Creating the Rotating Husker "N" for Internet Explorer:

The current issue of PC Magazine had an article on how to change the "e and planet" graphic to anything you wanted.  You just had to have a graphic.

Let me say that I did NOT create the graphic, I just rearranged the pictures to work with IE.  Who did create it, I don't know.  It was originally created to use with Netscape.  Changing the graphic to work with IE was not very difficult.  I remembered seeing on http://adnet.net/cornhuskers/swell.html, a link for the Netscape graphic.  I downloaded it and proceeded with the necessary changes to make it work in IE.

The Netscape version uses a 48 pixel by 48 pixel by 20 picture horizontal BMP.  The IE version uses a 38 x 38 x 23 vertical BMP.

Netscape layout:  pic1-pic2-pic3-pic4, ...pic20

IE layout:	blank \
		blank  >  NOTE:  These "blanks" at the front are for smooth animation purposes.
		blank /
		pic1
		pic2
		pic3
		pic4
		...
		pic20

These are the steps I took to convert the original graphic to work in IE:

Step 1 - Loaded original graphic into Paint.
Step 2 - Clipped each "picture" and pasted into a seperate BMP and saved as "hus1", "hus2", ... "hus20"
Step 3 - Loaded each "hus" picture into MS Imager and resized them to 38 x 38.  They were originally 48 x 48.
Step 4 - Created a new file in Paint with the attributes:  38 pixels wide x 874 pixels high
Step 5 - Into this picture a pasted "hus1" at pixel 114.  Continued to paste all of the "hus" pictures at 38 pixel intervals
Step 6 - Saved the new BMP as "C:\WINDOWS\HUSKER38-1.BMP"
Step 7 - Used the article in PC Magazine to create the registry entries and rebooted the computer.