How To Create Animation For Web

The best way to create animation is using Adobe Flash. Almost all browsers today do support Flash. The other old school way to create animation is using GIF. However, GIF only supports up to 256 colors. It's meant to create smaller, simpler, and shorter animation. For advanced animation, you will need to use Flash. To create GIF animation, you can use Microsoft GIF Animator.

To Create Flash Animation:

1. First, draw a graphic using the drawing tool in Flash and convert it into a symbol (hit F8) by selecting the Graphic option and name the symbol.
2. Click 20th frame in the Timeline and insert a frame (hit F5). The longer the frame the slower the animation will be. The shorter the faster it will be.
   
3. Right-click the 20th frame in the Timeline and select Create Motion Tween and make it a Key Frame (hit F6).
4. Select the 10th frame and insert a Key frame (F6) and move the graphic to a different position to create a motion sequence (it will be automatically tweened by Flash).
5. Now save your work and test the Movie (hit Ctrl + Enter).
   

That's it! You have created simple animation using Motion Tween in Flash.