Graphics - Building a Card - All Examples

In this one, I took four (4) images of our dogs, and using exact copies, added wording using MCIC's Word Art function. Then, using FrontPage and creating a "mini-site" on my computer, I created a simple HTML page for each of the eight (8) images, with a dissolve transition between each. I loaded the "site" into a zip file, being sure the paths to the files were included. (I could have saved worrying about the path if I'd have kept the images and the HTML in the same folder, but I didn't, in this case.) Then I used WinZip's self-extractor creator, telling it where I wanted it to go when unzipped, and sent it with the following instructions.

Here are smaller versions of the images used. Clicking on any of these images will take you to the Example Card in a new window. The note in the above instructions may be necessary.

My first experiment and experience in animated graphics and creating an HTML card was in late 1999. I created a "Christmas Card" and linked to it from my father's business site's Home Page. I used MSIC to create graphic versions of a poem and song lyrics I had written. Each title, verse, and copyright was its own image. I found "Christmas-y" graphics out there in Internet-land, and put them all together.

You MUST remember, that back then, most screens did not have the resolution of today's screen, and I think the "card" was much easier to read than now-a-days. Remember, also (if you look at the HTML), I was learning as I went! Only the title and link have been changed from the original.

I have not included any thumbnails, here. To see the Image and HTML card, just click here. (Opens a new window. Simply close it to return here.)