I'm going to sum up my last posts for ya'll.
*Note:I have a new banner now. Made it myself! I have a new featured graphic and put up a new pic at the top of the sidebar. The three top buttons are newer. I'll be changing my heading bars and <br /> bars. Check back over the next few days. I'll be making my self a little face lift.
As you can see, I like my bars/banners/buttons to blend seamlessly into my page. You can't see the borders, as I use the same background color on them as I have on my blog. Hell, I might change the firefox and thunderbird buttons too. I like it when the text and graphics pop, with the shadow under them. Amazingly enough, my animated files are very small. Photobucket only allows up to 250kb per file.
Links to all the animated graphics I made (they will open in a separate window/tab):
First trash for president button. Fairly crappy but it was my first try at animation and on a not so great program.
Animated Trash for president button. I'm happy with this one. You can see it by scrolling to the post below.
First animated header. When I made this it was too big, so I just resized the whole file. You can see the result. Some of the edges of the effects got cut off and it looks out of proportion. I redid the animation on this a lot. As you can see, it's not the one I'm using.
I don't need to give a link for the last one, because it's right up there at the top of the page. I could have made it wider, but I didn't want to. Despite the sheer amount of pics and graphics on here, I do try to keep the page and files fairly small. All of my graphics are less than 250kb. As far as I know, it loads quickly. Well, at least it doesn't drag waiting for the graphics before the text appears. I noticed on some of the other sites, no offense to the one who made the headers, the text loads first then the huge header loads and you get thrown back up. Because after the pic loads, it shoves the text down...A LOT! I usually don't mind it, just bugs me sometimes. That's why mine is small. Even with an itty bitty monitor, I'm sure the header would still fit in the page. I hate having to scroll right or left just to see a graphic or writing on a page. |