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How To make Gif Image a Wordpress Header - OK I should probably start posting something. Ain’t gettin’ any younger. So, I’ll try to throw up something about whatever I’m researching or working on.

If you happen to be wondering why your new .gif header image isn’t animated, make sure you skip cropping. SKIP it - don’t pull the crop box to the visible edges of the image. Gratitude to anyone who can explain why that’s that!

I have a surplus of great ideas that need to see the light of day if they’re ever going to be of any use to the next person. Animated graphics in the right spot can make a big impression. I’m interested in where/how to use Gifs as banners and ads.

I feel like short clips and animations will be useful tools, but don’t want to overuse them. Some of my favorite sites use clips in their backgrounds. These are flashy, but uninformative. Of course, flash can draw a reader to information. I don’t just want a good looking site. I want a functioning site.

How do you use .gifs on your site? Gif vs video clip? What’s better than Giphy?

     I started this blog to help me start another blog because the other blog is intended to be more public and I’m a recovering introvert and product of a troubled childhood.

I just want to use this space to let Me out, and to share my weird, often off-beat, sometimes inefficient, always original ideas, creations, and projects.

Ironically, I’ve spent a lot of time in the public eye, and used to wax on at length about my adventures and opinions on Facebook. What is it about a blog that is so intimidating to me?

     It’s not the blogging I’m scared of. Social media platforms like Facebook (especially Facebook), make sharing personal information easy because it feels, to me, more like a home environment than a blog or personal website.

     I did some cool things and had/have a modest following of people who consider me an expert in certain areas. I have the web developing tools and more-than-basic knowledge of website building and design.

Thanks to financial backers I’ve actually invested about $1k in web development education and tools over the past couple months, and could be doing this any of my own numerous website builders.

I don’t have much but I have some funds (mind you, I’m sleeping in a friend’s garage right now), and know how to use several fundraising platforms and strategies.