajax kit is really pretty cool. You can do tons of stuff with it. I did a couple of examples myself which you can see here if you want to take a look! But what I did here is just a couple things that can be done with it.
This kit gives you the ability to do almost anything you could want to do to text or images on your page: anything from the fade and shut off effects I used in my example page to making elements appear and disapear by sliding in and out. It can also move elements across the page or make them shake and move but go back to their original position. You can find demos of lots of things it can do here. The kit is also easy to modify to your liking with effective comments throughout the script telling you what does what. Also not all the .js files are necessary for every page you make. If all you want is to make controls on your page, then all you need to link to in your code is controls.js.
The kit is easy to use and can come in real handy. I know I’ll be using it more often now. If you think it sounds like something you might use, give it a try. It’s free so it’s not like you’ll be loosing anything if you decide you don’t like it.
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