Sounds to me like the applet is not being found by the page.
not enough info...red x’s usually mean path and/or permission/rights issues...
Use .NET.
Save yourself the learning curve.
What libraries are needed? Are those being referenced and downloaded properly?
You can open up your Java runtime log and read the error messages. There should be a JRE icon in the group of little icons in the lower right corner on Windows.
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with an applet.
It has to be installed as a component rather than just cut and paste the code, if I'm reading you question correctly
Is it an applet you wrote or an applet you found somewhere that could be useful?
Switching to .NET probably isn’t a viable option, since it’s already written.
But, if you don’t know what .NET is, you might not have written the applet.
What is the applet supposed to do? It might be worth your time to look around and see if there’s some jQuery, Dodjo Toolkit, or ExtJS plugin or widget that does the same thing with Javascript.
Getting Javascript to work and maintaining or modifying it is a lot easier, I’ve found, than writing, maintaining, and modifying a Java applet.
Thanks everyone for your help. I’ll check in on the thread later, but methinks I am a bit in over my head even with this right now (I’m not a programmer at all - simple HTML is about all I know of web-based programming)....
Just leave all the ports on your website open - eventually some java applets - amongst other things - will install themselves..