A ray of light will move across your text. The Background color The background color will be used as the background for the effect if no background image supplied. Otherwise background color will be used as the background only during preloading of applet. The Text and Light Colors Two colors provided for effect - one for displaing text and another for displaying rays of light. Light settings Speed will determine how fast light will move (pixels per frame). Please keep in mind that with greater speed more calculations needed for applying rays of light, so high speed might even slow effect down. Ray duration will determine how long each created ray will be displayed (in frames). Please keep in mind that displaying of too much rays might not only consume a lot of CPU power, but also cause bugs if total amount of rays will exceed 200. Outlines width and height X step and Y step will determine size and orientation of each created outline. With positive Y step outlines will be directed to the bottom and with negative Y step - to the top of the applet. X step will be at maximum around left and right border of the applet and gradually changed to zero at the middle of the applet. X outlines and Y outlines will determine if outlines will be created at left/right edges of text and/or top/bottom edges. Other settings You can select the compression Ratio and the background image in 'other settings' tab. The target frame on click of any hyperlink is also set here. The text to be titled and its hyperlinks has to be predefined here. There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Advanced Effect Maker documentation: Working With Text Fields Working With File Fields And File Lists The Flash Applet Size Parameters   Aleksey Udovydchenko