How can I add a banner that rotates between different images as in the example of https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/national-park-service?
Is this only a feature for umbrella projects?
My guess would be that they loaded an animated GIF rather than a static image.
It’s a way around the restrictions on video, but GIFs tend to be memory heavy, so it’s not something I recommend doing as iNat already has to struggle with memory issues on the servers.
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For what it’s worth, it’s likely iNat will at some point covert all images to JPEGs. Animated GIFs have never been officially supported.
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As just one observer, there is something about rotating banners on any website which I find very annoying. My banking institution has one; a couple of conservation organizations of which I am a member also use them, etc. I think as a decades-long avid birder, I find animated GIFs visually very distracting. If I’m on a web page looking for something or reading information, I don’t want my eye continually distracted by images changing frequently at the edge of my field of view. I’m just quirky that way.
If the images were part of a set that I could manually cycle through, that would be different; I’d be OK with that.
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It is a GIF, there’s a URL close to the end of the source code that goes here to the image.
Like gcwarbler, I have to say I also find rotating banners very irritating. I occasionally look up a plant species that occurs in New England, and end up going to the “Go Botany” website, and am very irritated by their rotating banner: https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/impatiens/capensis/ I now try to get any information about a plant species that occurs in New England, without going to their website. j_a_martin, I would advise against adding one. I also wouldn’t want to find any on the iNaturalist website.
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