Web Designing Tips

Easy That's how you would like life to be,right?

Especially when you are creating a website on your own. Butthat doesn't mean you want the site to look severe and justfunctional. you want it to be pretty , smart and also respond andmove when you interact with it, while saying all that you want tosay to its visitors . There are little tips and Featuresincorporated into software just for people like you.

Love what Flash can do but don't know how to use it ? Macromediathought of you and built a feature into Dream weaver that lets youcreate cool animated Flash buttons just by entering parameters. Wantto have button respond to a mouse-over but have no idea or patienceto create one with graphics software? You can make a quick and easymouse-over button right from within FrontPage. What do you do if youneed to optimize 150 images within an hour? No need to panic, imageready can help you out with a little droplet. Check out thedifferent tips that make life easier or better for you as a Webdesigner.

Animated Flash Button & Macromedia Dream weaver:

Dream weaver lets you create some custom vector graphics from withinthe software. You can make Flash and embed them into your Web pages.There are different kinds of style that you can choose for thesefrom the available set-play back type of buttons .Arrow shapedbutton, shopping cart button And so on, or make some of your own.

Making a smart interactive button is simple in Dream weaver, selectinsert-interactive Image-Flash Button. Form the window that opensselect different button style by looking at the preview image below.Customize the button the way you want it by adding the name of thebutton, the Font color and font size , then specify the URL that thebutton has to link to . The button is saved with SWF extension youcan preview the button in your browser to see if it looks the wayyou want.

Mouse-over and Front Page?

Oh Yes! The software has quit a fewconvenient features up its sleeve, one of which is Hover buttons.Granted, these buttons don't have snazzy graphics they look liketypical button blocks, but they react to mouse-over and you canarchive it very simply.

Here is how.

Select Insert Web component. In the window that opens, selectDynamic Effect in the component type and select the Hover Buttoneffect on the right. Type in the text that should appear on thebutton, choose a font for the text, specify the URL to link to onclicking, and select the size and color of the button. In thedrop-down menu for Effect, Glow is the default selection.

Try it ifyou can select the color of the glow-check the button in previewmode-the button light up when you move your mouse over it. There areseveral other effects available that are worth checking out,especially the bevels quite neat!

Cool Effects With DHTML :

DHTML or Dynamic HTML offers some cool effects that could make yourWeb pages stand out click Or your page to load with a transitionEffect. DHTML will do this for you along with other little tricks.After you've built your Web page, from the menu bar, selectFormat-Dynamic HTML Effect.

A tool bar appears in the work area.Choose an event from the first drop down list. This could be on'click' 'double-click.' Mouse over or page load. Depending on theevent selected here, the next Drop-Down list offers the possibleeffect that can be achieved , This could be a change in the colorand style of the font if it is text, a border added around it , orin case of an image , you can replace the image with another one bya swap .

Most of the effect toggle Meaning if there was a font change onclick, another click will change the font back to what it wasbefore. However, some effects are one-time like the disappearing actof an image or button .you select fly out from the effects listfor this . On page load you could have the selected text drop inword by word, or hop in, spiral in, zoom out, and so on. This isespecially useful for advertisements or parts of the page that youwant to draw the user's attention to.

Animation In Reverse :

You've made an animation using Image Ready may be a tween ofposition, opacity or effects or a manually placed and manipulatedanimation backwards. No need to re-tween or manually place theframes backwards; simply click on the little arrow in the animatedpalette and select Reverse Frames.

You can also create a rubber bandeffect by copying the forward sequence (small arrow > copy Frames),pasting it at the end of sequence (small arrow > Paste Frames >Paste after selection) and then, by selecting the newly pastedsequence and applying Reverse Frames on this.

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