In order to fully optimize
website's capacity to attract audiences, Flash has been used to provide highly, interactive and efficient websites by developers and designers. The following are techniques and advice by an expert web developer to produce an efficient and optimized website using Flash:•Stage 1
The first thing to do is to know your audience. By knowing who your target audience is, you may be able to plan your website thoroughly. Planning for your website includes deciding on
sections, pages and contents; deciding on
dynamics of your content and
frequency of update; and providing an initial sketch of your website on paper. This is a good way to plan your website because you will be able to play with it and figure out a setting that will fit your requirements.
Afterwards, create
website template and review it.
•Stage 2
Map
website template in Flash. "Vectorize" as much as possible. This means that your website should have a bandwidth that is simple and highly efficient. One web designer said that in vectorization "the simpler parts of
website are created using simple Flash graphics tools instead of using
sliced images." This process will bring a difference in movie size of done properly. For example, an image of 30Kb can be reduced to 2 or 3Kb.
Create a common set of reusable graphics in separate movie clips. Reusable graphics may be bullets, lines, and other graphics related to
first two. You could use
same movie clips whenever you need them in your movie. With this, you'll be able to reduce
size of
movie due to Flash' feature of being able to render that particular movie clip as a single entity of
movie library.
•Stage 3
Website Architecture- Design
website to load contents/pages in a dynamic manner. The download speed is very crucial. It doesn't matter if you have
most hi-fi website with
most attractive interface and content. If
time of download is so long that
browser is stuck on "loading…", it definitely will not get clickers to your site.