Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Rotating Images on a web site

Interesting but simple request.

Three images to rotate every 10 seconds on the front page of a web site.

Well this called for an Animated PNG. We first quickly tried an Animated Gif but the 256 colours makes pictures files quite grainy.

There is a Firefox add-in but it didn't work with our latest version so we downloaded a free but useful utility called "APNG Anime Maker."

Now the client has a very nice rotating set of images on their web site.

Just waiting for the next tricky bit of logic.

Just for your information, the alternative was some groovy jquery logic and even found that DotNetNuke has a free Widget Module called the Carouselat http://dnnwidgets.com/.

Still the Animated PNG is the simplest and easiest way to go in this case, but can see us using some jquery logic in the future for Web Development.

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