Gif drained of its animation, problem.

[Rianna]

Hi, having trouble with a gif. I have it on several pages so I think this has something to do with the same .gif being overused but not sure. Hoping someone else has had similar problems before. It is a slow glowing gif and my main site logo.

The first couple of pages work great. By time it gets to the third the glow has lost its smooth animation and looks like it is struggling.

I tried copying the OK gif and renaming it a bit and moving the copy to a different folder for the source code to point to. But I think the copied gif is probably still using the main gif as its source. Any ideas? ...or do I need to make a brand new gif to solve the problem. Thanks a lot. Rianna

[skilled1]

how many windows of the same animation do you have open? alot of animated gifs will seem to 'struggle' as they load the rest of the animation if they are over 40k in file size, however this should not affect the look 'glow' as you put it

[felgall]

A 40k animated gif would be a huge file. Most entire web pages should be smaller than that.

[skilled1]

A 40k animated gif would be a huge file. Most entire web pages should be smaller than that.

true but alot of people make the assumption that a gif loads like flash does

reguardless of that, it has to download frame by frame, even if told to 'pause' it is just a series of the same frames.

[Rianna]

Thanks for the help you guys, I only have one website page open at a time. Same website page size as the others where there is not problem.

But when I open my website are all pages considered open? Doesn't each window only stay open while you are looking at it, then closes to move on to the next page?