Web Animation Utilities

Outside of animation for advertising, GIF animations have somewhat fallen out
of favor for use on professional Web sites—except for those instances where very
subtle effects are desired. Of course, much of this has to do with the proliferation
of Macromedia Flash (which has also influenced Web advertising). Nevertheless,
GIF animations are sill desired in some cases, so make sure you have one on hand.



Ulead Gif Animator Windows; very
popular with many
designers
Commercial, low-cost product
with 30-day demo, www.ulead
.com/ga/runme.htm
GIF Construction Set One of the oldest GIF
animators around for
Windows
Low-cost shareware,
www.mindworkshop.com/
alchemy/gifcon.html
GIF Builder Very popular for Mac
OS 9 and earlier
Low-cost shareware,
www.mac.org/graphics/
gifbuilder/
GIF Builder for OS X Mac OS X (will run on
Mac OS 8 and above)
Freeware,
www.macupdate.com/info
.php/id/235
GIF Merge Linux and related
platforms
http://the-labs.com/
GIFMerge
The majority ofWeb designers, however, tend to use Adobe ImageReady for animations.