As you can understand Iam a real noob in building a webpage . I have a wish that my "logo" could spinn on my homepage , is there a easy way to do that ? I use webengine v2 beta .

As it will be fairly small, an animated GIF image would do the job. To create the image, you would need a special image editor -- at least one free one, 'gimp', has been discussed in these forums.

Here's a starting search. For more, use the 'Find' button at the top of this page.

Give this a try:

http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html It is all online so nothing to download and it will allow you to rotate the image and compile it back into frames and then save as an animated gif.

j razz
www.jrazzcreations.com

Thanks ,I will try that but make it bigger as I have it saved as jpeg .

jpegs are not able to be animated. You will need to convert it to a gif file.

j razz
www.jrazzcreations.com

Nevermind, i went doo-lally for a moment

I can't find an example, but i have seen them.. i think

I didn't want to start a new post, and I think I'm looking for something like what Vortex wanted.

I don't even know what it's called? Flash or ??

but I would like to have a changing image, from one pic to another to another, similar to the one on this page.

http://volkspower.com.au/

What do I need to do to have something like this on my homepage.

Last thing, I have offically become a sitespinner user (bought it). The free 1year hosting service won me over

Thanks

John

You can do this with an animated gif. Just take the pictures you want to use and load them into a gif animator and you can do one image change to another. To get the fade using animated gifs just make a couple of intermediate blend files (where you manually merge the two together by changing the opacity of one to fade out while the other appears from below it).

As long as the image is not to terribly intricate an animated gif will work fine. I would recommend you give MotionArtist 3.0 a look for just creating a banner that changes images if the images are pretty detailed and use a vast amount of color. MotionArtist is cheap and has a template for what you are looking for.

Also, back to the animated gif- just copy the frame of the picture over and over to get it the length you want it and then take like 5-10 frames to do the fades consisting of different levels of faded images. That is how I would do it if it were me and I was going to use an animated gif.

j razz
www.jrazzcreations.com

I think that the changing pictures in the sample link is some kind of Flash. You can do it with an animated .gif, but the transitions usually make the file size much to big for a web page.

Thanks j razz, I will look into that.

Phil, what exactly are you suggesting I do, if I don't do the animated giff? How do I do "some kind of Flash" so the transition isn't too big?

PS. j razz you were on the money with that irfanview program, it's fantastic! Thanks again.

"How do I do some kind of flash"

MotionArtist 3.0 is where I would start unless you have some sort of experience or will to learn Swishmax or Flash. MotionArtist has a lot of templates and is by far easier to learn, but less flexible- which makes it good for starting out. Just google it.

PS. I have never used the irfanview program, but I have read up on it a little and heard others write about it on this and other forums. I am glad it worked for you.

j razz
www.jrazzcreations.com

Hey j razz, you are the man. I downloaded MotionArtist 3.0, it's exactly what I wanted. I'm on the trial version but I think I'm going to buy it (great tool).

Perfect program for Vortex's spinning wheel.

Thanks again, and keep the good advice coming.

John

Just remembered, uhmm, I don't know how or what to do to get my newly created .fmd file to my webpage, and make it all work.

Next question is there a way to encrypt my webpage to keep people from stealing content?

thnx

YOu will want to create a swf file (under file) and integrate it by use of a code object or foriegn object.

As for encrypting- no. You can make it private by having those visiting sign up for a username and password and you give it out to those you want to view it. I doubt this is what you want though. You can disable right click, but I would just paste your logo somewhere on your images if you are concerned about copyright infringements.

j razz
www.jrazzcreations.com