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Develop guidelines for animated gifs
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Description
Create an easy-to-understand/implement set of guidelines when creating animated gif assets to ensure a consistent experience across our docs. Includes, but not limited to:
- frame rate
- resolution
- duration of pause between steps
- duration / number of frames before looping
- use of text
- progress indicator
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing documentation's animated GIF assets and any current guidance. Develop easy-to-implement standards covering frame rate, resolution, pauses, looping, text, and progress indicators; done means the guidance supports a consistent experience across the docs.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100