Add Animation To Your Website
Animation is basically any thing that moves. If you want to create animated
banners, text, graphics for your website or even find animated resources already
made that you can freely use then have a browse through this page.
The only thing you need to remember with animations is try and keep the file sizes
as small as you can and to not "over do" them....nothing worse than coming across
a page with a zillion animated gifs or flash files trying to open at once.
Used correctly, animations can draw attention to parts of your page which you want
people to notice, break up an otherwise boring and bland text page, send your users a message and much more.
Animation Software
Animation Shop
Making animations has been increasingly popular as a means of advertising products on the web.Animations don't have to be all business. Just look at Youtube and see the animations that people are creating. With Animation Shop you too can create awesome animations for both business and pleasure.
Animation Shop has high-quality easy-to-use creative effects, features, and optimization options for Web graphic designers of every level.
Animation Shop gives you the ability to easily create buttons, banners, and other cool animations.
Quickly create new and fun animations and banners with step-by-step wizards
Create animations with professional-quality effects and transitions
Easily optimize and save an animation for any destination, including the Web
It is an affordable program that is easy to use & full of features.
Adobe After Effects CS3
With After Effects CS3 you can create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard. Design vector graphics, create more organic movements.
Just an AMAZING program, and the new "puppet tool" is incredible. You can turn totally static image into something moving realistically so easily.
Beneton Movie GIF (free)
Benton Movie Gif is a free animated GIF editing tool which is simple to use.Create animated gifs from your images - has 20 different effects.
Animation Resources
Flashiness Flashiness has free flash animations and some customizable ones for reasonable prices.
123-banner.com 123-banner.com let's you create flash banners for your website in 60 seconds!
For a very reasonable price you can get the banners without the 123-banner.com logo showing. (you can make as many banners as you like in 30 minutes for just under $4 USD, or just under $9 for 12 hours of banner making!)
Quite a few different styles of banner to choose from too.
AdDesigner.com AdDesigner.com has LOTS of animated banners that you can make fairly quickly.
Just choose a style, choose your text, upload your site logo and that's it.
It does have their website included in the banner, but it isn't too obtrusive.
You have to create an account to use this website.
You can see some example banners here, as well as the one I created below.
Animation Library Animation Library has a HUGE amount of FREE animations you can use in your webpages.
Lisa Explains it All The Scrolling Marquee Tutorial is for kids, but I think it's the easiest one to follow on the Internet!
Really useful information on how to make animated text move around on your web pages to catch your visitors attention.
One example:
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