This briefing is for anyone who wants to make moving pics within their forum posts here on PW.

On the toolbar where we compose posts, there is a "M" with an arrow button. That activates the [move] and [/move] tags in BBCode. Insert your [img] and [/img] tags with the picture URLs between the move tags and voila! Your stuff moves across the screen from right to left.

The code would look like this:
[move][img]IMAGE URL[/img][img]NEXT IMAGE[/img][/move]EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE #2
See a webpage version of Marquee here: http://gear1.drupalgardens.com/content/military-move

The string must be continuous (no spaces or hitting Enter between inserting image tags. That would mess up how the moving "marquee" is displayed. In HTML (webpages, not forum posts) the language command is <marquee> and </marquee> and you use <> instead of [].

<marquee valign="bottom"><img src="URL" /><img src="URL2" /></marquee>

For long continuous things like trains, this works well. If you want gaps of space between moving images, you need to use a blank placeholder image (white or transparent) that fits between your images. I have a 50-pixel wide spacer image hosted in my image gallery and I insert as many as I need to make the gaps.

Most of my stuff travels with a white background because I save my images in PNG like we upload to JG/NS etc. However, I have been converting some to transparent GIF format to remove the white background and let the forum page background color through. Plus, I use a piece of freeware called Beneton Movie GIF to make the animated ones (police cars and locomotives with the "flashing ditch lights").

Hope that you find this information helpful. Message me if you need help!

Wolfman_Six

PS - I am a digital marketing/CRM software and inventory control software consultant to the auto industry. I taught myself how to code in HTML/BBCode for my job and doing webpage/HTML rich e-mail designs. Forums (BBCode) must have the move command enabled for posts to use it. I don't know about JG but NationStates does not have move enabled in its forums, so any moving pictures have to be on a webpage and linked to the post.