Javascript: Changing background colour dynamically

November 21st, 2008 by Ian O'Donnell

During the completion of a recent project I was working on I had to learn something I didn’t do before, this was allowing the user to change the colour of a html web page on the fly without reloading. It was actually quite tough to find the information I needed based on the method I wanted to use so I thought I would share the information here and give you an example of it too.

This works across all browsers but I am by no means saying this is the only or best or easiest way but it works and works well.

Ok first in our tag we’re just going to load our javascript file, easy if you have done it before, if not, it is quite similar to loading an external css file. So the code in our tag is as follows:

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<head>
 
    <title>Changing Colour</title>
 
    <script style="text/javascript" type="text/javascript" src="javascript.js">
 
</script></head>

In the example above, our page is called “Changing Colour”, our Javascript file is called “javascript.js and is stored in the same folder as our page. Also, we don’t have a css file but that’s not important for this example.

Ok so before we start on the page itself let’s just sort our Javascript file, create a new file called “javascript.js” and Read the rest of this entry »

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Creating a Gameplay video: Simple and easy Method

August 6th, 2008 by admin

As a pre-emptive to a detailed blog post I have planned regarding producing high quality videos for
Youtube from any pc-game, although I will be focusing on Battlefield 2142, I am going to produce a
simple guide that is especially useful for people who may not have done this before or may not have
experience editing. the quality of the output at the end will not be that of the videos here that I
have made recently but as I said, it is mainly for beginners and will provide an excellent start
point.
What we will need for this method which will be the ‘Killcam’ method is xfire ……. and Windows
Movie maker. That is it!

For this example I kept everything simple, I will break it down step by step and provide examples and
recommended viewing where necessary, the video I made for this tutorial of sorts is as simplistic as
it gets, a short video of the Read the rest of this entry »

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