Animated GIFs. Those endlessly looping online images are always good for a laugh. But that’s not all they’re good for. They can also turn you into a bona fide web developer. Take a look at ...

Reduce the number of colors in the image. GIFs only display 256 colors, but if your image only has a few, then reduce the ...

Animated GIF by Mr. GIF There are some striking similarities between the career of Robert Downey Jr. and the GIF. After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated ...

How to Create a GIF Background for a Web Page. Animated Web page backgrounds can be eye-catching, ... Kevin Lee began writing professionally in 1989 when, as a software developer, ...

Thanks to the humble GIF, no emotions are too big or small to capture in animated image form. Developer Steve Wilhite and his team at tech giant CompuServe had a problem to solve: how to make a ...

Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of ...

We can’t settle iPhone vs. Android or “Star Wars” vs. “Star Trek” for you. But we can settle another long-running geek debate: Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web ...

And when Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released in 1995, it supported the .GIF format, including animated GIFs. Thus, if you wanted an easy way to decorate your website, GIFs, whether static or ...