How to make a spinner image like this one http://jj4.org/upload/files/spinner... appear so that?

Question

in mean time the actual image or a flash file(.swf file) loads up.

like in this site

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

see the right hand side..

1st the spinner image appears, then after the actual image.

Answer 1

The procedure to make the spinner.gif is here

http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake1....

For the flash it's different, the flash may has a routine for preloader which is to show the audience the flash file is loading, it is quite usually when the flash is going to present a movie or a large quantity of pics.

To have the spinner on the flash, in the building time, the circle of bars are made with gradient color, then the circle is rotated through frames to make a motion tween, it is the much like the gif, except the there is only 1 pic to rotate instead of switching among a series of turning pics.

Hope this helps.