A friend of mine from Second Life, four Yip, has seen the easy peasy site and has given me a huge list of resources, of which I will be making good usage! Thank you four Yip :-)
So, here is one of them: Would you like a custom cursor for your site?
Think carefully before you say yes. While some people (myself included) will love them, others may become highly irritated by them; especially since they will not be getting the little hand thingy for the links. That said, if the answer is still yes - here is a good place for them: http://www.cursors-4u.com/
Think carefully before you say yes. While some people (myself included) will love them, others may become highly irritated by them; especially since they will not be getting the little hand thingy for the links. That said, if the answer is still yes - here is a good place for them: http://www.cursors-4u.com/
Find the one which you think will work well with your overall design scheme and then copy the code from the little box underneath it where it says "universal CSS/HTML code for your web page".
Now comes the important part: Paste this code onto a text file first since you will need to do some serious cleaning up before you can put it into the HTML editor. Here is what the code will look like:
Now comes the important part: Paste this code onto a text file first since you will need to do some serious cleaning up before you can put it into the HTML editor. Here is what the code will look like:
<style type="text/css">body, a, a:hover {cursor: url(http://cur.cursors-4u.net/others/oth-6/oth580.cur), progress;}</style><a href="http://www.cursors-4u.com/cursor/2011/02/16/sapphire-9.html" target="_blank" title="Sapphire"><img src="http://cursors-4u.com/support.gif" border="0" alt="Sapphire" style="position:absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px;" /></a>
Delete everything that is highlighted with red! Only keep the stuff that is highlighted with white, from <style type> to </style>, in other words. If you do not do this you will get a little "support Cursors4U" banner on your site. Which, in this case I find a bit excessive since Cursors4U seems to be doing quite nicely with lots of advertisements already.
Next step: Take the cleaned up code and paste it into the <head>, at the very bottom, just above the line which says <b:skin><![CDATA[/* and before </head>.
Done! You now have a custom cursor!
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