Web Design: a collection of progress bars

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In the past I've published a post about developing a progress bar/indicator for ASP pages. In that article we used a small rounded gif to make the user aware of the fact that something is going on and information is gathered.
Today, for your joy, I want to share my collection of animated gifs that can be used as progress bar. Some are simple, some are a little bit bizarre and some are a little bit intrusive.
You can choose the one you prefer, and use it on your pages. I believe they all are copyright free, but if you recognized your copyrighted work here, just drop a line and I will give credit to you or remove it, if you prefer.

Here we go... the great progress bar parade! (this post is some kind of a joke or not?)

Web Design: animated photos

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Recently I found an interesting article on the Smashing Magazine about CSS, HTML and JavaScript tools. The thing that struck me was at the very end of the article and it was referring to a blog called From Me to You. The remarkable thing about it, is that the author creates animated photos. Let me explain to you by showing the following photo:

Look closely at the tomatoes: there are drops of water falling onto them. Now that's an animated gif, isn't it? It weights 218kb, which is a lot. However there's a trick in order to create those animated photos, by keeping the weight lower and thus not wasting bandwidth.