December is Animated Banner Month!

[allegrita]

Happy Holidays, Moonlightaholics!
During the month of December, animated signature banners are allowed on this site.

Please keep your banner animations simple and your file sizes as small as possible, since large and/or complex animated banners can be a real problem for people with older computers or slow connections! Apart from the animations, the usual banner rules apply.

Here are some sample banners with simple animations:



(gorgeous banner by VG99)

If you have any questions about banners, please post here, or ask any member of the Team.

Have fun decking the MLA halls!
Your MLA Admin/Mod team

[Fleur de Lisa]

I'm not even gonna try to be subtle--HM, darling, sweetie-pie, love of my life, maker of all my banners, Shelburnistan-sister: PLEASE craft me an animated banner, if you have the time. You know what I like at this point, so I don't need to be specific!

[Fleur de Lisa]

HM made me a gorgeous animated banner and I can't wait for you all to see it, but I don't know how to install it. Whenever I try, it just shows as a non-animated banner. Any help is most appreciated.

[Lilly]

Fleur, once the banner is in PhotoBucket, you install it the same way you would for any banner. I can't imagine why it's not working.

[HotMicks]

Fleur, once the banner is in PhotoBucket, you install it the same way you would for any banner. I can't imagine why it's not working.

Somehow it copied as a JPG and not a GIF file, Lilly. I'm trying to help Fleur through PMs, so hopefully she'll get a chance later to get it working. Thanks for the assist.

[allegrita]

I cannot wait to see what it looks like!

[Fleur de Lisa]

I'm taking you all back to the days when I couldn't use the "quote thingy"!!!!

And it's the MOST awesome banner.

[HotMicks]

I don't know, I'm kinda liking the 'blank' banner. It is quite gorgeous, Fleur. Leaves much to the imagination.

Anyway, I do have a question... When you say "animated" do you mean only .gif files? Just wondering if other file formats are allowed, such as .avi, .mov, .mpg, etc. Keeping file sizes in mind, of course. I didn't find anything about permissible file formats in the Banner/Avi Guidelines post in the help section. I can do a very simple three-photo slideshow at Smilebox, but the only file option to save it as is a .mov. I like the little animation it does before the photos, so wanted to use that instead of one of the online .gif makers that do the same thing.

[allegrita]

To be honest, I'm not sure! We don't allow attachments here (it fills up our limited filespace very fast). However, if you can put it somewhere like Photobucket, and link to it using [IMG] tags, it ought to work!

[Fleur de Lisa]

HM---note how you are credited for the blank banner!!!!

Very avant-garde.

[Lilly]

Understated.

[Fleur de Lisa]

Thank you to HM for this beauty you animated for me, the patience you displayed in helping me and to Alle for fixing it so that I could stop pulling my hair out!!!

[allegrita]

My pleasure, honey, and It. Is. GORGEOUS!!!

ETA: And I just saw HotMicks' banner ! It's brilliant!!

[Fleur de Lisa]

She does beautiful work, doesn't she? And to pick the photos she chose?? They are all so gorgeous.

And HM--thanks isn't enough. And I am dying over here at your adorable banner!!

[HotMicks]

If one spends any kind of time in the "Appreciation" thread, one comes to know what Fleur likes.

And a BIG thanks to Alle for helping her figure out how to get it posted!

So... nevermind about the file formats. As you can see, I found a GIF animation I liked.