Adding Animation Effects to a Static Image

[somegirl]

Would you elaborate why you find it annoying?

As for the sucking up bandwith, what type of connection and speed are you seeing bandwith consumption increases?

yuu addressed some of the annoyances.  Flash-based navigation is annoying too.  It's not mobile-friendly, you can't re-size the text in it, etc.  Do some reading up on web accessibility if you want more.  Often Flash or other animation is just used for being "flashy" and not for real purposes.   IMO animation (on the web, in powerpoints, etc) should be reserved for where it is really useful, such as a tutorial where the animation helps illustrate something.

I have a daily bandwidth cap because I am on satellite internet.  When I visit websites I don't know in advance whether they have "well-done" low-bandwidth Flash or "poor" high-bandwidth Flash.  Some websites will auto-start videos on their front page when I go to them.  I don't care to waste my bandwidth because someone thought it made their website look snazzier.  I'd rather save it for work (and cute dog pictures on the DMF ).

[somegirl]

To show I'm not the only one that feels this way (FYI Flashblock is one of the very top add-ons for Firefox):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433#reviews

[derby]

I see what you mean. I'm not going anywhere near that. I just want to make our web banner more (pardon the punn) flashy.

the problem with using flash for your intended purpose is the possibility of your banner ending up as collateral damage by somebody blocking flash for the above reasons.

animated gifs are pretty oldschool, but can still be affective (and people don't block them).