FREE Ebook - Easy Visual Effects to Spice Up Your Webpage

Starting with version 4.0, Microsoft began implementing functions in Internet Explorer that let you use some very interesting visual effects on your Web page. With the release of Internet Explorer 5.5, these effects included filters, transitions, and Vector Markup Language.

Filters are the easiest visual effects to create. Using some very simple style notation, you can implement the effects on your Webpage. In this ebook, I explain how to use filters to add interesting visual effects to your Webpage. To make learning easier, I keep the code to bare bones minimum. My goal is to make the code easy for you to understand and modify to create your own custom visual effects.

 To make the effects most impressive, you need to understand how to use hexadecimal color notation. This ebook gives you that information.

Using a few simple lines of Java Script code you create dynamic visual effects that rival Flash, without the high cost and excessive download time. In this ebook, I show you how to animate many of the effects.

You'll learn how to add these interesting effects to your web page by copying and pasting just a few lines of code:

 Glow
 Shadow
 Motion Blur
 Gradient
 Drop Shadow
 Wave
 Alpha
 Emboss

 You also get the code for "Rotate". In the next update I'm going to modify this code so that when the user moves their mouse pointer over a button, the button rotates one revolution and then loads another page.

To use this ebook you can cut and paste code directly from the pages in the ebook. The ebook also contains all the examples and graphic files used with the examples in a zip file which you can extract from the ebook.