How to Create Special Effects on Your Website, Even If You Don’t Know Code
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.
Just one example of a calculator you could put on your website is a child math tutor. The script will create a tutor that will allow the student to enter his or her name and click on addition, multiplication, subtraction, or division. The student will then choose the type of number set, either 0’s, 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s, 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, or random. The student will then enter the equation, such as 2 X 9. The student will enter his or her answer and then click check answer. The program will either say the answer was correct or incorrect.
The website that has this particular calculator, which can be added to a website for free, gives instructions on how to add the JavaScript to a website. There is JavaScript to be added, but the website gives simple instructions for adding it, instructions that are simple for even those who don’t understand the code, as the code can be copied and pasted. The main thing is to add the script between the and tags in the script. The tags are easy to find, because the head tags come at the beginning of the script. If there are tags, paste the script after the first title script, before the second. The page must then be saved.
For this particular script, there is also HTML script to be copied and pasted, and there are instructions for that too. It must be pasted between the two tags. The second comes near the end of all script, but the first comes much earlier, after the head tags. After both sets of script are added, save the changes, and you will have a calculator on your website.
Other calculators on that site include a credit card minimum payment interest calculator, a debt investment calculator, a lifetime savings calculator, and others.
Websites that offer free JavaScript usually give instructions on adding it to your website.
Some websites that offer JavaScript include: www.bellsnwhistles.com, www.javascriptinternet.com, www.dynamicdrive.com, www.thefreesite.com, www.java-scripts.net, and www.freejavascripts.com. You can search the sites for the types of script offered or do a search on a search engine. List the type of special effects you would like. Somebody, somewhere, has probably created such a script and offers it for free.
You can do a lot to enhance your website, using JavaScript-even if you have little or no technical knowledge.
