Free Animated Squidoo Banners For Your Blog or Website
Want to get more people viewing your lenses or joining Squidoo through your referral link? Then these animated gifs are for you!
They're totally free and made by me :-)
If you've got an idea that you think I should bring to life, leave it with your guestbook comments. Oh yeah - make sure to favorite this lens, as it is a growing gallery - there is always more to come!
They're totally free and made by me :-)
If you've got an idea that you think I should bring to life, leave it with your guestbook comments. Oh yeah - make sure to favorite this lens, as it is a growing gallery - there is always more to come!
Animated Gif Gallery
How To Use These Banners
It's really simple - promise.
Step 1 - Right click the image you want and choose "Save Picture As". Give it the file name you want.
Step 2 - Upload the file to your server or to a free image hosting site.
Step 3 - Use the following code to post the banner and send those who click through to your referral link:
Step 1 - Right click the image you want and choose "Save Picture As". Give it the file name you want.
Step 2 - Upload the file to your server or to a free image hosting site.
Step 3 - Use the following code to post the banner and send those who click through to your referral link:
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/YOURUSERNAME"><img src="http://yourimageaddress.gif" ></a>
That's it! Now you're ready to roll :-)
Why Animated Gifs and Not Flash Banners?
While Flash banners are VERY cool and deliver a higher image resolution, every user will not be able to use Flash banners on their sites, and er uh, we can't display Flash banners on Squidoo, either!:-P
Furthermore, the code for embedding Flash elements is a little more complicated, so for user friendliness, animated gifs are the way to go. The files are also smaller, which is pretty awesome, too :-)
How To Create Your Own Animated Squidoo Banners
It's really easy to make animated gifs when you have the right tools. So, if you're interested in how to create your own, you're in the right place!
The various effects are created by stringing together a series of frames. Some animations only contain 3 or 4 frames: a number with alternating text, and one that leaves the text area blank. Then alternate the frames with text and the blank one in the series, and voila!
Fade effects are created by increasing the transparency of the image or text you want to fade in (opposite for fade out) and save the image at various levels of transparency (in equal increments) and string those images together so that, when played in sequence, they create the illusion that the image or text is fading into (or out of) view.
The various effects are created by stringing together a series of frames. Some animations only contain 3 or 4 frames: a number with alternating text, and one that leaves the text area blank. Then alternate the frames with text and the blank one in the series, and voila!
Fade effects are created by increasing the transparency of the image or text you want to fade in (opposite for fade out) and save the image at various levels of transparency (in equal increments) and string those images together so that, when played in sequence, they create the illusion that the image or text is fading into (or out of) view.
The Tools I Use To Make Animated Gifs
To actually animate the series of images, I use Ulead Gif Animator. It's very simple to use: just open an image, and frame by frame just add a frame and then add an image to each frame that you add. Then edit the amount of time each frame is to be displayed, and ba da boom, ba da bing - you've got an animated gif.
I actually use Adobe Photoshop to create the images, but if you're not a graphics designer, you may not want to shell out the hundreds of dollars it costs to get that program. If you are a casual image editor who just wants to try your hand at creating banners and other simple stuff, try the Ulead PhotoImpact program. It's not quite as hot as Photoshop, but it's MUCH cheaper, so hey....
;-)
NOTE: Ulead Gif Animator is not compatible with Windows Vista.
I actually use Adobe Photoshop to create the images, but if you're not a graphics designer, you may not want to shell out the hundreds of dollars it costs to get that program. If you are a casual image editor who just wants to try your hand at creating banners and other simple stuff, try the Ulead PhotoImpact program. It's not quite as hot as Photoshop, but it's MUCH cheaper, so hey....
;-)
NOTE: Ulead Gif Animator is not compatible with Windows Vista.
GIF Animator 5.0
Amazon Price: (as of 11/29/2009) 
PhotoImpact® 7.0
Amazon Price: (as of 11/29/2009)
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- HorseAndPony HorseAndPony Sep 15, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
- Wow! Thanks you for the banners and the referral link info. I need to add these to my lenses. Thanks again.
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- Kit-Kitty Kit-Kitty Feb 28, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
- Really Cool, I love squidoo and these make it easy for me to show that on my blog!
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- cool gifs, added link to my lense. Thanks
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