What are your opinions about animated gif avatars?

**opifex** · 09-06-2009, 03:33 PM

gifs aren't all that bad if they are tasteful AND optimized!

**multimediocrity** · 09-08-2009, 11:57 PM

Tasteful and subtle.

**Stephen Philbin** · 09-10-2009, 03:01 PM

Tasteful and kept offline.

**multimediocrity** · 09-10-2009, 03:36 PM

I should make an avatar in Flash... which makes noise... and never stops animating based on math formulas I provide... and pops-up or gets larger when you mouse over it.

**opifex** · 09-12-2009, 12:13 PM

@Multimediocrity... that would be absolutely sinister... if tastefully done

**democidist** · 09-13-2009, 04:29 PM

I accually saw an animated jpg before, it freaked me out 'cause I didn't know that was possible...

**Stephen Philbin** · 09-14-2009, 04:51 AM

You sure it actually was a JPEG and not just a GIF with a .jpg file extension?

**scragar** · 09-14-2009, 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by democidist

I accually saw an animated jpg before, it freaked me out 'cause I didn't know that was possible...

That's sort of because it's not.

**multimediocrity** · 10-05-2009, 01:18 AM

Which ones are your favorite?

**6StringGeek** · 10-07-2009, 08:53 AM

I think they're fine, unless they're giving me a seizure.

**multimediocrity** · 10-25-2009, 12:54 AM

Where can I find a collection of annoying gifs?

**scragar** · 10-28-2009, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by multimediocrity

Where can I find a collection of annoying gifs?

Geocities is dead now, or I'd point you in their direction.

**multimediocrity** · 10-30-2009, 11:23 PM

Ha ha ha.... lots of people are saying that Geocities had a bad design. What was it?

**Sunny G** · 11-09-2009, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by multimediocrity

...Geocities had a bad design. What was it?

Geocities was a free web host. The only cost of using their services was your soul, and advertising they'd force upon your viewers by use of frames. Because it was free, sites on geocities were setup by folks with a limited budget, and little design experience. As a result, they often used blinding color schemes and crappy graphics. You can't blame them, it was difficult to upload stuff 'cause you had to use geocitie's online interface and not ftp.