Newsbox- what is it and how does it help me?

Surya · Post by **Surya** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:21 pm

I've been trying to get this info from the keenspace guide and looking through old posts, but nothing definitively tells me what a Newsbox is for? SO I've been seeing rectangular boxes on comicgen sites which alternate images and I'm guessing that's the newsbox. I also know about the dimensions that'll get the newsbox accepted but I don't have the following info:

1). Whats the point?
2). How do you animate them like that? Is there a special way on photoshop?

MaskedLioness · Post by **MaskedLioness** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:40 pm

1) The Point: Shared advertising between Comic Genesis comics.

2) No idea. I haven't done a newsbox yet because I'm too lazy to learn how to make it animated.

JTorch · Post by **JTorch** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:20 pm

1) See previous post
2) Just do it the way you'd make an ordinary animated gif* and make sure it's the right dimensions and everything.

*Make an animation in Flash and save it as a gif animation, or make seperate frames (in photoshop or paint or what have you) and use a share/freeware gif editor to put the frames together as a gif.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:12 am

Most versions of Photoshop, as far as I know, come with a program called Imageready. You can use this to make animated gifs.

Surya · Post by **Surya** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:22 am

Aaah little by little it's all starting to make sense! I'm also pretty lazy Masked Lioness, so if I don't do it RIGHT NOW, I probably never will.