derstinger - 9:19 pm on Feb 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hello everyone, i need to pick your brains!

My work is more art orientated rather than clean technical design, and up until now just having nice graphics has seen me through (asthetically anyway!). However, more and more people are asking about animations when it comes to user interactivity.

These range from animated galleries where images pop up in a nice fluid motion, to fully animated (and functional) interfaces and buttons. Fancy moving header graphics also seem to be getting more popular.

Ive been warned off using flash for a host of reasons including cross browser comp, pop up blockers, bad seo ect but it seems i need to really start looking at taking a step forward and animating a little of what i draw.

I have Flash cs3 which ive used very little and ive seen lots on the web about jquery and ajax. I have no scripting experience whatsoever.

What do you think would be my most relable way of animating a little of my websites so that they run across browsers and load in good time? What kind of format or script language should i concentrate on learning?

Thanks in advance