It’s sometimes amazing to see the way how technology has made progress. Professional website designs these days have grown from Stone Age to moving age. Yes, we are talking about the static designs being replaced by 2d and 3d animations.
A visitor on your site gets attracted by these moving animations along with the message portrayed in the content. These special effects enhance the beauty of the site and keep the viewer hooked on to it.
Image Ready, software offered by Adobe offers various tools to animate or move the static image. The animated image is compressed in a gif format. This compression considerably reduces the size of the image and thus takes less time to download on the website.
Flash, macromedia professional software is one of the most popular and best software for 2d animation on a website. It is used in various professional website designs and especially in websites catering to games and e-cards. The software also has features which involve action scripting language like java scripting and other web based programs to make the animation interactive and attractive. Many professional website designs these days have flash animation on their websites.
Animated ad-banners and ad-panels are used by advertising agencies for branding or sponsorship. It is also used to design various other things like animated buttons on the navigation bar, logos, interactive games, e-cards, etc. There are certain professional website designs which are completely designed in flash. Many education based websites offer animated poems, mathematical calculations, scientific tests, geographical studies, etc all in moving animated format. This gives all the objects involved in studies a perfect 2d effect and the young minds gets attracted and enchanted to study more online, rather than in books. However, these sites take a little longer to download compared to the ones designed in html format.
These animation based software also offer various features to give special effects to your moving image like filters, opacity, blending tools, a wide range of color option, etc. The outcome is a result of the designer’s own creativity and color theme which makes the animation really exceptional.
Although animation makes your site attractive, over use of animation should be avoided. Our main aim is to provide useful information to the viewers. These animations are some of the attractions of the site. If they are over done or heavy in size, then the site will take longer to download and the viewer might loose interest and hop on to some other website in search of the same information.
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