How To Create Special Effects for Your Website--Even if You Can't Write Code

With so many webhosts providing free domains, webhosting, and an online and easy to use web creation software, more and more people have tried their hand in creating their very own websites. Yes, you don’t need to know the intricacies of HTML and CSS coding in order to create your very own website. It is that easy.
Now, while these online web creation applications allow you to create a website in a matter of minutes, some of them do not allow you to add certain effects. Yes, most of them will probably allow you to add certain elements like images, videos, and forms. However, if you are looking for add effects consisting of widgets and animation, you may need to look elsewhere. Don’t worry; you can still use your existing website and just add the effects you want by sourcing other websites that will provide you the code to do so.

To help get you started, here are the steps you can follow.

* Determine the effects you want to add. Before altering the code of your website, you will first need to determine what kind of effects you want on your website. For instance, do you want your websites to have an online clock, calculator, or interactive map? Perhaps you want your website to be animated? Or maybe, you want to have a small box allowing you to display all your posts from Twitter or Facebook? These are all possible effects that you can integrate into your website. In fact, there are even more. Make a list of them and take note where on the website you want to place the effect.
* Search for websites that will create the code for the effect. Technically, there are tons of effects available for you to use on your website. One such effect is the ability to post videos from YouTube onto your website. If you will notice, there is a code for every video that YouTube offers. This code needs to be embedded onto your website in order to display it there. That code is actually an HTML code and you will need to copy and paste it onto the HTML page of the website. Now, the websites you are looking for works the same way. They will have certain effects available such as widgets or flash. To find them all you need to do is to execute a search on Google or Yahoo. For instance, if you do a search using “web widgets” as your keywords, then you will probably stumble on www.bravenet.com/webtools/widgets.php which basically allows you to use their collection of widget boxes on your website. They will provide you a code that you will copy and paste on your website.
* Insert the code. As soon as you find an effect you want, copy the code and paste it inside the HTML file of your website. Now, make sure to insert it where you would like it displayed. Technically, this would have to be somewhere in between the 2 tags corresponding to the body of the page. Paste it there, save, and try it out.


If the effect comes out as expected, then you successfully added an effect to your website. If not, then open the HTML editor and try to move the code around there again. Trial and error will help at this point for as long as you don’t erase any existing code from the HTML file.