Gradtables Made Easy
NOTE from Flo: It has come to my attention that someone is attributing this excellent gradtable tute to Striperman. He did NOT write this tute. S-Man Sam wrote it. When Sam left MSNTV, he gave permission to the Tandem Tooters to copy and host his tute. I have been remiss in making this fact clear and I appologize.
S-MAN SAM: Well I decided to throw a tute together. Not that any others aren't great, but I thought I'd make one in my own way. And I'll try to explain the best way I know how. Feel free to beep me if you ever have any questions. Now lets get on with the tute.
First off, you need a little knowledge on how a table works. If your in the dark, then I suggest getting a quick rundown. Draac's has an excellent table tute. Visit there and get a working understanding of tables and how they work...
Now what is different from tables and gradtables is that you introduce colors into a regular table. Plus you use two colors in a gradtable. Hence, one color will gradually fade to the other.
You basically use the same tags in a gradtable. They are <tr>, <td>, colspan, and the align and valign tags. The only thing different you add is the gradcolor tag and the gradangle tag. Which tells at what angle the color will fade. You must always use these tags. The gradangle numbers go from 0 to 180, and the opposite -0 to -180. Below is a example of what they will look like.
Now that just gives you a general idea of what numbers you can use. You don't have to stick to just the even numbers. You can put in any number you like, 25 or 95...ect. How about we start putting a gradtable together..First you need to find out what colors you want to use. Here is a list of many different color charts.
http://tutes.tonebytone.com/color/color-charts.html
Now you should have your colors picked out, lets move on to the next page and start putting it all together. And remember, you can use the color names, not just the numbers, i.e. red or orangered for example.
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