Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Put Your HTML Page Online Today
  • I. Your First Web Page
  • Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
  • Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
  • Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
  • Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
  • II. Web Page Text
  • Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
  • Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
  • III. Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
  • Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
  • Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
    • Software for Making Web Page Animations
    • Creating the Pictures You Want to Animate
    • Assembling the Pictures into an Animation
    • Putting a GIF Animation onto a Web Page
    • Generating Transitions and Text Effects
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • IV. Web Page Design
  • Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
  • Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
  • Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
  • Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
  • V. Dynamic Web Pages
  • Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
  • Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
  • Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
  • Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
  • VI. Building a Web Site
  • Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
  • Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
  • Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
  • Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
  • VII. Appendixes
  • A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
  • B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
  • C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
  • D. HTML Character Entities

Generating Transitions and Text Effects

Animation Shop (like some other GIF animation programs) can do much more than just collect multiple GIF images into a single animation file. It can also generate some impressive special effects and even create scrolling text banners all by itself. There's not room in this book to explain in detail how to use these features, but they're easy enough that you can probably pick it up on your own with a little help from the Animation Shop online help system.

Just to get you started, Figures 12.11 and 12.12 show how I made the two bottom animations shown in Figure 12.10. One uses the Effects, Image Transitions feature to dissolve between a picture of the word ATTENTION and a picture of the word WARNING. (I made these two pictures in Paint Shop Pro ahead of time.) The other uses Effects, Text Transitions to scroll the words NO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION PLEASE smoothly across a white background. This didn't require any images at all, since the text transition effects generate their own pictures of the text as they do their magic.

Figure 12.11 Use Effects, Image Transitions to generate fades, wipes, dissolves, and other automatic transitions between images

Figure 12.12 Use Effects, Text Transitions to generate moving text and special-effect text over a frame or a set of frames.

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