Sunday, June 10, 2001

 

Hello!  I hope you are having a wonderful week!  Here is the this week's news from  

The Creative Spirit.

 

 

Thank you very much for your response to the style of newsletter we will have at The Creative Spirit.  It is unanimous:  web-style won out!  

I have archived many of the old TCS newsletters and you can view them here.   There are some issues missing because I had not kept them around.  Others I left out simply because there was not a lot of news in them.   These newsletter pages are for members only and are not linked to the public TCS website, so please bookmark the archive page for your own reference.  Thanks.

By the way, please don't feel concerned if you are not able to contribute much time to TCS.  Some people have said they are too busy to offer their time or expertise, or files, but that they still wish to be members, and wish to receive the newsletter.  That's perfectly fine!  We are all very busy it seems.  For myself, I am obliged say that I'm in way too many Internet organizations to devote any proper amount of time to any of them.  If your circumstances change and you can contribute more we will be delighted; and if not, we are still very happy to have you with us.

 

 

We have a new member!  Please welcome Doris Rickard to The Creative Spirit.  Doris has written some very moving poetry and you can read this, and learn a little more about her, at her website at:  http://members.tripod.com/dee_k7k  Its nice to have you here, Doris!

 

 

One of our members just got himself a new digital camera and promises to post some great photos to his website.  We're looking forward to seeing them--soon, Redhawk!!!

 

 

For those of you who like the 'Butterfly script' on the newsletter archive page, I will include it at the end of this letter.  Its very simple:  just a one-step copy/paste operation.  You will need to download the butterfly too, and save it to your hard drive, of course.  Have fun!

 

 

If you're wanting to find out more about optimizing your website for search engines try this URL:  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/23/index1a.html  There is enough information here to keep you reading for awhile!  Some new and interesting ideas.

 

Napster is gone... but Bear Share is here!  For those who like to download MP3 files and have missed getting their music fix, you can get back into the swing at www.bearshare.com   This little program gets top ratings at CNET and is very easy to use.  It spins off the Gnutella network, which has been around for quite awhile, and is reliable.  My only complaint is that there are busy signals and one sometimes has to do a lot of searching to find an available line.  

 

 

Warm Wishes,

Cheyenne

The Creative Spirit
 www.oocities.org/thecreativespirit2001

thecreativespirit2001@yahoo.com

 

 

Here is your Butterfly script....

                                   ...and don't forget to download the butterfly!

 

Step 1: Add the following into the <body> section of your page, at the very end (ie: right above </body>)::

 

 

<script language="JavaScript1.2">

 

/*
Flying Butterfly script (By BGAudioDr@aol.com)
Modified slightly/ permission granted to Dynamic Drive to feature script in archive
For full source, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
*/

 

var Ymax=8;                                //MAX # OF PIXEL STEPS IN THE "X" DIRECTION
var Xmax=8;                                //MAX # OF PIXEL STEPS IN THE "Y" DIRECTION
var Tmax=10000;                        //MAX # OF MILLISECONDS BETWEEN PARAMETER CHANGES

 

//FLOATING IMAGE URLS FOR EACH IMAGE. ADD OR DELETE ENTRIES. KEEP ELEMENT NUMERICAL ORDER STARTING WITH "0" !!

 

var floatimages=new Array();
floatimages[0]='butterfly2.gif';
floatimages[1]='butterfly2.gif';

 

//*********DO NOT EDIT BELOW***********
var NS4 = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 && parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) < 5)? true : false;
var IE4 = (document.all)? true : false;
var NS6 = (parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) >= 5 && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 )? true: false;
var wind_w, wind_h, t='', IDs=new Array();
for(i=0; i<floatimages.length; i++){
t+=(NS4)?'<layer name="pic'+i+'" visibility="hide" width="10" height="10"><a href="javascript:hidebutterfly()">' : '<div id="pic'+i+'" style="position:absolute; visibility:hidden;width:10px; height:10px"><a href="javascript:hidebutterfly()">';
t+='<img src="'+floatimages[i]+'" name="p'+i+'" border="0">';
t+=(NS4)? '</a></layer>':'</a></div>';
}
document.write(t);

 

function moveimage(num){
if(getidleft(num)+IDs[num].W+IDs[num].Xstep >= wind_w+getscrollx())IDs[num].Xdir=false;
if(getidleft(num)-IDs[num].Xstep<=getscrollx())IDs[num].Xdir=true;
if(getidtop(num)+IDs[num].H+IDs[num].Ystep >= wind_h+getscrolly())IDs[num].Ydir=false;
if(getidtop(num)-IDs[num].Ystep<=getscrolly())IDs[num].Ydir=true;
moveidby(num, (IDs[num].Xdir)? IDs[num].Xstep :  -IDs[num].Xstep , (IDs[num].Ydir)?  IDs[num].Ystep:  -IDs[num].Ystep);
}

 

function getnewprops(num){
IDs[num].Ydir=Math.floor(Math.random()*2)>0;
IDs[num].Xdir=Math.floor(Math.random()*2)>0;
IDs[num].Ystep=Math.ceil(Math.random()*Ymax);
IDs[num].Xstep=Math.ceil(Math.random()*Xmax)
setTimeout('getnewprops('+num+')', Math.floor(Math.random()*Tmax));
}

 

function getscrollx(){
if(NS4 || NS6)return window.pageXOffset;
if(IE4)return document.body.scrollLeft;
}

 

function getscrolly(){
if(NS4 || NS6)return window.pageYOffset;
if(IE4)return document.body.scrollTop;
}

 

function getid(name){
if(NS4)return document.layers[name];
if(IE4)return document.all[name];
if(NS6)return document.getElementById(name);
}

 

function moveidto(num,x,y){
if(NS4)IDs[num].moveTo(x,y);
if(IE4 || NS6){
IDs[num].style.left=x+'px';
IDs[num].style.top=y+'px';
}}

 

function getidleft(num){
if(NS4)return IDs[num].left;
if(IE4 || NS6)return parseInt(IDs[num].style.left);
}

 

function getidtop(num){
if(NS4)return IDs[num].top;
if(IE4 || NS6)return parseInt(IDs[num].style.top);
}

 

function moveidby(num,dx,dy){
if(NS4)IDs[num].moveBy(dx, dy);
if(IE4 || NS6){
IDs[num].style.left=(getidleft(num)+dx)+'px';
IDs[num].style.top=(getidtop(num)+dy)+'px';
}}

 

function getwindowwidth(){
if(NS4 || NS6)return window.innerWidth;
if(IE4)return document.body.clientWidth;
}

 

function getwindowheight(){
if(NS4 || NS6)return window.innerHeight;
if(IE4)return document.body.clientHeight;
}

 

function init(){
wind_w=getwindowwidth();
wind_h=getwindowheight();
for(i=0; i<floatimages.length; i++){
IDs[i]=getid('pic'+i);
if(NS4){
IDs[i].W=IDs[i].document.images["p"+i].width;
IDs[i].H=IDs[i].document.images["p"+i].height;
}
if(NS6 || IE4){
IDs[i].W=document.images["p"+i].width;
IDs[i].H=document.images["p"+i].height;
}
getnewprops(i);
moveidto(i , Math.floor(Math.random()*(wind_w-IDs[i].W)), Math.floor(Math.random()*(wind_h-IDs[i].H)));
if(NS4)IDs[i].visibility = "show";
if(IE4 || NS6)IDs[i].style.visibility = "visible";
startfly=setInterval('moveimage('+i+')',Math.floor(Math.random()*100)+100);
}}

 

function hidebutterfly(){
for(i=0; i<floatimages.length; i++){
if (IE4)
eval("document.all.pic"+i+".style.visibility='hidden'")
else if (NS6)
document.getElementById("pic"+i).style.visibility='hidden'
else if (NS4)
eval("document.pic"+i+".visibility='hide'")
clearInterval(startfly)
}
}

 

if (NS4||NS6||IE4){
window.onload=init;
window.onresize=function(){ wind_w=getwindowwidth(); wind_h=getwindowheight(); }
}

 

</script>

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