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Java Script

ADD EXCITEMENT AND FUNCTIONALITY TO YOUR WEB SITE

You can add excitement and functionality to your web site by utilizing some Java Scripts, some of which are user friendly. So you must be careful about what you're using on your webpage.

BE CAREFUL

Take care when adding Java Scripts to your web site. Some can crash browsers and/or computers. Crash a visitor's system and they will never come back (unless they do a major upgrade). So test your scripts with a variety of different browsers and systems. In a perfect world a non-compatible script will be invisible. The user doesn't even know it's there. An error message is okay, as long as it doesn't cause the user's system to hang and still gives them the ability to navigate your site.

BE SELECTIVE

Be selective about what scripts you use. Don't put scripts into your site just because they're cool. Only use scripts that enhance your site, not clutter it with meaningless stuff. Ask yourself, "How can this make my site better?" If you can come up with a couple good answers, or one really good one, then it might be worth a try.

EXPERIMENTING CAN PRODUCE INTERACTIVITY

Interactivity is important to your site, and you can use your experimenting with Java Scripts as an opportunity to create interactivity by allowing your visitors to report to you how the scripts work, if they had any problems, and if they think that it makes your site better.

Free JAVA Script Resources

The JavaScript Source - One of the best resources we've seen on the Web for JavaScript, an increasingly popular progamming language used on the Net. This site offers lots of "cut & paste" JavaScript examples for your Web pages. Source codes included. Examples includes background effects, buttons, calculators, calendars, clocks, cookies, equivalents, folder trees, forms, games, messages, navigational scripts, page details, password protection, scrolls, user details and much more.
JAnimation - A free fully-functional demo Java tool that let you easily create fast-loading Java animations for your site. You can use it to make eye-catching banners and presentations. Registering it will remove a text line that plugs the product. (630 kilobytes: for Windows).
Free Java Calendar - This is a Web-based calendar application that works in any Java-enhanced browser. No additional software is needed to use the calendar. This program allows Web sites to organize and maintain online events, product release, news, appointments, advertisement and online schedules.
Freeware Applet FX - Offers an impressive, eye-catching collection of Java applets. This site offers a freeware version of its "Applet FX," package, which includes 20 applets and a "Visual Applet Configurator," a tool to help you customize the applets. (Note: you must have Windows to use the Configurator).
Ozzino Texter: a free Java tool - A free tool that allows you to display cool custom text animations on your Web site. Texter's special design allows you to add individual animation effects to each character. On top of all the text functions, with Texter you can add an image backdrop, add sound, create "hotspots" and much more.
Java Goodies - A huge Java & JavaScript repository. Categories include calendars, clocks, calculators, scrolling text buttons, links and E-mail, color scripts, alert boxes and prompts, games, counters, and much more. The site also features tutorials. From five to 10 new scripts are added each week.
LoonyVerse: Free Java Games for your Web Site - Here's a good way to give your site's regulars another reason to visit: free games in Java and JavaScript format that you can download in .ZIP format for inclusion on your page.
Java Machine - This popular site features "The Java Machine," which allows you to make your own custom, eye-catching Java applets for your Web site.
Gamelan.com - A massive Java & JavaScript resource. Not necessarily a source for free Java stuff, although freebies abound here. This is a fun site to browse to learn about the eye-popping things they're doing with Java nowadays. This programming language has definitely moved beyond the "scrolling text" applets phase. Categories here range from business & finance to entertainment to special effects to educational stuff and games. And yes, they do have scrolling text applets. Lots of them.
Java Video Decoder - Here's a cool applet that displays video files. The client doesn't need to download the whole video file before watching it. The client communicates with a video server and, using a "sliding window" protocol, shows the video in real-time.
Voodoo's Introduction to JavaScript - A good, thorough resource for learning JavaScript.
Java Developer Page - Lots of free applets to add various cool features and effects for your Web site that you can download here. Documention included. Nice site offered in both English and Italian. This site also offers a Java painting program, in which you can "paint" in real time and then save your work in "The Gallery." Applets available here include "plasma effect," "Fire effect," and "Waving Flag" (34 nations supported.)
Timothy's JavaScript Examples - This well-designed, fast-loading site has long been one of the Web's best places to score some snazzy Java-stuff for spicing up your page. Here, there's over 100 working free JavaScript examples with the source made easily available.
Cut'N'Paste JavaScript Web Site - This site (which requires visitors to use Netscape) contains over of 120 free client-side (no .cgi permissions needed!) JavaScripts for Web developers or folks building their own home pages. These scripts include picture puzzles, database searches, on-screen clocks and calendars, shopping days to Christmas, automatic sponsor rotators, screen color changers, URL country code selectors, calculators of all sorts, select form navigators, status line scrollers and other displays, animations and much, much more. The best part is not just that they are free, but that you can simply "cut" and "paste" them right into your HTML (for new Windows users, this means defining the text and then pressing "Control, C" to copy and then "Control, V" to paste). That's it. They are ready to run at your Web site immediately.
Earthweb's Jars.com - One of the top two or three Java sites on the Web, this great site offers tons of features, from Java news to a section for Java developers. Some of the Java applets are free and are indicated as such. Java applets are rated by "Top 1 Percent," "Top 5 Percent," etc. Categories include business, multimedia, Web sites, financial, science, utilities, games, programming and WWW tools.
Javascript Town - Excellent Javascript site. Lots of free JavaScripts and tutorials.
The Pop Up Menu Java Applet - This is a fully customizable Image Map applet with pop up sub-menus and interactive image displays. Quite useful and cool.
WebWerks - Nice free Java site. Categories include: FX, games, image, text, utilities and more.
JavaScript Planet - Over 300 JavaScript examples. Amazing variety; hours of fun browsing here.
JavaScript World - Lots of resources here: a discussion group, archives, a Q&A and JavaScript help.
JavaScript Tip of the Week - No longer updated, but still a useful resource, the JavaScript Tip of the Week archive is a collection of 30 coding tips with complete source code, working examples, and commentary.
24 Hour Javascripts - Great resource with over 13,000 free scripts. The site also features discussion groups, news and much more.

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