[TriLUG] Re: [Oculan] OT: need a cool HTML/Java countdown webpage

Tue Oct 26 09:50:42 EDT 2004

Greg,
No need for real Java -- here's a Javascript that'll count backwards to 
a given date:
http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/javascripts/javascript_11.html

Just grab an appropriately large image of the bunny, make it the 
background image of the page (either on the <body> tag or better yet, 
using CSS), and then slap this little Javascript goody in there.  ;-) 
Oh yeah, you'll probably want to make the HTML background black too 
(again either on the <body> tag or in CSS).

HTH,
Larry

gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> My project is winding down and everyone here is getting nervous.  Not about the fact that we'll all be looking for work in a few weeks rather the amount of work we still have left to do in a short time.  Every morning we get an e-mail with the time remaining until the "drop dead" time which is 17:00 Eastern, 12/23/2004.
> 
> What I wanted to create is a Java countdown applet (which I can't write as I know next to no Java) counting down backwards to the date.  The neato part is I want a picture of Frank, the freaky rabbit costume guy from Donnie Darko, in the background (either just his "face" or entire body shot).  Overall I wanted the page to be black, or dark, to heighten the overall creepy feeling.  The page will be hosted from my laptop running Knoppix 3.6.
> 
> This little diddy is well past both my Java and graphic abilities but if anyone is BORED and wants to do something fun I'd be a very happy camper if you would create such a page for our little project.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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