var delay = 2000; 
var maxsteps = 130; 
var stepdelay = 30; 

var startcolor = new Array(255, 255, 255); 
var endcolor = new Array(0, 0, 0); 
var fcontent = new Array();
begintag = '<div style="font: normal 14px Arial; padding: 5px; color :#336699; font-weight:bold ;">'; //set opening tag, such as font declarations

fcontent[0] = "“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell"
fcontent[1] = "“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~ Abraham Lincoln"
fcontent[2] = "“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy"

closetag = '</div>';

var fwidth = '650px'; 
var fheight = '40px'; 

var fadelinks = 1; 

var ie4 = document.all && !document.getElementById;
var DOM2 = document.getElementById;
var faderdelay = 0;
var index = 0;

function changecontent() {
    if (index >= fcontent.length)
        index = 0
    if (DOM2) {
        document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color = "rgb(" + startcolor[0] + ", " + startcolor[1] + ", " + startcolor[2] + ")"
        document.getElementById("fscroller").innerHTML = begintag + fcontent[index] + closetag
        if (fadelinks)
            linkcolorchange(1);
        colorfade(1, 15);
    }
    else if (ie4)
        document.all.fscroller.innerHTML = begintag + fcontent[index] + closetag;
    index++
}

function linkcolorchange(step) {
    var obj = document.getElementById("fscroller").getElementsByTagName("A");
    if (obj.length > 0) {
        for (i = 0; i < obj.length; i++)
            obj[i].style.color = getstepcolor(step);
    }
}

var fadecounter;
function colorfade(step) {
    if (step <= maxsteps) {
        document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color = getstepcolor(step);
        if (fadelinks)
            linkcolorchange(step);
        step++;
        fadecounter = setTimeout("colorfade(" + step + ")", stepdelay);
    } else {
        clearTimeout(fadecounter);
        document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color = "rgb(" + endcolor[0] + ", " + endcolor[1] + ", " + endcolor[2] + ")";
        setTimeout("changecontent()", delay);

    }
}

function getstepcolor(step) {
    var diff
    var newcolor = new Array(3);
    for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
        diff = (startcolor[i] - endcolor[i]);
        if (diff > 0) {
            newcolor[i] = startcolor[i] - (Math.round((diff / maxsteps)) * step);
        } else {
            newcolor[i] = startcolor[i] + (Math.round((Math.abs(diff) / maxsteps)) * step);
        }
    }
    return ("rgb(" + newcolor[0] + ", " + newcolor[1] + ", " + newcolor[2] + ")");
}

if (ie4 || DOM2)
    document.write('<div id="fscroller" style="border:0px solid black;width:' + fwidth + ';height:' + fheight + '"></div>');
if (window.addEventListener)
    window.addEventListener("load", changecontent, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
    window.attachEvent("onload", changecontent)
else if (document.getElementById)
    window.onload = changecontent