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Author Topic: animated gif doesn't work once it is uploaded  (Read 1004 times)
mikelowey
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« on: August 25, 2002, 07:20:00 AM »
Hi,

I am clearly missing something imporatant.
I have created some animated gifs in Fireworks.
They look good when they are on my computer.
I can open them in IE and they are animated but once I load them up to the site and look at them they are all messed up. It shows up as a low-res, blocky, and non-moving picture. I tried downloading the picture through FTP to my computer again to see if it had been corrupted somehow but it looks fine here.

The picture is at http://www.uwp.bz/bottom_animation2.gif
and a page that contains it and another one is at
http://www.uwp.bz/bottom.html

what am i doing wrong?

please help

Mike
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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2002, 07:26:00 AM »
uh oh.
I just tried accessing it though another computer and it loks good.
I guess that this changes the question a little to: "why would it look ok on one computer and not anoth?"
They are both running Win2k and one has IE6 and one has IE% (the one that doesn't work).
I don't want to be building a site that only people with IE6 can see!
is it related to that?

Thanks in advance,

Mike
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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2002, 07:27:00 AM »
i just saw a typo in my last message.
The one that doesn't work has IE5

maybe I should learn to type
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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2002, 07:33:00 AM »
ok. :-)
one mroe thing.
I was able to open up the local files AND have them lok fine in IE5.

Mike
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stephan
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« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2002, 07:44:00 AM »
Your animation is so big (file size), that it takes ages to download.

The animation plays as it downloads, but it is such a big file, that you only see the first frame.

It took my computer more than a minute to download the complete animation, which did finally load.

I would suggest that you edit it, and make it smaller.

I think that is probably what is going on.

If it has loaded once however, the next time, it should appear quickly as it will be in your temporary internet files (cache).
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stephan
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« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2002, 07:47:00 AM »
Looking at other images on your website, I noticed that they are nearly all very large files.

It is ok for people with fast internet connections, but your site loads slowly on a 56k modem.

www.jasc.com has a program called "Paintshop pro" which will let you optimize your graphics, and save them to very small file sizes, with only slight loss of quality.

p.s. I am scared from this picture! http://www.lowey.net/pics/mike_wired.jpg
 
 [ August 25, 2002, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: Stephan ]
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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2002, 09:06:00 AM »
thanks Stephan,

I am using PhotoShop 6's save-for-web to optimize the pictures. I have taken out as much reolution and colors as I can without it starting to not look like moulding nay more. The customer wants to be able to see the detail in the mouldings so there is only so small I can make the individual pictures. I have re-made it to load each animated piece of wood seperately and it seems a little less painful. I am working with dial up at my house right now so I can see what you are talking about. I have decided that since it works with the 2 other browsers that i have running (IE6 and NN6.2) that I am not going to trip on it. maybe there is something messed up with my IE5.

Thanks for the suggestions. Lunarpages is SO MUCH BETTER than any other hosts that I have used before. These forums are sweet.

Yeah. The wired picture is funny. I wanted to have somehting up that expressed my strangeness without putting off potential customers. MAybe I didn't judge that one very well. :-)

Mike

WOW! I was just looking at uglypeople. That illuminated brain navigation thing is brilliant! How did you do it? I want one. Or somehting like it.
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stephan
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« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2002, 04:30:00 PM »
Right, so they are already as optimized as possible without losing out on the quality.

In that case, how about using Flash?

Javascript could also be used but I think it would be very complicated.

I think that the way animated gif files work, it just saves each frame as a gif file, and sticks them all together, whereas with flash, you could get the picture to move and it would end up as quite a small file.

You can download a trial version of flash from the macromedia website (www.macromedia.com) - I think. I personally find it difficult to use, but we have these forums full of people to help you, and there are flash tutorials all over the internet.

Good luck!

By the way, the picture isn't too scary, it's funny though.

As for the brain, that is a transparent gif file. Javascript is used to find out where the mouse is, then a DHTML shadow is moved to where the mouse is. It's quite hard to set up, but you can right click the code and adapt it if you like. The brain picture also has an imagemap so that each click goes to a different page.

Lastly, you are right about lunarpages. A quality host.
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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2003, 07:59:47 AM »
I own fireworks MX and I had this problem too.
Remeber to use the export wizard instead of the simple export button since that does not work to well.
Try changing the settings, go from 256 to 128.
Make sure that you are exporting it in a .gif format, Jpegs, bitmaps. and other formats don't support animated images.
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