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SWiSHMax2 Templates

Using SWiSH

by Collado on November 29, 2007

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 search the generated indexes. When you do a search, it’s the swish program that is doing the actual searching. Swish objective is to fill the need of Web administrators on the Internet.

Swish is easy to use and simple. You can do many things such as stemming or searching for different versions of a word or the use of synonyms. With it, you can do most of the 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 is the reason why they can easily be transported.

The most powerful Flash creation tool is the 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 you can easily display your videos with play controls and playback settings. You can also import your AVI, QuickTime, MPEG or Windows Media videos into Swishvideo. After that, you can select your videos compression quality, key frame intervals, deblocking and smoothing settings. The play controls are already made available for easy access. The control is complete with play, pause, stop, forward and rewind buttons. Not only that, you can also create your own custom controls in any Flash authoring tool and import them into Swishvideo. To export settings, select an SWF or FLV and adjust your video’s border width, scaling, background color, start and end states.

Another swish craze is the Swishpix. It allows you to create flashy photo albums. You just select your photos, add themes, music, callouts or clipart and viola – an animated photo album! You can also publish your output as a screensaver, burn to CD or upload to your website. Here you can also combine multiple movies and define the playing order as well as play back options and control your movie’s size and window state. To display your movie, select the context menu items and about box.

With Swish, you can turn otherwise idle presentation into an irresistible one. Swish offers a lot more, go and check it out!

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SWiSH Max2 Templates - Getting the Buzz on Practical Flash Design - by Dave Collado

by Collado on November 29, 2007

We are very excited to announce the release of a new product category - SWiSHmax2 Templates designed for using with the extremely popular SWiSH software. SWiSH Max is a program distributed by Swishzone.com that utilizes Adobe Flash technology to deliver cross-browser compatible presentations namely flash websites, animated menus, Flash-based video, banner ads, text effects and the like. However, I first heard about SWiSH in the summer of 2004. At the time, I was looking for a solution to dealing with Flash alias text properties (or lack there of) and the only swish I’d ever heard of was that cherry flavored fluoride medicine they made us take back in grade school. Good times.

Like the Adobe Flash software, SWiSH utilizes objects, vector graphics, keyframes and a variation of ActionScript for scripting. The main reason SWiSH is so popular is its large number of built in preset effects such as “Spin and shrink, Alternate jump out fade and slide” which would otherwise have to be created manually in Flash. With this you simply draw shapes and text, add the desired effect and that’s it!

With Flash, on the other hand, you’ll need to understand concepts like layers, masking, frames, libraries and symbols before you even begin! And since these effects come built into SWiSH many people find it not only faster to use than the Flash software but that by lowering the learning curve it is also more practical. Not to mention that SWiSH is a heck of a lot less expensive than Adobe’s software. In sum SWiSH Max is basically Flash for those without the wish, need, time and or finances to buy the actual software.

Recently SwihsZone has gotten lots of praise since it’s September 26, 2007 release of the official SWiSH software entitled “SWiSHMax2″. What’s more, developers worldwide agree that the enhancements and simplification of the product makes it superior to the Adobe Flash technology. As you might expect the new version is not compatible with the older SWiSH designs and software –just like newer Flash versions (e.g Flash CS3) are not compatible with earlier Flash version files and the like.

Because the new SWiSHmax2 software package is so advanced, yet so much easier to work with, templatemonster.com partners & affiliates worldwide could not miss the opportunity to pioneer a new line of beautiful website templates for this revolutionary software. If all of this is making your mouth water with anticipation, it is probably because you know that I have a premium sample SWiSHmax2 Template for your education and use free of charge available for you to download right here.

While some web designers may have been rightfully justified to dislike the old SWiSH software (present company included) because it was inconvenient and had a non-user-friendly interface. That, and the fact the many of us were already so accustomed to using Flash, there was little desire to change to SWiSH. Then again, all of that is very different now.

Rewritten from the ground up, SWiSHmax2 offers hundreds of new features including components, content library and assets, effects browser, in place text editing, video/image/sound effects and an improved interface that is much more convenient and much easier for developers to use because it is similar to the Flash interface witch makes managing and navigating your SWiSHMax2 workspace simple.

SWiSHmax2 is such a wide-ranging application that you’re unlikely to ever exhaust its vast range of tools and features – even experienced SwiSHers will often discover new options and capabilities. Moreover SWiSH not only excels at text effects it also duplicates many of the effects available in Flash CS3.

From now on the SWiSHMax2 Templates will be available to you as one of our categories with our revolutionary SWiSH designed templates. We are sure that our beautiful designs in the SWiSHMax2 Templates will find dedicated fans. Our new SWiSHMax2 Templates will become very popular with customers who appreciate the real design advantages at truly great value prices. To learn more about SWiSHMax2 or, to download a free trial version of this revolutionary new product click on this link.

About the Author:
Dave Collado is the Senior Design Consultant at www.foamers.net who provides quality website templates customization, Flash templates customization, CSS templates, web design tutorials, and many other web design and web hosting services. This article may be republished providing it remains fully intact.

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