Animated gifs, buttons and backgrounds are flashy and exciting to use if you are building a personal webpage or Myspace website page, but animated gifs do not belong on professional websites.

Free animations, animated backgrounds, animated buttons and banners, are really fun to search for and collect for your own personal web page, or perhaps a teenagers personal Myspace page, but they are much too flashy to put on a professional web site.

Animated gifs that spin, twirl and flash catch reader’s attention immediately. If you are attempting to sell a product or item on your website, you want your visitor’s undivided attention on what you are selling not on a twirling animated icon.

Gif animations do have a place on business websites however, if they are used sparingly just to catch a reader’s eye and draw their attention to a sale or special. For instance, you could use a small animation of a flashing sale sign or an arrow icon in the bottom corner or to the side of your main sales text, or somewhere that is not the first thing your customer sees.

Free Animated gifs that spin, twirl, swirl flash rotate and change color are a super idea for teens to build super-cool flashy web pages though. When I first discovered free flash animations I spent hours and hours searching for just the right ones in the perfect colors to make my site spectacular.

Its easy to find and download free animated gifs and flash animations, just right click and select save as and build your animation library as big as you’d like. Just remember that many sites that offer free animations, animated wallpapers and animated clipart are loaded with spyware, so make sure that your anti virus programs are updated before you begins searching for that perfect animated gif.

[tags]animated gifs , gif animations, free animations[/tags]