MAKING AND INSERTING FLASH BUTTONS

ABOUT

Flash is a popular authoring software developed by Macromedia (now Adobe), it is used to create vector graphics-based animation programs with full-screen navigation interfaces, graphic illustrations, and simple interactivity in an antialiased, realisable file format that is small enough to stream across a normal modem connection. Flash is the professional standard authoring tool for producing high-impact Web experiences. Whether you are creating animated logos, web site navigation controls (buttons, menus etc.), long-form animations, entire Flash website's, or web applications, you'll find the power and flexibility of Flash ideal for your own creativity. Flash comes in SWF ( Shockwave Flash file) format and can easily be inserted into your web authoring tool (Dreamweaver, FrontPage etc.). To get FREE flash buttons and menus visit Flash Vortex and Flash Buttons.

EXAMPLES

DataProbe
Cars
Lightning

TUTORIAL#2

STEP 1:

There are several different ways to insert Flash into your web page. For this example we are going to use the Flash Vortex generator, with this generator you simply create your Menu, Buttons and then embed the code into the <BODY> tag of your web page, additionally you will need download the SWF (Flash) file and place it in the same location as your web page. If you would like to simply enter one piece of code into your web page without downloading view Tutorial#1. Firstly go to the Flash Vortex website, just click here. With the Menus Tab selected, choose a Menu (for this one I have used Cars), select the text link - CLICK HERE TO EDIT THIS.

STEP 2:

Insert your required button text and address's (or us the following text) as shown below:

Change the Background colour to white or the background of your web page:

Select the Generate Animation button.

STEP 3:

The "Choose your Installation" window will open. For this example I used the Advanced installation option. Select the download button and download the SWF (Flash) file to the same location as your web pages.

STEP 4:

STEP 5.

Insert your new Flash object into your web page. Save your file and test it in a browser.