You require 5 images named countdown1.jpg, countdown2.jpg ..so on till countdown5.jpg
each with repective digits on them, in the same directory as the script. When
you load this page, after a delay of 2 seconds the images are displayed in the
reverse order (from 5 down to 1) each after a delay of 1 second. This gives it
a kewl effect of a countdown from 5 to 1 and then when it finishes a new blank
window opens. The opening of a blank window was the simplest thing to use here.
You can replace that with any other command.
I had used a slightly modified version of this countdown script during a press
release of one of the websites I had developed. After the countdown the website
opened in the new window. Of course it was accompanied with claps and wows from
the crowd present there :-) The effects looked wonderful since I had used 5 animated
gifs, with each of them showing a sort of transformation (morphing) from one
digit to another.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">
<!--
x=5;
var pics= new Array();
for(i=1;i<=x;i++){
pics[i]=new Image();
pics[i].src="countdown"+i+".jpg";
}
function img(){
document.images[0].src=pics[x].src;
x--;
if(x>0) setTimeout('img()',1000);
if(x==0) setTimeout("msg=open('','DisplayWindow')",1000);
}
-->
</script>
<BODY onLoad="setTimeout('img()',2000)">
<B>The countdown from 5 to 1 will begin in 2 seconds</B>
</BODY>