I tried to upload an animated GIF but all it shows is one frame. How do I get it to animate? Also how can I reduce the size and maintain the animation?
I tried to upload an animated GIF but all it shows is one frame. How do I get it to animate? Also how can I reduce the size and maintain the animation?
I don't know, but it is screwing up my HTML...
and its really obnoxiously big and visually disruptive. arent there dimensional limitations?
(Full disclaimer, I'm not a web guy; nor do I play one on teh interwebz. This is not advice from anybody that has authoritay)
Yes, there are dimensional limitations. As I remember, if you resize your GIF to be within the restrictions, the animation will work fine. slefain's avatar is a good example of this.
yes, you need to shrink it down about 60%
http://resizepic.com/
My avatar is still on a planet six light years away. 
Yeah, I had to resize mine to make it work here. After that all was good in the webz.
You need to make it go away.
changed
resizepic.com resized it but it lost it's animation. I had been able to resize on my puter, it was the animation I wanted to preserve.
PM me and I'll resize it for you
animated gifs suck balls, so I set all my browsers to never animate them. I'll never see anything but the first frame of that oh-so-clever animation. I will, however, have a much less annoying web experience without a bunch of distracting moving crap all over.
It's is bad news for less-than-forward-thinking advertisers, though.
Oh, Great Tim, please teach me how to de-animate GIF avatars. I would be forever grateful.
People who use animated avatars think that the internet is all about them. They need to understand that it's actually all about me.
I am sorry, but of course it is all about me. 
Woody, here's Firefox: http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/14861/Turn-off-animated-GIFs-in-Firefox
Safari has a preference for it. You can also block gifs from loading altogether, which isn't a bad idea, since nobody who really knows what they're doing uses gifs for much of anything anymore. From some forum "Safari -> Block Images and Plugins -> Only Animation.
Blocking downloads gif image can be activated via the menu Safari -> Block Ad / Banners adding a filter value *. gif * (with asterisks)."
Internet Explorer: go to Internet Options < Advanced < Multimedia unselect Play animations in web pages
Chrome doesn't seem to have the ability, but I could be wrong.
As I now realize that SOME people may find my avatar OFFENSIVE, and as OFFENDING people is certainly the LAST thing I would want to do, I have been considering changing my avatar to a more Politically Correct graphic:
In reply to Dr. Hess:
In all fairness, shouldn't the Toyota gun go full auto spraying bullets everywhere and kill the Toyota man too ? or perhaps it should just be the Toyota guy falling on his own sword ?
Dr. Hess wrote: As I now realize that SOME people may find my avatar OFFENSIVE, and as OFFENDING people is certainly the LAST thing I would want to do, but it's still on the list.
I couldn't resist.
Tim Baxter wrote: animated gifs suck balls, so I set all my browsers to never animate them. I'll never see anything but the first frame of that oh-so-clever animation. I will, however, have a much less annoying web experience without a bunch of distracting moving crap all over. It's is bad news for less-than-forward-thinking advertisers, though.
Well Tim that only means you are missing the coolest animated GIF on the forum! 
Thanx Grtechguy for resizing it for me and keeping the animation.
carguy123 wrote: Well Tim that only means you are missing the coolest animated GIF on the forum!
Which is kind of like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.
Dr. Hess wrote: As I now realize that SOME people may find my avatar OFFENSIVE, and as OFFENDING people is certainly the LAST thing I would want to do, I have been considering changing my avatar to a more Politically Correct graphic:
You need help, dood. Your fixation with Honda can't be healthy. 
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