How to make animated or flash icon?

llegent · 06-20-06, 10:38 AM

Hi everyone. There are time when I browse thru some sites which have those little icon that is flashing or animated to make it grab the attention of visitors and indecue them to click on it. When I look at the page source, I could only see that the icon is just seems to be another "normal" image. It makes me wonder how to make one of this?

Any tutorial available? Does these types of icon require special coding to make it flashing or animated? or it need javascript?

**Max** · 06-20-06, 11:20 AM

Hi,

It's an animated gif. If you look at the header of NBT, the advertisements are animated gifs.

It's quite simple to do as long as you have Adobe Imageready.

taiarain · 06-25-06, 09:36 PM

I used to use AniMagic to make animated .gifs years ago. These days, I usually just barter out the work.

Taia

**Baby Boy** · 06-25-06, 11:13 PM

I use ImageReady... oh the magic

llegent · 06-26-06, 09:40 AM

Thanks for the info. I will start to digg more into those application. By the way, are they of "free software"? You know, I love free stuffs. Too tight on my budget...have spend most of it on my hosting. Well, I got a good storage space and bandwith/transfer spec, but only "managed" to use about 15% so far. I know it is sort of wasted, but I will be sharing it with my friend soon.

**Baby Boy** · 06-26-06, 07:32 PM

Their not "free software" but are well worth the money. I am not sure how much ImageReady is... actually, now that I think of it, it comes built in with Adobe Photoshop so you'd have to most likely go about buying it $650.00 --- not cheap I know.

Slashmire · 06-27-06, 06:44 PM

Not a really big giant software, but the "Gimp" is probably among the top of the free softwares if you wish to try some.

**Baby Boy** · 06-28-06, 02:51 PM

I remember GIMP... ha ha, used to make so many images that my site wasn't no match for broadband (it'd be so slow... back then, I had dial up and the page made so much non-sense that my dial-up AOL (that I then had) would freeze up.)

The magic of broadband (Comcast)

llegent · 06-30-06, 03:32 PM

Today I bump into a site that allow me to sort of customize "My banner" online. Well, it has a pre-made flash banner, and all I need to do is to input my text. Then I need to upload the file to my server. Looks easy, in fact very straight forward....until when I view my site and the banner is just not showing up!

I think I missed some parts but not sure where? The file is ".swf" type, and I believe I'll need to install some application right? Any guide?

**Baby Boy** · 06-30-06, 04:15 PM

.SWF file is a flash file. I believe it is used by SWiSH and Macromedia Flash. But I have noticed that many use flash files now instead of .gif animations.