Web Design: Optimizing a website with Flash

Optimizing a website with Flash

Written by Granny’s Mettle

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The trick is to divide repparttar different sections to multiple movies. This will help repparttar 132254 initial content of repparttar 132255 website to load faster> It will also load other content as repparttar 132256 pages are requested.

Runtime Flash Library Objects Sharing- Flash allows users to share repparttar 132257 objects across multiple movies at run time. Here's how you can define a movie clip or object as "RunTime Shared Object":

Right click on any object in repparttar 132258 library panel. Select Linkage Properties and check on Export for RunTime Sharing. Put a light "loading" animation at repparttar 132259 initialization and in repparttar 132260 succeeding movies.

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Keep repparttar 132261 content frequently updated in a text or XML file and load it dynamically so that you'll be able to update repparttar 132262 contents without re-publishing repparttar 132263 swf file. For a more efficient handling of data, use repparttar 132264 XML object.

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Export repparttar 132265 final version. Just make sure you don't export it to repparttar 132266 latest format if you have not utilized any of repparttar 132267 latest versions of Flash. This will make it easier to reach audiences without giving them a problem in repparttar 132268 absence of repparttar 132269 needed version.

Upload and test your website in different browsers and resolutions to check on repparttar 132270 colors. Different monitors project different resolutions. So do check on it.

Embed your main movie in a web page and add meta tags and keywords related to your website. These part of repparttar 132271 process will play a significant role in getting your website listed on popular search engines.

Finally, submit your website to repparttar 132272 different search engines in repparttar 132273 internet.

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Granny's Mettle is a 30-something, professional web content writer. She has created various web content on a diverse range of topics, which includes digital printing topics, medical news, as well as legal issues. Her articles are composed of reviews, suggestions, tips and more for the printing and designing industry.

Using Swish

Written by Maricon Almonte

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you can easily display your videos with play controls and playback settings. You can also import your AVI, QuickTime, MPEG or Windows Media videos into Swishvideo. After that, you can select your videos compression quality, key frame intervals, deblocking and smoothing settings. The play controls are already made available for easy access. The control is complete with play, pause, stop, forward and rewind buttons. Not only that, you can also create your own custom controls in any Flash authoring tool and import them into Swishvideo. To export settings, select an SWF or FLV and adjust your video’s border width, scaling, background color, start and end states.

Another swish craze is repparttar Swishpix. It allows you to create flashy photo albums. You just select your photos, add themes, music, callouts or clipart and viola – an animated photo album! You can also publish your output as a screensaver, burn to CD or upload to your website. Here you can also combine multiple movies and define repparttar 132252 playing order as well as play back options and control your movie’s size and window state. To display your movie, select repparttar 132253 context menu items and about box.

With Swish, you can turn otherwise idle presentation into an irresistible one. Swish offers a lot more, go and check it out!

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