Creativures

If you are running a web site and if you want to make it stand out, using a custom cursor may be the right thing for you. This guide will explain how to do it from the technical point of view and also discusses the dangers involved in doing it.

Do you really need the custom cursor?

You have seen a cursor on a web and you think it was just cool. You'll deinitely need something like this on your own site to amaze your visitors. Right? Well, maybe. Custom cursors are not suitable for every site. You can see that this very site, which focuses on cursors, uses the standard cursors. The cursor pointer is a very personal thing and some users may find it offending, if a web site takes their own cursors (possibly customized) away and replaces them with something else.

First of all, think about the cursor for a while.
consider using a custom cursor.

Recent versions of some internet browsers support custom cursors.