Terry Johnson has just released software that builds professional-quality pages with animations, using any images or text on your PC. Johnson’s ImageCAM software can make pages for your website, as well as: Animated Google+ covers Animated Google+ posts Animated Page headers Animated Calls to Action Animated tutorials Any other animations you might need And these are created as animated GIFs, with a frame rate you can adjust, so they don’t need to use up much space in your storage allocation or download time. You select a window (you can resize it) on your PC (it also is available for... [...]

Animated GIFs have been around for many years. They are used in many advertisements, as well as for decoration and humor. You may think animated images are purely for small images, buttons and arrows and other ornamental purposes. But they have other, more serious, uses, as well. For example, you can add animated images onto your G+ page, both in the cover and in your posts. Another example would be to include animation in a tutorial to explain how a certain feature of your website is used or to demonstrate how to use a feature on Facebook. You could even use animated images for showing a support... [...]