Custom Animated Gif Loader Graphic
A quick little tool that I want to share. This couple sites that help build a custom slideshow or gallery “loading” graphic (like the one on the left) to match your site — if you have a shaded background, get rid of that white pixel edge!
And — on the topic of animated gifs, I’ve been thinking about them as design elements since I’ve recently seen two sites that used them beautifully.
The first is a great little animation at the bottom of my FreshBooks account. In the footer — a cute little fish appears when you rollover “Pricing & Upgrades.” It’s a fun way to highlight the link. (see the pics below)
And secondly, I recently saw a portfolio site for a designer that had great monsters with blinking animted gif eyes, but it seems that she’s redesigned her site, so here’s one of hers that shows the effect too https://www.sillypoems.info/ (built by https://www.indubitablee.com). Here’s another one that does it – https://www.brandwood.com/
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Here is a list of tutorials on creating animated gifs: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/27/tutorials-and-resources-for-adobe-fireworks/
And here’s one of those sites where you can upload a short video and have it made into an animated gif: https://gifninja.com/animated-gifs/create