Optimizing a website with Flash

Written by Granny’s Mettle


In order to fully optimizerepparttar 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 onrepparttar 132254 sections, pages and contents; deciding onrepparttar 132255 dynamics of your content andrepparttar 132256 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, createrepparttar 132257 website template and review it.

•Stage 2

Maprepparttar 132258 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 ofrepparttar 132259 website are created using simple Flash graphics tools instead of usingrepparttar 132260 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 torepparttar 132261 first two. You could userepparttar 132262 same movie clips whenever you need them in your movie. With this, you'll be able to reducerepparttar 132263 size ofrepparttar 132264 movie due to Flash' feature of being able to render that particular movie clip as a single entity ofrepparttar 132265 movie library.

•Stage 3

Website Architecture- Designrepparttar 132266 website to load contents/pages in a dynamic manner. The download speed is very crucial. It doesn't matter if you haverepparttar 132267 most hi-fi website withrepparttar 132268 most attractive interface and content. Ifrepparttar 132269 time of download is so long thatrepparttar 132270 browser is stuck on "loading…", it definitely will not get clickers to your site.

Using Swish

Written by Maricon Almonte


Swish is an enormously grand way to include flash effects to your site. It includes making small movies run without Macromedia Flash plug-ins. Swish stands for Simple Web Indexing System for Humans. With it you can easily index directories of files and searchrepparttar generated indexes. When you do a search, it’srepparttar 132252 swish program that is doingrepparttar 132253 actual searching. Swish objective is to fillrepparttar 132254 need of Web administrators onrepparttar 132255 Internet.

Swish is easy to use and simple. You can do many things such as stemming or searching for different versions of a word orrepparttar 132256 use of synonyms. With it, you can do most ofrepparttar 132257 things that full-featured indexers and search programs can. In indexing HTML files, swish can ignore data in tags and give higher relevance to information in header and title tags. In one pass, it can automatically search your whole Web Site, if it’s under one directory. Index files consist of only one file this isrepparttar 132258 reason why they can easily be transported.

The most powerful Flash creation tool isrepparttar 132259 Swishmax. It has 230 new effects a Javascript-like scripting language and support for dynamic content and input forms. It is perfect for interactive Flash presentations.

The new Swishvideo allows you to convert your video files into streaming Flash files. With it

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