Animated Text To Get Your Webpage Moving

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 02 Jul, 2015
Animated Text To Get Your Webpage Moving

Text is an essential part of the digital experience so designers should know how to work with it - in both traditional as well other innovative ways.

Fortunately, there are lots of techniques (and tech) to get the text on a website moving. Website Magazine previously profiled Textillate (https://jschr.github.io/textillate/), for example, a plugin built on animate.css and lettering.js for CSS3 text animations built by Jordan Schroter (https://github.com/jschr) but there are alternatives and you will find a few (three) solid suggestions to start animated text for your users' digital experience.

Textualizer: A jquery plugin that allows users to transition through text blurbs (built by LinkedIn software engineer Kiro Risk).

FunnyText: A jquery plugin to create animated text with control over speed, direction, color and size (built by Algaro Trigo).

NoVacancy: A very creative jQuery plugin to create a text-based, glowing neon effect - complete with blinking letters (built by Chucky Glitch).

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.