March 27, 2008
There are plenty of reasons to add flair to your website: presentation, graphical representation of an idea, or just fun. Changing the cursor (what is traditionally displayed as a white arrow controlled by your mouse) is just one of many changes that can be made, but it is an interesting one. It offers many unique options to the webmaster. Following are the steps involved in changing your website cursor.
- Understand how changing your cursor works. Most of the time, when implementing some sort of change to a website (vanity or otherwise), it is wise to understand what the change actually does. Changing the cursor on your webpage involves an alteration of the <body> tag, a fundamental HTML tag which is part of the backbone of any page and which sandwiches between itself and its ending </body> tag most of the written and coded content of your webpage. The icon itself will be an image in the .cur format which will be hosted on your webspace or on an outside source (if you use an icon hosted someplace other than your webspace, it is courteous to give credit through a small note somewhere on your website). The cursor will not require much additional loading time and will only last as long as your website is open.
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