Category: Energizing pages with animations and effects

Human cognitive ability being what it is, making items pop into and out of existence instantaneously can be jarring. If you blink at the wrong moment, you could miss the transition, leaving you to wonder, “What just happened?” Gradual transitions of a short duration help you know what’s changing and how you got from one…

Perhaps the most common type of dynamic effect you’ll want to perform on one or more elements is the simple act of showing or hiding them. We’ll get to more fancy animations in a bit, but sometimes you just want to keep it simple and pop elements into existence or make them instantly vanish! The…

This lesson covers In the early days of the web, the capabilities afforded to page authors were severely limited, not only by the minimal APIs but also by the sluggishness of scripting engines and low-powered systems. The idea of using these limited abilities for animation and effects was laughable, and for years the only animation…