I am running a contest to replace my banner http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=374436. The flash proposal looks pretty cool. Other than the size, can anyone fill me in on any disadvantages to using a flash banner. P.S. I would be happy to see some fellow DPers join the contest.
The end user will have to have Flash installed on their machine ... although it's a very smaller percentage of people who don't have Flash installed. Don't know of anything else that would be a disadvantage.
I suggest not to use flash banner. Many of my friends do not have flash player installed in their system. Even if you add a option to download flash player no body is going to do that for want of virus activites. I suggest imageready animated gifs.
I was also wondering what to use but since you think imageready animated gifs are better I guess I’ll give it a try.
Can anyone help by informing me where I can find documentation on how to create animated gifs with Imageready 8.
Try this link; http://user.fundy.net/morris/ You will get some idea to create animated gifs with imageready.
Or what you can do is request for the flash source file and use Macromedia Flash and publish it as a .gif file. The issue with that is that it doesn't provide much optimzation features and the generated .gif file is usually really huge. But it might be worth giving it a try.
Thanks for the link but it seems to be down . Anyway I found a way to make animated gifs using gimp. Nice little tool that.