The Wonderful World of Pixel Art - Animated GIFs and Free Emoticons

One of the easiest ways to give your avatar a unique identity and to stand it out of other avatars is using animated gifs. It is also a great way of making your logo or web site visible.

Those who do not know about creating an animated photos can make use of an animation generator web site which an automatically generate animated gifs from the images provided by you. There is a nice tool that would help and bring you a lot of fun. Flitpics is a free web app which lets you quickly create funny animated GIFs to use for an avatar or for an animated digital signature. You can also supercribe your favourite picture and you don't have to worry about embedding any flash or scripting or to leave the comfort of your web browser.

The main purpose of Flitpics is to create simple slideshows rather than sophisticated animations and it doesn't require registration or anything like that. Well, the service is aimed mostly at social networking users (MySpace, Facebook, Delicious, etc.) who want to pack the most into their profile picture or photo galleries but it is easy-to-use and no doubt that this tool is meant for everyone. Different modes and Flip option allows you to widen the animation potentialities.

Honestly, the options are simple and few. It gives you an embed code, the option to add tags and to pull images from a specific Flickr ID (number at the end of each Flickr photo URL). Have a nice time! Enjoy it! Adding animation.gif files to WordPress can prove frustrating, even for the most experienced blogger. I know! I encountered the same problem and spent several hair-pulling hours absorbed in help forums to find the resolution. I don't want anyone else to go through the confusion and frustration of scouring through all that mess to find the simple resolution.

So, getting down to the nitty-gritty, I discovered there are three main issues that can prevent your.gif file from being viewed or animating on a WordPress blog:

1.) Make sure your.gif image is below 500 pixels. I went for much less at 350X200 pixels. Various theme templates allow for different sizes, but none usually allow for files larger than 500 pixels. It's best to be safe by making sure your file is well below the maximum allowed for most themes.

2.) Reduce the image size BEFORE loading the.gif file. If you reduce it through the WordPress "edit" tool, it will NOT work. WordPress must recognize the file as being "full size" for it to load appropriately.

3.) Change your theme. There are several free themes offered on WordPress, and some don't allow for animated.gif files, period. Try changing themes and loading your file.

When I loaded my animated.gif file, it appeared to have loaded successfully. I could see the animation, and everything seemed correctly done. But when I checked my main blog page - nothing. I read where some other bloggers could at least see an image, but it wasn't animating. Whereas, when I went to my blog's main page, nothing showed-up - nothing. I was so confused and reading through the "help" forum on WordPress, only left me more confused.

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