Building a Flash Animated Website
11:14 AM Posted by BlogTechno
Step1:Before you begin designing your website, determine what you want to accomplish with it. Map out the information you want to include and make notes of fun Flash ways you can present that info.
Step2:Visit FlashKit.com. Click on "Movies." You'll see many different categories. All of the movies are Open Source, which means that the creator is offering to share their creations with you and you are free to use them and manipulate them however you like.
Step3:Now click on "Interfaces" and from there, go to "Sites." As you look through the different developers' work you'll have many to choose from when designing your site. When you find one you like, you will have the option to "Download.fla" which will save a file to your computer that includes ALL of the files for that particular example. The download will be ZIPPED (which means it's compressed and bundled for ease in downloading). All Windows machines come with a program that will "unzip" a zipped file. Find the file you downloaded, double click on it and your computer will automatically decompress it.
Step4:Open your Flash program. Go to File and find the file you just download. One of the files will end in FLA. That's the one that Flash needs. Once you've opened it in Flash you can change things like text and artwork to make it meet your needs.
Step5:If you run into a snag, or your changes so completely mess up the original file that you can't repair it, just go back to FlashKit and download it again.
Step6:Save your file often! When the movie is done to your satisfaction, choose "File" and then "Export Movie."
Step7:Start Dreamweaver. On a new HTML page, click on the Flash symbol. It will prompt you to find the Flash movie you just created. Click on the name and Dreamweaver will automatically add all the coding you need. Save the webpage you just created.
Step8:Upload the webpage and the Flash movie file to your server. Surf to the URL and check to make sure it works right. Double check in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape.
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