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I've been dabling in Active Desktop for a while, making rinky dink html desktops for myself. I thought it would be cool to take on a bigger project that more than I will benifit from. I've made a simple Active Desktop style webpage for GTPlanet. It includes the more popular links to items on GTPlanet, plus a few extra fun things (:
It has a javascript date & time script that pulls the date and time from your system and displays it right on the desktop. I've also found a really cool javascript that randomly selects an image from a list and loads it in a given place. Every time your computer refreshes the desktop, there'll be a new image. Pretty cool, eh?
I'm running Windows 2000 SP2 with all the 'critical updates' applied, and Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2. I'm sure that as long as you have everything fully updated, it will work just fine. I do recomend using at least 1024x768 resolution at 24bit color. This makes the images look the best and fit on your screen. I'm using 1600x1200 at 32bit color and it looks really sharp! I also turn off the desktop icons so there isn't any clutter. That takes some getting used to, because you have to find another way of geting to your files. Future version of these desktops will include links to local directories like the desktop folder, the my documents folder, and the system drive.
Well, here are some links so you can see what I'm talking about:
UPDATE: It's all been moved here: https://www.gtplanet.net/multimedia/activedesktop/
To set your computer to use this "Active Desktop", download this zip file (2.2MB), and extract it. Then right click on your desktop and select properties. You will be at "Display Properties" where you can click the Browse button and select the index.hml file that you extract from the zip file. If you don't have Active Desktop enabled, it will ask you if you would like to do that.
In the lower right corner is a link to the users control pannel. Since the required information is pulled from a cookie on your computer, all you have to do is change "LoudMusic" to your GTPlanet nickname ... or whatever you want (: To do that, just open the index.html file in a text editor (like Notepad) and search for "LoudMusic", and replace it.
I hope this works for everyone, and you understand what I'm talking about. If not, that's ok, maybe we can do some education in this thread. I'll try to answer any questions you have.
~LoudMusic
It has a javascript date & time script that pulls the date and time from your system and displays it right on the desktop. I've also found a really cool javascript that randomly selects an image from a list and loads it in a given place. Every time your computer refreshes the desktop, there'll be a new image. Pretty cool, eh?
I'm running Windows 2000 SP2 with all the 'critical updates' applied, and Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2. I'm sure that as long as you have everything fully updated, it will work just fine. I do recomend using at least 1024x768 resolution at 24bit color. This makes the images look the best and fit on your screen. I'm using 1600x1200 at 32bit color and it looks really sharp! I also turn off the desktop icons so there isn't any clutter. That takes some getting used to, because you have to find another way of geting to your files. Future version of these desktops will include links to local directories like the desktop folder, the my documents folder, and the system drive.
Well, here are some links so you can see what I'm talking about:
UPDATE: It's all been moved here: https://www.gtplanet.net/multimedia/activedesktop/
To set your computer to use this "Active Desktop", download this zip file (2.2MB), and extract it. Then right click on your desktop and select properties. You will be at "Display Properties" where you can click the Browse button and select the index.hml file that you extract from the zip file. If you don't have Active Desktop enabled, it will ask you if you would like to do that.
In the lower right corner is a link to the users control pannel. Since the required information is pulled from a cookie on your computer, all you have to do is change "LoudMusic" to your GTPlanet nickname ... or whatever you want (: To do that, just open the index.html file in a text editor (like Notepad) and search for "LoudMusic", and replace it.
I hope this works for everyone, and you understand what I'm talking about. If not, that's ok, maybe we can do some education in this thread. I'll try to answer any questions you have.
~LoudMusic
Good show LoudMusic.
(:
