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| The Easy Way to Keep Text Moving |
| You've found the perfect art for your website and you want the image and the text to be the same height, but you have a great deal of text to include. You want the art and the banner of your page to always be visible so your customers will be looking at your name throughout their stay on the page. You also don't want your customer to have to use the browser scroll bar because -- honestly -- it's just so ugly. Is there a solution to the problem? |
| Yes, you can use a Javascript Vertical Scroller, an elegant and easy solution to make sure all your requirements are met. |
| Pros |
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Easy to create, easy to update, easy to edit. |
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Seven base styles, from traditional dragbar arrows with controls on the right to minimalist text-only controls at the bottom, that can be customized to reflect your site's theme. |
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Five different animations styles: normal (this column), looping, auto-reverse (left column), carousel, and carousel with auto-reverse. |
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The height of the scoll box can be controlled so it is never taller than you want. |
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The auto-scroller speed can be set so it displays at the speed you want. |
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The manual scrolling speed can be set so it displays at the speed you want. |
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Scroller has auto-play, down, and up buttons, plus a drag bar for manual operation. |
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The scrolling action can be stopped during mouse hover over the text. |
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The scrolling action can be set to auto-start on page load and includes a delay length of your choice before the scrolling action starts. |
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Includes a Show All link that toggles between the scroller and a tall text box (not shown). |
| Cons |
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Unless all automatic scroller animation is disabled, should not be used on the same page as Flash animation because the two animation processors will conflict. |
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The color for the Show All text will be the same color as Dreamweaver-set up text link unless pseudo-styles are set up for text-page links. This takes a bit more time for initial page creation. |
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The Show All link includes a sizable space above it (as shown) so if tight spacing is your requirement, consider leaving off the Show All link. |