That is a large file--not sure where you were seeing the smaller file size,
but the version on your site is definitely a big one.

One of the ways you can reduce the size of such an animation is, on
everything after the first frame, have ONLY the portion of the image that
changes, i.e., the square containing the rotating globe. Not sure if Corel
WebPaint allows this kind of function (wouldn't be surprised if it didn't),
but the GIF Construction Set from Alchemy Mindworks (as well as other GIF
animators) allows this.

Another option would be to restrict the animated GIF to just the size of
the square containing the rotating globe, and make all the rest separate
pieces, assembled with HTML positioning commands, possibly inside a table.

With either of the above options, you might also try reducing the color
palette to 128 colors, or even 64, instead of the full 256--this, too, will
dramatically reduce the file size (in this case, to one quarter of it's
current size with 128-color, and one sixteenth of it's current size with
64-color). However, be forewarned that all frames of an animation must have
the same palette. Some of the GIF animators handle this by allowing you to
apply the palette of the first frame to all successive frames as you bring
them in.

Another method of putting this animation on a weight-loss program would be
to reduce the number of frames. You have 30, now, and could probably get by
just fine with 24 (15-degree rotation increments), or even 20 or 18 frames
(18 and 20-degree increments, respectively). Decreasing the time between
frames from the present 8 to 5 will make the rotation appear smoother,
albeit faster, thus making up with the loss of frames.



At 12:28 PM 2/23/98 -0800, Janet L. Cady wrote:
>Could someone help me with my banner that I am developing at:
>www.evansville.net/~jlcady/images/epiphban2.gif?
>
>I've got an animated gif of a spinning earth along with text on a white
>background.  I wanted to put a thin border along the entire edge of the
>entire banner in the same color as the text "A success ....."  I was
>using Corel WebPaint and for some reason, I can't get the border to
>work.  I tried it in Paint Shop Pro 4.14, and I've been having problems
>with the downloaded trial version freezing up (probably need to try
>downloading it again), or, when I get the border done, it freezes the
>animation.
>
>I admit, my graphics skills at this point need a lot of education, so
>please don't laugh too much.  If someone could explain to me why I had
>the frozen animation problem when I tried to put the border around the
>banner, I would really appreciate it.  Also, if you can add some
>CONSTRUCTIVE criticism to what you see, I would appreciate it.  I don't
>need any DESTRUCTIVE criticism, however.  I've come a long way, but
>there's still tons of stuff to learn and never enough time to learn it
>as fast as I would like!!
>
>Additionally, I downloaded Ulead's Smartsaver in order to compress my
>graphics and tried to compress this graphic in the Animated Smartsaver.
>I get the written file down to around 3K, but the file in memory is
>around 167,xxx.  Can someone explain the difference between actual file
>size on disk and file size in memory.  You'd think this was pretty
>obvious, but does the compression take care of getting the written disk
>size down to 3K, but when loaded on a page, it decompresses in memory to
>167,xxx?
>
>Thanks for helping this ex-mainframe programmer!  Graphics is a whole
>new ballgame -- but I'm loving it!
>
>Regards,
>Janet Cady
>Epiphany Web Designs
>www.mastermind1.com/epiphany
> 
Barn
(Byron Canfield)
http://www.byronc.com
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