How to Create Your Own Dancing Text

HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN DANCING TEXT

Want your own dancing text on your page?

Well it's easy!

Here's how to do it:

1. Download the "sntext.zip" by clicking here
2. Unzip the sntext.zip
3. Extract and Save "SNSineText.class" on the same directory where your page html resides
4. Copy and paste the code below to your HTML page source and edit it according to your requirements
5. Upload your html page and "SNSineText.class" on the same directory at your server.

To understand above text and modify it according to your requirements, follow these steps

select text for your banner and replace its value in the following tag.

<PARAM name = text      value = "WELCOME to NewbieHangout.com">

Select the TextColor for your text and replace its value in the following tag.

<PARAM name = TextColor value = "rycwopg rB cy rcwg ryBp">

Following table will help you to understand the symbols used in above tag.
for example : To select the red color for all characters of text you can use
<PARAM name = TextColor value = "rrrrrrr rr rr rrrr rrrr">

Color	Symbol	Color	Symbol
Black	b	Light Gray	l
Blue	B	Magenta	m
Cyan	c	Orange	o
Dark Gray	d	Pink	p
Gray	G	Red	r
Green	g	White	w
		Yellow	y

Select the BackColor (background color) for your text and replace its value in the following tag. (use above table for reference)

<PARAM name = BackColor value = "b">

Select the FontName for your text and replace its value in the following tag

<PARAM name = FontName  value = "TimesRoman">

you can use:
1. value = "TimesRoman"
2. value = "San Serif"
3. value = "Helvetica"

Select the FontStyle for your text and replace its value in the following tag

<PARAM name = FontStyle value = "Bold">

you can use any one of these:
1. value = "Plain"
2. value = "Bold"
3. value = "Italic"
4. value = "Plain+Italic"
5. value = "Bold+Italic"
6. value = "Plain+Bold"
7. value = "Plain+Bold+Italic"

Select the FontSize for your text and replace its value in the following tag

<PARAM name = FontSize  value = "24">

you can use any FontSize for example
value = "20"

Next you have to select Amplitude Offset and GapSize and replace the values in the following tags.

<PARAM name = Offset    value = "15">
<PARAM name = GapSize   value = "5">
<PARAM name = Amplitude value = "20">

where
1. Offset is the horizontal distance from the start of applet display area to the first character
of text or distance from last character of text to the end of applet display area .
2. GapSize is the gap between two consecutive characters.
3. Amplitude is the maximum distance from mid horizontal line to a point up to which
a mid point of character can lift in the vertical direction.

See the following applet:

Calculate the WIDTH and HEIGHT for your applet and replace the values in the following tag

    <APPLET CODE="SNSineText.class" WIDTH=577 HEIGHT=71>

You can use following applet to calculate the WIDTH and HEIGHT (use the same parameter that you have selected for your applet)

You can select multiple entries from Font Style list.
Note: You can also determine values of WIDTH and HEIGHT parameter by trial and error method.
Example:

The HTML tags used for above Applet are given as:

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