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Any one think i should give this a shot

OK i had an idea for a sort of 'Matrix style' home page for a website.

1)The text appears letter by letter.
2)Full stops clear the screen then carry on typing
3)You can chose if you want to loop the text (just some text in a site)
4) or at the end load your main page (home page for a site)

let me know if you think i should give it a try

OK ill give it a shot here is what ive got so far

<html>

<head>

<title>MATRIX TEXT!</title>

<script src="matrix.js"></script>

</head>



<body bgcolor=#000000>





<font color="green">

<span id="blah">This Script was created by   .Alias   .Do Not Remove commenting   . c[dot]alias[dot]s@hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk</span>

</font>



<script language="javascript">



/****************************

*THIS MUST NOT BE DELETED

*(c) .Alias.

*Contact c.alias.s@hotmail.co.uk

****************************/



/****************************

*Controls time between each Char.

*Change To Suit You

****************************/



beginTxt("blah", "", 100);



</script>

This is just index.html

im working on matrix.js at the moment.

well ive finished matrix.js

function addC()

{

        string = string.replace(/<([^<])*>/, ""); // Prevents HTML tags from effecting the page



        if(x < string.length)

        {

                textBuffer += string.charAt(x);

                

                dot = string.charAt(x);          //Sets variable dot for checking

                

                if (dot == ".")           //Check for full stops in text

                {                          //If there is a full stop it           

                        textBuffer='';    //starts a clean page                

                }

                

                txt.innerHTML = textBuffer;

                x++;

                setTimeout('addC()', pause);

        }

        

        if (x == string.length)

        {

                if (home == "")

                {

                        x=0;

                        textBuffer = "";

                }

                else

                {

                setTimeout('reLoc()', (pause * 4)) // Send viewer to home page with pause to read text.

                }

        }



}



function reLoc()

{

        window.location = home;  // Send viewer to home page

}



function beginTxt(wanted, site, delay)

{

if (document.getElementById)

{

        home = site;

        pause = delay;

        txt = document.getElementById(wanted);

        

        if(txt.innerHTML)

        {

                textBuffer = " "; // Stops the loss of Spaces

                x = 0;

                string = txt.innerHTML;

                txt.innerHTML = " ";

                addC();

        }

}

}

To see these in action visit Go here, will send you to the second example

Looks nice. Shouldn't the text be a bit more "blocky" though?

Like this?

I don't know, I just think it gives it more of a matrix feel.

Yea i guess i could change that i never really thought about what the text looks like

Frankly, blackboards and green chalk and black screens and green text went out years ago in favor of white boards and erasable markers and tubes that had more than "green on/off" capabilities. A web page is a set of markup presenting material. Pleasing design is part of the job. Green on black (or red on black or black on black) is probably not perceived as pleasing by the majority of design buyers. If you must choose black for whatever reason, you probably should choose a brighter color, for contrast. Just an opinion, of course, and only the client's really counts.