Receiving not so bright / dull Images scanned or photographed by client using scanner or Digital camera is common problem for most of the web designer. The easy solution would be to fine-tune Image using Photoshop instead of re-requesting newly scanned or re-photographed Image. Using Photoshop one can bring brightness & life to an Image. Keeping "learn by doing" techniques in mind we have published this newsletter along with dull images & steps to make it bright & natural.
Client always expects new means to represent their infrastructure on web. As a proactive web designer you can suggest customer to publish digital video (if any) displaying production facility or their infrastructure. Some of the clients also have their TV commercial videos which they would like to publish on web. If client has digital video ready, for web designer it is an easy task to import & publish the video on the web site in the graphically decorated display window with the Play & Pause facility using Flash. Keeping this real life situation in mind we have published this Flash tutorial to import & publish digital video.
Small precautions while designing
Flash Movie reduces overall file size. Optimization of colors,
Text, curves & sound along with other general parameters
keeps size of flash movie under control. In this news letter
we have given example & optimization tips for optimizing
size of Flash Movie, newsletter is bifurcated in sections
like General Optimization tips & specific optimization
tips for colour, text, curves & sound.
Feedback form act as an important
tool to collect the visitor’s data such as their name
& email address for future follow up. Though some time
user fills up Junk & so it is important to have basic
check / validation on the data entered by the user, such as
Name can not be kept blank, email ID should be in correct
format at least with @ sign & so on. Normally simple form
just collects the data & passes it as is to the server,
some of the script returns the error & some of them accept
it as is. In this newsletter we have covered a guide to create
a form using Flash MX which will validate the data as soon
as user press submit button & data will be sent only if
they are valid.
Feature
like actions & automated batch in PhotoShop, you can create Action file &
run it in Automate batch. This is quite useful when you have a Job where you need
to prepare product catalogue with standard small & big thumbnail. This news
letter covers the step by step process for recording routing action & run
it using automated batch to automatically carry out recurring task. For making
it practical we have given example of creating Image in 2 sizes with copyright
note on each of them.
Good
web designers are those who create attractive web layouts fast. Smart web designers
are those who create search engine friendly site. Naturally, everyone wants to
become a smart web designer - who can provide better choice, more value-additions
and latest web design trends to their customer in a jiffy. Designing web site
with Headers helps you create site fast & allows more space for keyword rich
text making it search engine friendly. This newsletter covers Photoshop tutorial
on "Designing Top Panel" with curves & effects.
Common
problem faced by web designer is to accommodate many pictures related to products
/ services on home page as requested by client. Accommodating all the Images some
time makes home page crowded & increases page loading time. The best solution
here would be to arrange suitable focus place / space on home page where designer
can embed flash movie / swf file. Challenge is to make it visually appealing,
here come the transition in Flash as best solution. Using Flash MX you can give
a change over effect between two Images, that grabs attention of visitor which
brings all the important picture to his / her notice.
This news letter
covers free flash mx tutorial on creating transition with blending effect between
two images.
Providing
Search engine friendly site with eye catching Flash at low cost is new mantra
to succeed in highly competitive web site designing market. Client’s must have
list is growing, he expects site;
Must be search engine
friendly
Must have eye
catching Flash on the web site &
Must be cost effective
Simple solution is designing a web site with top panel in
flash, this saves time & cost compare to designing full flash site, designing
only top panel in Flash allows designer to incorporate text in bottom part of
the page, which meets one of the general rules of SEO to have keyword rich text
on every page. This news letter covers designing top panel in Flash along with
navigation bar.
Web
designing pattern are changing rapidly to match the fast changing SEO (search
engine optimization) rules. Focus is getting diverted towards more of text &
less of graphics to make web site search engine friendly. To face the challenge
web designers are now concentrating on Top Panel designing, leaving other portion
of page open for text, to maintain balance between look & technicality. This
newsletter covers photoshop tutorial to design great looking fast loading panel
in Photoshop
Let us assume a situation wherein client want to focus more number of products
horizontally on the home page / or in the presentation; clicking on which he expects
visitor to visit the particular product page. Creating Horizontal scrolling menu
panel using Flash MX Action Script this situation can be handled. According to
horizontal movement of the mouse on the menu panel, products / buttons will scroll
with a link to each of them.
Adjusting content window based on size of text / content is possible using Flash.
Flash allows lots of flexibility while designing a site. Based on certain pre
assumed condition display to the user can be adjusted using Action script. This
tutorial covers a situation wherein content window will be adjusted based on the
size of text.
To keep visitor involve on the site, it some time helps to have small flash games,
though it depends on the product / services you sell. Other scenario is when your
site is going to take little long to load, (May be due to heavy graphics which
is must for products displayed on the site) you can offer small game in the corner
which keeps visitor busy while your site loads. Predicting these situations, we
are covering second newsletter in the series of How to create Flash Games?
Optimization is a process
of fine-tuning the display quality and file size of an image for use on the web.You
can optimize images in three major graphic formats used on the webGIF (Graphics
Interchanged Format), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), and PNG-8 or PNG-24
(Portable Network Graphics, with 8-bit or 24-bit colour).
Attractive
banners prompt users to click & thus it act as an important entry point to
your site. Animated banners attract more attention compare to static banner. Apart
from advertisement, banners also helps grabbing the attention of visitors for
other products & services listed on the same site. Flash makes is very easy
to create animated banners. This issue of newsletter deals with “Creating
animated banners using Flash MX”
Our
aim is to provide you with practical training, because when you actually use the
functionality of software it helps you co-relate the steps & create your own
Module / design / function. Creating of game in Flash requires use of Actions,
this newsletter covers developing small game using Flash MX that stores the current
as well as previous highest score. These steps will involve use of actions &
you will get an idea using which action you can develop particular function.
Web
designer prefers on click menu effect, to indicate the active / clicked button
with respect to the page content; this helps smooth navigation on the web site.
In this newsletter, we are going to make a jumping 3D box menu effect. This is
just like a web site menu containing five buttons. On click of any of these buttons,
a 3D rolling box will appear on top of the respective button.
Using
Flash, we can develop modules / movie to call external files, this helps using
the same module / movie for displaying different products / services. This tutorial
involves creating a movie in which you will dynamically load images into a movie
clip from an external folder. On click of a button, these images will scroll with
sliding effect.
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