Can animated gifs have links in them? Basically a person clicks on a image in the animation and is sent to another page. thx,
You have to make the whole image a link. If you want one image in the animation to be a link you would have to use flash.
You can do what we here around the office call: image slicing. That means you could have a table of Gif's and depending on where they click on the (what appears to be one image when assembled) images, each one could be a different link. This sort of thing used to be very popular years ago for menus and side-navigation bars. Adobe Imageready was a good image-slicing program, and now it's functionality has been combined with Photoshop.
Huh? Make an animated gif in GIMP, photoshop or whatever. It's a single file. Stick an anchor around it. <a href="example.com"><img src="animated.gif" height="" width="" alt="blah"></a> No need for Flash, though you can make an Actionscript button in flash if you want.
You misunderstood what he was asking for . He wants a image within a GIF to be a link, not the whole image.
I have to admit I have never tried it, but using an image map (where you set coordinates of the image to be link) with an animated GIF could work. However, if it does work, the coordinates of the link in the image would remain the same for each frame of the GIF. http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/images/images_famsupp_220.html The example on that page doesn't half get your juices flowing as well JR