Custom Cursor Effects

Dashboard → Profile → Effects → Cursor. Something happens as a visitor moves their mouse across your page. To try one, open View profile, switch it to Desktop and move the pointer over your page.

• Emoji: your emoji, falling as the cursor moves
• Letters: your word, scattering letter by letter
• Text flag: your word trailing behind the cursor like a banner
• Springy emoji: a chain of your emoji that bounces and settles

A text field appears when you pick one of these: Emoji to scatter for the emoji effects, and Word to trail for the text ones.

• Trail: a soft line of dots
• Ghost: fading copies of the cursor
• Following dot: one dot that catches up a beat later
• Bubbles: rings that rise and pop
• Snow: flakes drifting down
• Fairy dust: sparkles that fall and shrink
• Rainbow: a ribbon in shades of your color
• Clock: the time and date, orbiting the cursor
• Cursor glow: a soft light in your color that follows the pointer
• Magnet orbit: sparks circle the pointer and stream after it when it moves
• Target: four brackets turn around the pointer and lock onto links and buttons
• Cat: a small pixel cat runs after the pointer, sits by it, and naps when it rests
• Shooting star: the pointer is a falling star, trailing sparks that flicker and burn out
• Ghost trail: fading copies of your pointer follow it and slide back in when it rests. They are your own cursor image when you have one

Most take a color, Cursor effect color, set right beside the picker.

• Click burst: every click throws out a ring of sparks
• Ripple: every click sends out rings, like a drop in water
• Firework: every click bursts into falling sparks in shades of your color

They wait for a click, so a visitor who only scrolls never sees them.

• Ribbon trails: a silky bundle of strands that chases the cursor and glows where it crosses itself. Up to five colors, how long each one holds, and the bundle's opacity, thickness, strand count and length
• Multi-effect trail: one trail in four looks (constellation, ribbon, comet or bubbles), with size, intensity, movement and trail length
• Dot cursor: a dot replaces the pointer, trails a tapered tail and opens into a ring over links and buttons. Dot size, tail color, tail length and tail width

Pick one of these and its settings fold out under the picker, behind a line that counts them. Each effect keeps its own settings, so trying another one does not lose them. The cursor effect color is always the main color: the dot, the trail, or the ribbon's first color.

Your own cursor, in the same Cursor card, replaces the pointer itself. PNG, ICO, CUR or an animated ANI up to 2MB. An ANI plays on your page frame by frame at its own speed. A large PNG is shrunk to cursor size as it uploads; a large ICO, CUR or ANI is refused, so keep those small. SVG is refused, because an SVG can carry script. Use my own cursor, under it, takes it off your page and keeps the file.