Animated GIFs

[theitgirl]

I've been asked to create an animated gif banner (468x60) for work and I'm useless at thinking up ways to be creative with these.

Does anyone know of a good website where I could buy a template or something.

I normally use istockphoto but they only really have complex flash ones and I need a gif.

Thank you!

[pete_coles]

My advice would be just to keep it simple, use a nice font and some decent typography and get your message across.
Animated gif's are very hard to be creative with as you are really limited by factors such as space, filesize and different aspect ratios.

If you need some stock images i suggest sxc.hu - they are free and most can be used commercially

Hope you get something sorted

Pete