Flashation Flash Menu BuilderWritten by Alex Bronco
Launch of Flashation Web Menu Builder Flashation Web Menu Builder is a new, easy-to-use software package that enables users to create animated Flash buttons and menus for websites. It was launched into Flash tool market on April 15, 2003. Flashation (www.flashation.com) is first dedicated tool to offer offline creation of impressive and professional animated Flash buttons and entire navigation menus for websites.Flashation offers exceptional Flash buttons with a wonderful after-glow effect. Users can create their personalized buttons and menus by simply changing settings of templates, such as colors, text, hyperlinks and animation. They can use as little or many buttons in horizontal, vertical or even diagonal rows as they like, and buttons can easily be made to match style and color scheme of a website. Users’ settings are automatically saved in Flashation and updating of a design is simple. Nowadays 99% of web users worldwide are able to view Flash elements. More and more websites are making use of Flash but still very few people know how to use Flash. Flashation will help people who want to make an impact with their website to draw and impress their visitors. Users do not need any programming, design or Flash skills to be able to create web buttons with Flashation. Flashation Web Menu Builder is compatible with all HTML editors and Macromedia Flash, so it is easy to incorporate buttons into websites or Flash projects. File sizes are kept extremely low: just 4 to 8 KB for an entire navigation menu.
| | Submitting your site to the Open Web Directory: some dos and don'tsWritten by Donald Nelson
One of most important steps in any site's publicity campaign is submission to Open Web Directory (http://www.dmoz.org) as this directory provides search results for many of most important search engines and online portals. This directory is not a robot driven spider, but a human edited directory and you must observe a few important points if your submission is to be successful.1.Make sure that your site has original content. If you are only publishing a collection of affiliate links or if your site is a clone of other sites that are plentiful on web, then your submission is likely to be rejected. If you are dealing with affiliate products you can of course add content, such as product reviews or additional information and thus show editors that your site has something original to offer. 2. Check your site for spelling errors and in general, make sure that your site looks good. Though editors are looking for original content, they are only human and will be annoyed by errors and by a clumsily built site. It is my experience that professionally designed sites, with good content, always make it into directory eventually (more on time factor later). 3. Be sure to put your contact information on web site. An e-mail address is not enough. I spoke to one editor and he told me that if he doesn't see a physical address or telephone number then entrants in his category "are toast." Especially if you are selling something, you need to build credibility with your customers, and in this case, with Open Directory editors, by giving proper contact information. 4. Choose right category for your submission. When you submit a URL to a robotic search engine there is not much to think about, but whenever you submit to a directory an important part of that submission is choosing a proper category. Go online and see where sites similar to yours have been placed in directory. When you find category that you think is best, then press add URL link. In some categories editors put a note mentioning restrictions for that category. Please heed these notes carefully and don't submit to this category if your site doesn't meet criteria.
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