<script> <!-- Beginning of JavaScript - // CREDITS: // GreetingSnake 2 by Urs Dudli and Peter Gehrig // Copyright (c) 2000 Peter Gehrig and Urs Dudli. All rights reserved. // Permission given to use the script provided that this notice remains as is. // Additional scripts can be found at http://www.24fun.com // info@24fun.com // 1/18/2001 // IMPORTANT: // If you add this script to a script-library or a script-archive // you have to insert a link to http://www.24fun.com right into the webpage where the script // will be displayed. // CONFIGURATION: // your message. A long message will slow down the effect var your_message="HI VISITOR" // font-family var messagefont="Verdana" // font-size var messagesize=9 // font-color var messagecolor="FF0000" // font-weight (boldness). Set it to a value between 1 and 9 var messageboldness=1 // the height of the ticker (pixels) var tickerheight=90 // the width of the ticker (pixels) var tickerwidth=500 // scroller's distance to the left margin of the browser-window (pixels) var tickerleftposition=100 // scroller's distance to the top margin of the browser-window (pixels) var tickertopposition=10 // speed var tempo=50 // average horizontal distance between the letters var stepx=9 // average vertical distance between the letters var stepy=9 // do not edit the variables below var msg=new Array() var msg=your_message var message=msg.split("") var numberofletters=msg.length-1 var x,y messageboldness=messageboldness*100 var timer var xpos=new Array() var ypos=new Array() var spancontent=new Array() if (document.all) { for (i=0;i<=numberofletters;i++) { spancontent[i]="<span style='position:relative;font-family:"+messagefont+";font-size:"+messagesize+"pt;color:"+messagecolor+";font-weight:"+messageboldness+"'>"+message[i]+"</span>" } } function setValues() { if (document.all) { for (i=0;i<=numberofletters;i++) { xpos[i]=tickerwidth-3 ypos[i]=tickerheight-3 var thisspan = eval("document.all.span"+i) thisspan.innerHTML=spancontent[i] var thisspan = eval("document.all.span"+(i)+".style") thisspan.posLeft=tickerwidth-3 thisspan.posTop=tickerheight-3 thisspan.visibility="visible" } moveball() } } function randommaker(range) { rand=Math.floor(range*Math.random()) return rand } function moveball() { if (document.all) { checkposition() makesnake() document.all.span0.style.posTop+=stepy timer=setTimeout("moveball()",tempo) } } function makesnake() { for (i=numberofletters; i>=1; i--) { xpos[i]=xpos[i-1] ypos[i]=ypos[i-1] } if (document.all) { xpos[0]=document.all.span0.style.posLeft+stepx ypos[0]=document.all.span0.style.posTop+stepy for (i=0;i<=numberofletters;i++) { var thisspan=eval("document.all.span"+(i)+".style") thisspan.posLeft=xpos[i] thisspan.posTop=ypos[i] } } } function checkposition() { if (document.all) { if (document.all.span0.style.posLeft>tickerwidth) { stepx=(stepx+randommaker(2))*-1 document.all.span0.style.posLeft-=1 } if (document.all.span0.style.posLeft<tickerleftposition) { stepx=(stepx+randommaker(2))*-1 document.all.span0.style.posLeft+=1 } if (document.all.span0.style.posTop>tickerheight) { stepy=(stepy+randommaker(2))*-1 document.all.span0.style.posTop-=1 } if (document.all.span0.style.posTop<tickertopposition) { stepy=(stepy+randommaker(2))*-1 document.all.span0.style.posTop+=1 } } } for (i=0;i<=numberofletters;i++) { document.write("<span id='span"+i+"' style='position:absolute;;visibility:hidden'></span>") document.close() } window.onload=setValues // - End of JavaScript - --> </script>