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[Craig Duncan <craigduncan AT entuend.com>]

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

> Normally I would pay a professional to do banner ads, but I'm working  
> on a personal project with no budget, and was going to give it a try  
> myself.  I'm looking to just fade some text in and out in a banner  
> ad, but am having trouble finding the right tools.  Are people  
> creating GIFs these days, or is this better done with Shockwave?  I'm  
> fluent with Photoshop, but that doesn't seem to get me all the way to  
> animated banner.
>
> Any suggestions?
>  
Yip, stay away from anything flashy and do it with CSS/Javascript. Take 
your pick of libraries to help you do this

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/animation/
http://dojotoolkit.org/

or one of th many other free utilities that do the same thing

Craig Duncan
Entuend, Inc.