The free FadeMenu applet displays animated hyperlinks that fade in and out of view. As the author says, it's a "cool navigation toy for your homepage."

Usage: Download fademenu.zip and unzip it within your HTML directory.

Java Source: fadesrc.zip

HTML Source:

<APPLET code="FadeMenu.class" width=500 height=150>
        <PARAM NAME="keyword1" VALUE="technology">
        <PARAM NAME="url1" VALUE="http://www.pobox.com/~i/tech.html">
        <PARAM NAME="target1" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="keyword2" VALUE="photography">
        <PARAM NAME="url2" VALUE="http://www.pobox.com/~i/photo.html">
        <PARAM NAME="target2" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="keyword3" VALUE="design">
        <PARAM NAME="url3" VALUE="http://www.pobox.com/~i/design.html">
        <PARAM NAME="target3" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="keyword4" VALUE="(resume)">
        <PARAM NAME="url4" VALUE="http://www.pobox.com/~i/resume.html">
        <PARAM NAME="target4" VALUE="">
        
        <PARAM NAME="randCoords" VALUE="true">
        <PARAM NAME="randKeywords" VALUE="false">
        <PARAM NAME="fontStepSize" VALUE="1">
        <PARAM NAME="framePause" VALUE="100">
        <PARAM NAME="wordPause" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="fontFace" VALUE="Helvetica">
        <PARAM NAME="minFontSize" VALUE="30">
        <PARAM NAME="maxFontSize" VALUE="36">
        
        <PARAM NAME="bgRed" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="bgGreen" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="bgBlue" VALUE="255">
        
        <PARAM NAME="fontColor1Red" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="fontColor1Green" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="fontColor1Blue" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="fontColor2Red" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="fontColor2Green" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="fontColor2Blue" VALUE="0">
        
        <PARAM NAME="mouseOverColor1Red" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseOverColor1Green" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseOverColor1Blue" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseOverColor2Red" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseOverColor2Green" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseOverColor2Blue" VALUE="255">
        
        <PARAM NAME="mouseDownColor1Red" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseDownColor1Green" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseDownColor1Blue" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseDownColor2Red" VALUE="255">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseDownColor2Green" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="mouseDownColor2Blue" VALUE="0">
        </APPLET>