How do you put animated text on your homepage?

Question

I saw a group or two with animated text in thier group's description, how do I do this for my group?

Answer 1

The scrolling blue text is called a "marquee" which can be included in the html within the group's description. Use view source to see the code on that group's description.

Answer 2

i'm not sure what did u see on the group's description.

there are several ways in making animated text on a homepage & that includes in Y!Groups.

1) create an animated gif & put this image to your homepage using the <img> tags in your HTML. you can practically make it however you like it in animation. suggest that you use GIF Animator, an easy software, but there're others that you can use too. there's an online tool that could make you instant ani-gif, e.g. http://www.flamingtext.com & http://www.3dtextmaker.com/image_editor....

2) use java script. it might be a little bit complicated, but try search from the web for ready code to copy. here goes 2 samples for you:

http://www.flooble.com/scripts/animate.p...

http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/scri...

3) if you're familiar with flash/macromedia, you can make an swf file to animate the text & you can put additional linking or interactive response to your text too. but you'll need a flash creator software, like macromedia.

4) if you'll settle with only the text scrolling across the page, use <marquee> tags in your HTML, add parameter like behavior (alternate or loop). but take note that not all browser supports this tags & even new IE has abandaoned it.

5) if you'd like the text to blink, use <blink> tags in your HTML. but take note that this is the old Netscape only code, it may not work on other browser.

Good Luck!