Web Page Transitions By Holly Cunningham (1/12/01) Ah, Microsoft. What won't they do for us? They put the power of flashy interpage transitions into the hands of the masses. Designed for Windows IE 4.0 and later, these eye-catching wipes apply to the entire document and can be used for dramatic entrances and exits. Whose site couldn't benefit from a little "Best Director fu"? Step One Paste the following HTML code into the of your Web page: Could that be simpler? But here's the hard, decision-making, artistic part: designing your wipes. Now you face the gut-wrenching questions that every good director has to grapple with: What speaks to my audience? What connects my content to my viewer in a dynamic, inspirationally self-affirming way, revealing the very Lebensfreude of my vision? Usually we like to answer that question with 23, "Random," but you can pick any Transition value from the bevy of choices below. Duration sets the number of seconds to complete the effect; should it be a five-second endurance contest or a one-second mercy killing? Transition style Transition value Box in 0 Box out 1 Circle in 2 Circle out 3 Wipe up 4 Wipe down 5 Wipe right 6 Wipe left 7 Vertical blinds 8 Horizontal blinds 9 Checkerboard across 10 Checkerboard down 11 Random dissolve 12 Split vertical in 13 Split vertical out 14 Split horizontal in 15 Split horizontal out 16 Strips left down 17 Strips left up 18 Strips right down 19 Strips right up 20 Random bars horizontal 21 Random bars vertical 22 Random (one of above) 23 Step Two, If You Want It You can add still more effects by adding more META tags similar to the one above, except with http-equiv values of Page-Exit, Site-Enter, or Site-Exit. The last two execute only if the preceding or following page (respectively) is not from the same site as yours. Now you're done. Start mentally scripting your acceptance speech for the Academy.