Web Animation For Dummies

This book contains tips and techniques for the design and layout of animation; discusses trade-offs between animation and download time and animating without slowing down Web pages; and recommends software for creating and incorporating animation. An accompanying CD-ROM includes relevant freeware, shareware, sample graphics and web utilities.

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Recommending some of the best software products for creating and incorporating animation on the Web, this book also gives tips and techniques for design and layout of animation. One potential drawback to dynamic, animated Web pages with graphical images that spin, flash, float and rotate, is that they can take much longer to download. This book discusses trade-offs between animation and download time and how to effectively utilize animation without slowing Web pages to a crawl. The bonus CD includes freeware and shareware animation tools, sample graphics and animations created by the author, and other Web utilities for incorporating dynamic graphics into Web pages.