You gotta hand it to David Pfeiffer. He just keeps getting better and better. In an
ever increasing effort to bring well-behaved Java applets to the masses, David has
released the FrontLook, Series 3 -- a continuation of his popular
series of FrontPage add-in tools that enables A-N-Y-O-N-E to add slick multimedia effects
to their web sites with a few strokes of the keyboard.
As anyone who has tried their hand at integrating fancy Java applets into their web
site can tell you, it's not necessarily the easiest thing in the world to do if you are
not a Java developer by nature. There's so many ways to hose your web page and a visitor's
browser.
FrontLook,
Series 3 continues in the footsteps of its predecessors by enabling even the
novice webmaster to add slick multimedia effects to their web site including
Presentation/Slide Shows and unique Scrolling Messages.
The Presentation/Slide Show applet is extremely flexible and powerful, allowing the
webmaster to customize it in multiple ways. It includes 30 transition effects (wipes for
you Powerpoint fans), hypertext linking, status bar messages in the bottom of your
browser, and a variety of sound triggers. Just about anything you can do with Powerpoint
can now be done online quickly and effectively with FrontLook,
Series 3.
The Scroller applet is equally unique by allowing you to create single and multi-column
scrolling text (neat trick!). You can change the color of the text, link the scrolling
text to web pages, even pause the applet or add sound effects. It's a very complete
applet, covering just about any combination of custom effects one can imagine.
While these applets are very powerful and flexible, it should be noted they are equally
easy to use and integrate into your web site. That's what makes FrontLook,
Series 3 so special. It makes the tough stuff -- simple. Just click on a drop
down menu, click on a tab, enter your text, load your graphics, set the links, timing and
sound effects, and you're done quickly and easily. I wish all JavaScripts were this
"push button" easy to implement.
As usual, DPA Software over-delivers by including 30 new business and personal themes
for FrontPage, 90 audio files for your applets, and 300 professionally designed pieces of
clip art ranging from buttons and banners to backgrounds and separator elements. It's all
there. And it's all only $39.95 -- or if you're a previous owner of their other FrontLook
tools -- it's only $29.95!
To learn more and to download a sample of this great tool, please click here.
