Figure 12-21: Adding a transition to your page in Java

Draw QR in Java Figure 12-21: Adding a transition to your page

2 For the transition that kicks in when the visitor enters your page, choose a transition effect from the Enter Effect list 3 Specify the speed of the Page Enter transition in the Enter Time list 4 Use the Exit Effect drop-down menu to declare the effect you want to have kick in when the page is exited 5 Specify the speed of the Page Exit transition in the Exit Time list 6 Click OK to save the effect The IE Page Transitions icon in the Page Effects pane stores your effect settings You can choose among over 25 page transitions In trying to decide which ones look best, experiment To do so, double-click an icon in the Page Effects pane to display the IE Page Transitions Properties dialog box Choose a different transition effect, and click OK Then preview the page by pressing F12 Repeat for as many of these transitions as you wish

Multimedia elements and page effects are a great way to add life to your Web site and can be a breath of fresh air to an otherwise dull and lifeless Web presence However, exactly how much you should use the Wow Factor on your public Web site depends largely on the site s purposes If you have a personal or family site, go for it In general, you can be as creative and artistic as you like for your friends and family who frequent it If they become annoyed by anything, they probably know you personally and can complain about it However, if you re designing a Web site for a business or other organization, you have many more factors to consider

A video or audio file can be an effective way to communicate with visitors on your site However, multimedia files always are expensive in terms of their size, so be careful in how you use them This reality is not always easy to realize when you test your site on your local machine (where transmission speed is a nonissue) or if you personally have a high-speed connection to the Internet However, always consider the dialup visitor to your site, and be sensitive to the exponentially longer times downloading any kind of multimedia data takes Given that reality, always allow a site visitor to initiate the playing of a large multimedia file Frankly, in most situations, unless the file is under 100K, I recommend not enabling Autostart In addition, you ll want to avoid automatically playing an audio clip when the visitor comes to your Web page Just say no Cheesy background music cheapens the impact of the site and probably chases more people away from sites than any other single annoyance

If you are designing a Web site for your company or organization, you ll usually want to steer away from using page effects Yes, they are fun and can add pizzazz to your Web site, but they re almost always inappropriate for normal business usage As nifty as they may be, many visitors coming to your site will find them distracting, annoying, and unprofessional the online equivalent of plastic gnomes in the middle of your front lawn And, just as you won t find any cute little gnomes in front of the corporate headquarters of Microsoft or Toyota, you re not going to find a flyby or page transition at their Web sites

Above all, don t add Text Tail or Image Tail effects to any site that you wouldn t also be willing to put a we want to annoy you just for the heck of it banner on your home page However, some of the effects could be perfectly acceptable for business Web sites in certain occasions Suppose, for example, a section of your Web site is used as a slide-like presentation showing off your products or services much like a PowerPoint presentation might look In this scenario, SiteBuilder page effects can be an effective, creative way of presenting the information to the visitor and transitioning between slides