Posting animated gifs?

I've been making a couple of my cel/sketch sequences into animated gifs; one of them is 77K and the other is 616K. Would it be okay to post them to my gallery like regular cel images?

The whole thing about not being able to handle GIFs is a little outdated. We can do that now (I think) but you might want to try posting them as sketches. I've seen this done by another gallery and it makes sense. You wouldn't want to make someone inadvertantly need to download a 600k+ file without letting them know exactly what they're in for, right?

That is pretty cool though. Personally, I enjoy seeing those and it has been done here before.

Okay, I put the animations into their own section, with a warning at the top of the page and file sizes listed in the item titles. I think that will make them more accessible while still giving people notice about the size.

The gif format seems to work fine, at least on my computer. Yay!

^_^;;

I feel better now. I was kinda afraid when I put my gifs up that I was going to be asked to take them down. I made them as small as I could! Honest!

File sizes aren't really a scary thing for us, but bandwidth is always limited. We're stuck in a rather inconvenient contract and are in no financial position to buy our way out.

When I recommend that file sizes stay small, it's usually in the member's own best interest in helping them build their site (trying to help make their site more usable). There's more than a few people who have gigantic banner images and jumbo sized cel images and this isn't really what most people want to see.

From a usability standpoint, small previews and descriptions of large downloads before people actually have to download are best. Large downloads by themselves aren't necessarily bad, just let people know what they're getting.