I own a website, http://www.strongfamilies.us. My knowledge of website design is very limited. I have been trying to do as many edits to my site on my own to save some money. What I would like to do is to add subtle animation to the header of my site, perhaps having the clouds move or something of that nature. In layman's terms, does anyone know how I could make this happen? Or, is this something that I would need to hire a web designer for? Thanks.

Hello Mark,

There's no reason you couldn't make an animation of moving clouds, you would need software such as a Adobe or Corel, here's a link to some free and non-free animators. Another option would be to visit our Graphic Contest and let one of the designers help you.

Do you know of any good online GIF animators such as http://www.blibs.com/editor that offers a variety of animations to images? Thanks.

I just thought of something - The header of some websites I visited have their business logo to the left and animated text to the right of the logo. There are numerous sites that offer free animated text banners. I don't need to have animated clouds. Animated text would be perfect for my needs. I just don't know how to include my logo with the animated text as the free online banner creators do not allow me to upload my own image. Does anyone know of a way that I could make a animated file by placing my logo and an animated text banner to the right of the logo for a header?

I think that all I would need to do is substitute the background image located on the layout.css file in the Includes folder under Header with an animated image:

#header {
height: 230px;
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: inherit;
background-image: url('../images/layout/header-background.png');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #ffffff;

Thanks.