You can use AnnounceIT to display text messages with different fade out effects like fog, puzzle, blur, wind, blood etc. You can give unlimited number of messages into this applet and specify a hyperlink to these messages individually. The font features of this applet are customizable. This applet runs on all browsers with JVM 1.1.5 or higher but is best on with IE 4.x or Netscape 4.x i.e., Netscape 4.05 or higher and is very easy to install.