As some of you have noticed, PTE's been sporting 2 different banners at the same time for a bit now. I've been trying to test an animated banner, to see how well it works. It's certainly more attention grabbing, though I've found different pros and cons for both picture and animation. With the plain picture, its main con is that it is always a static image. Another issue is it's sizing. No matter the size I make it, it's size can be altered by the coding set in the template, therefore my banner can end up 200px wide and left aligned. ...which looks ridiculous. All that said, the main pro to picture banners is that pictures naturally load much much faster than an animation. Animation looks much nicer, can have its size set with its coding, and can even be giving settings so that it starts static like a picture and turns dynamic by the actions of the user. (i.e. hovering over or pressing a button) However its filesize can bog down PTE, making the page n...