HTML5 Banner Templates with GSAP

I’ve noticed a lot of people are having trouble integrating GSAP and the platform specific code for each ad platform together in a polite loading manner. Below are some HTML5 banner templates with GSAP, they’re pretty basic and in no way professionally designed. I’ve included a loading wheel while we politely wait for the page to finish loading before we load up the additional CSS and JS to run the banner. I made 3 flavours, DCM, DoubleClick Studio (DCRM), and Sizmek. I’d like to create a Grunt/Gulp task manager to simplify the process of translating code, so a command such…

Transitioning from Flash to HTML5 banners

Over the past few weeks I’ve been asked countless times how myself and my team are handling the transition from Flash to HTML5 banners. Here is my attempt at answering all those questions. Is Flash really dead? Well, not really – it just won’t be used to create banner ads anymore. It is perfectly alive and well in terms of web and mobile games through the AIR platform. So, why do we have to make all banners in HTML5 now? Chrome will be setting its power saver feature mode to default now. This means any plugin based (Flash) content on…