INTRODUCTION This tutorial assumes some familiarity with Cascading Style Sheet and DHTML. Cascading Style Sheet-Level 2 (CSS2) allows for cursor alterations.  The appearance of the cursor can be altered by setting the cursor property of anelement‘s style-sheet.  (An element is an html object, such as a <table>, an <img>, or a <div> section on the html […]

Setting Icons for Your Web Site For Bookmarks and Favorites This tutorial is tested with Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, and Opera 9.2 on Windows XP. Setting Icons for Your Site Icons are used for Bookmarks (or Favorites in Internet Explorer) and appear in the browser’s address bar. The standard icons look like these: Firefox: […]

Definition Client-Pull refers to a technique that enables a browser/client to request (or “pull”) data from the server automatically without the user-intervention. The key property here is “without user-intervention.”  If not for  this attribute, then the term is meaningless because it will be no different than when an user enters an URL to request a […]

   What are these HTTP protocol status codes? Whenever a browser request data from a web server, the server must respond with a number.  The number indicates the status of the request (whether it has failed or successful, etc).  The number is taken from a set of codes called the HTTP protocol status codes.  HTTP […]

Tip 1: How to make some text links appear in different color from what is defined in BODY tag. The trick is to put the <FONT COLOR> tags inside the <A> tags like below: <A HREF=”link.html”><FONT COLOR=”#FF00FF”>Link</FONT></A> If you have the <FONT COLOR> tags outside the <A> tag (such as below), then it will not […]

The built in Image object in Java is very nice.  One thing you might not know already is that Java already support animated-gif.  There are times however, when things might not seem to work correctly.  For example: The gif only displays the first frame and never animates The gif only animates when the application/applet repaints. […]

BACKGROUND The Image object in Java is very nice.  It handles many details for you and it is sufficient for most programming tasks; however, there are times when you might want to be able to access the pixel data within an Image object.  For example: To change the transparent color key To swap a color […]

Introduction This is a pseudo 3D text effect that can be accomplished by using gradient fill and tweening. Step 1 Create a new movie, then type a text.  I recommend using a bold font, size 50 or bigger. Step 2 Break apart the text object into curves by doing Modify->Curves->Break Apart.   The reason we do […]