Terry Pinnell said:
Nice! It may be simple to most here, but I'm sure I'd struggle to do
something similar. A brief para on what steps were involved would be
good tutorial material for me if you ever find time please. Looking at
source, I see the 'frames disclaimer'. Does that need I need frames
before I could do this? (That's a topic still on my longer term To
Master list.)
Tom: I wondered why my browsing has been so peaceful lately; prompted
by your post I now have 'Play sounds in web pages' enabled again!
I used an inline frame so the "snow flakes" would stay
"inside the window"
Page 1 or "index" page that initially loads:
Open a blank page, click Insert > Inline Frame.
Right click once on the iframe, select iframe properties
and set the height, width, scrollbar settings and set the style
you want and click ok. Then right click a blank area of the page
outside of the iframe, select page properties and insert the
background image. ( in this case the candles image )
Page 2, set up the page with whatever you want,
in this case it is a table with a background image.
( thanks for the note Stefan, I'll fix it )
The snow flakes ( there are 5 different ones and
there should be a total of 100 visible at any one time,
I was going to make it 441 flakes for a specific reason
but most video adapters can't handle that many )
are controlled by a javascript .js file named flakes.js
( written by Kurt Grigg, a fellow from your side of the pond )
the js file is called by:
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src="flakes.js">
</script>
in the head tags and is launched by
<body onload="fall()"> which starts the
javascript function: fall() when the page loads.
The two html files, the 5 flakes, .js file and the midi
file are all contained in the folder named card.
The "main page is named index.htm so a browser
will default to it when ever the card folder is "browsed."
You can find all of the files in your browser cache files,
there's nothing proprietary.
