The rule of thumb for animated images: Flashing, blinking, rotating, jumpy-bumpy effects are distracting. If you must use animated images, keep it small, tasteful, and to a bare minimum. Studies have found that users have actually gone so far as to 'cover' annoying animations and blinking text with their hands when viewing a site containing these 'features'.
-----Original Message----- From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:32 AM To: 'Luinrandir Hernsen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Please point me to a language (perl I hope) Please stop making life difficult for yourself. If you need just a small part of a large image to animate, chop up the large image so the animated part can be isolated, place all the parts in a table to unite them and animate the needed part. As for the person walking, either use the above technique or if the file sizes become unwieldy, use DHTML. Perl can do server side animation for you, but it's a bigger headache than what I've described. As a caveat, please be aware that most people find gratuitous animation annoying. If you can get away with not animating something, don't. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please point me to a language (perl I hope) Sorry if this is off topic, but I really don't know who else to ask. Heres what I want to do.. maybe you would be so kind as to tell me what language this can best be done in. I'm just learning perl and know HTML. within frames (or a table)... I would like to put a large gif in the backround and then place a smaller gif over it. The smaller gif is where the movement or animation would happen, Like a mouth moving over a picture of a person. Could this be done with 2 or 3 small moving gifs at the same time? Like a candle flame and a mouth of a person? If I had a picture of a forest, I'd like to have a person walk from left to right. would this mean individual gifs or one multi-gif animation in a frame that moves over the backround? I have looked into Java, Javascript, CSS and DHTML and all look promising, but I have yet to find an example in a book that answers my question. Help? Please? L Hernsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
