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[minfinger]

So here's my issue, my client wants rototating photos of dogs in his banner. I've got some high quality photos but everytime I make gif file, it reduces the image quality and it looks like crap!

http://littlepuppiesonline.msidesigns.com/home.php

My best answer was to figure out how to make high quality gifs, which I haven't yet, or make a Flash file.

So how to get a swf file in the banner area? or make better animated gifs?

[cflsystems]

Dont even try with animated gifs. There are pretty good js scripts out there for image rotation. Thats what you need

[ARW VISIONS]

dynamicdrive.com has some good .jpg img rotators.

[minfinger]

I was looking at this thread, but it looks like it was written for pre 4.3 versions
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=46098

I'll check out their site.

[ARW VISIONS]

overkill unless you actually have to have animation in the banner. do you?

[minfinger]

It's a static banner, but the center image changes.

http://littlepuppiesonline.msidesigns.com/home.php

When I made it into a gif it reduced the color palette and It's not smooth any more.

[kevfromwiganinlancashire]

By not "smooth" I take it you mean how quick the image loads, can you not alter the variable for "fade" increase the number 3500 and keep checking the response?

[minfinger]

I haven't added the script yet. That image on the site right now is the banner.gif I made. By not Smooth I mean how grainy it is because of the pixel reduction by the Gif software to 256 color palette.

I've got about 3 hours to kill at the airport, so I'm going to try installing the script.

[kevfromwiganinlancashire]

You must be in the middle of doing the alteration because all I can see now is a blue ribbon.

I thought you ment loading because one image stands out when loading

[minfinger]

Yeah I'm trying the AJAX mod right now. It works in an HTML locally on my Laptop, but not when I put in all the edits in the TPLs.