If you plan to advertise and promote your product and service on the web, you best learn how to create animated GIF banners. There are many tools available to accomplish this, but an interesting one that really grabbed our attention is Selteco Bannershop GIF Animator.

Most GIF animation packages require you to have your frames pre-designed. Then you import them into the animator, and the frames get compiled, effects get added, and the graphics get compressed to create a finished animated GIF. The problem with most of these animators is that if you need to make changes to any of the graphical elements, you need a separate graphics editor. Not Bannershop GIF Animator -- it has an integrated graphics editor. But that's not all. Other cool features include:

	the ability to animate independent objects
	the ability to develop master frames
	built-in browser to preview your animations
	alpha channel
	HTML code generation
	and a very extensible architecture

Here's a sample of an animated GIF banner created with Bannershop GIF Animator. As you can see, it is very cool!

To learn more, and to download a free demo, click here.