JavaScript

Javascript goes beyond regular HTML and into some programming. I won't, and can't, teach you how to create Javascripts, seeing how it's way over my head, but since they do bring a certain level of sophistication to any web page, here are some javascripts that I have learned that you might want to place on your page. I would recommend that you simply copy and paste the javascript since they are extremely case and space sensitive.

OnMouseover/OnMouseout
An Example where placing your mouse over the link will make a message appear on the status bar -- at the bottom of the window. An as a side note, the link doesn't go anywhere.	(The JavaScript) <a href="a link" onmouseover="window.status='Click on me'; return true;"onmouseout="window.status=' ';"> text or image </a>

This is the Javascript that is used to produce alerts, onmouseover that is. The more common one, onclick is below. An Example. And again, the link goes nowhere.	(The JavaScript) <a href="a link" onmouseover="alert('This Is An Alert')">text or image </a>

This uses onMouseover to change the image src. Example: The image seen first is the first image, the second image is the image shown with a mouseover.	(The JavaScript) <a href="a link" onmouseover="document.name.src='second image';" onmouseout="document.name.src='first image'"> <img src=first image border=0 name=name > </a>

OnClick
This is An Example of an alert with onclick instead of onmouseover. You have to click the broken link to see the alert.	(The JavaScript) <a href="a link" onclick="alert('An Alert with OnClickt')">text or image </a>

Clock
	(THE JAVASCRIPT) <BODY onLoad="startclock()"> <script language="javascript"> timerID=null; timerRunning = false; function stopclock() { if(timerRunning) clearTimeout(timerID); timerRunning=false; } function startclock() { stopclock(); showtime(); } function showtime() { now= new Date(); hours = now.getHours(); minutes=now.getMinutes(); seconds=now.getSeconds(); timevalue=""+((hours>12) ? hours - 12:hours); timevalue+=((minutes<10) ? ":0":":") + minutes; timevalue+=((seconds<10) ? ":0":":") + seconds; document.clock.face.value=timevalue; timerID = setTimeout ("showtime()",1000); timerRunning=true; } </script> <form name="clock" onsubmit="0"> <input type=text name=face size=11 value= "......Initializing...."> </form> </body>

There is something called Java. It is NOT the same thing as JavaScript. Javascript is much more sophisticated, but on the other hand Java is a lot more fun :). The "reflection" picture seen on the right uses lake.class, one of the most well-known Java Applets.

This and many other free Java Applets can be downloaded from http://www.spigots.com. Included in the small download is an instructional HTML document that teaches you the HTML code for embedding an Applet into your page and also how to adjust the avaliable parameters of the Applet to suit your own tastes.

This is the last page of this tutorial; I truly hope that it has been of some help. Even though people can create web pages without knowing a single word of HTML, it's still very beneficial to actually learn HTML and very much professionally prefered to create web pages the hard way. This is especially true since no current HTML composer can provide complete control over all the details on a web page.