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The Latest
- Most recently I added a new category to the blog called
Customization Community. The idea is to pick one template and share
with you some knowledge on how to customize anything on that or another
similar template that you might be doing. The first one is already up for
discussion "How
To Edit An XML Flash Template" I thought this might be good to begin
with as this is a fairly new product and seeing as some of you might not
already be too familiar with Flash and XML.
In addition last week I also put together a list of The
Best Flash Site Templates Ever, the top 5, my attempt focused primarily
on Flash templates which not only brought us some amazing visuals, but that
also generously taught me so many neat new tricks. If you want to get in
on that check out the post, make sure to leave me a comment see if you agree
with my selection, or show me your favorites.
Also last week of July we gave you a sneakpeek at
The Very First PaperVision 3D Template Ever - a beautiful Flash template
with an impressive 3D interface! Make sure to take a look at that also,
personally I think it's just amazing, what do you think?
7 Tips For
Better Flash Customization
Seems like Flash is on everyone’s mind lately, I get so many emails from
new designers and do-it-yourselfers whom have purchased a flash template
and lo and behold their saying “Please help before I pull the rest of my
hair out!” Ouch, that hurts! Generally speaking they’re having difficulties
figuring out this new medium or just trying to make sense of the whole Flash
environment. And who can blame them, lets face it Flash is nothing if not
a little fickle.
Personally it’s over a decade since I first started fooling around with
the stuff, still I do not consider myself by any means to be an expert,
but try to share the many mistakes that I’ve made and the things that have
helped me and hopefully that little bit on knowledge can help keep whatever’s
left on top of your head where it belongs. I’ll admit to cutting some corners,
but what you’ll get are 7 nuggets of prime Flash customization advice. With
hidden features explained, myths exposed and tricks uncovered, these tips
are all designed to address our most commonly asked questions with all the
right remedies.
Website Maintenance
The most valuable use of your time as it pertains to your business should
be spent doing what you do best and letting other people do what they do
best. learn
more our website maintenance package 1 – Flash is an Artful
Dodger Flash has a stubborn tendency for shutting downs always at the
worst possible times, although, I must admit it does bear a knack for inspiring
sympathy, you see Flash is always very cordial about it. For example it’ll
say something like Flash has encountered a problem and needs to close, (cute
little guy, poor thing), and that it is very truly sorry for the inconvenience,
but there’s no time to waist, it must relieve itself at once. And me being
the agreeable person that I am will simply click Ok and watch desperately
as all my work just disappears never to be mentioned again. Of course there
are lots of other good reasons for remembering to save frequently that one
just so happens to be mine.
There are also several options that you can use to save a file: ‘ Save’,
‘ Save As’, and ‘ Save and Compact’. When you save a file, Flash does not
analyze all the data before creating an optimized version of the document.
Instead, the changes you make to the document are appended to the end of
the .fla file’s data, which shortens the time it takes to save the document.
When you select ‘ Save As’ and type a new name for the file, Flash writes
a new and optimized version of the file, which results in a smaller file
size. When you select ‘ Save and Compact’, Flash creates a new optimized
file and deletes the original file.
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2 - Stop Tinkering And Listen Before we do anything we first need
to carefully install all the fonts that came with the template. Otherwise
Flash is going to hit us with a “Missing Font Warning” alert message. That
means that we have not installed all of the fonts included in the package,
and that could result in a host of other issues. Here’s what we need to
do.
1 - Choose “Start > Settings > Control Panel” (Note: In Windows XP, choose
“Start > Control Panel“)
2 - double-click on the “Fonts” folder
3 - choose “File > Install New Font”
4 - in the Drives list, select the drive and the folder containing the fonts
you want to install
5 - select the fonts to install. To select more than one font, hold down
the “CTRL” key and click each font
6 - click “OK” to install the fonts.
Quick Tip! A simpler way to install new fonts is simply to drag and drop
all the fonts you want to install onto the “Fonts” folder located within
the Control Panel directory.
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Contact Form Work - Foamers can make your Flash contact form work
for as little as $80 a pop. Should you wish to employ our design team to
make your Flash contact form work hop
on over to the contact page and talk to us..
These are just two out of seven tips that I thought were the essentials,
I recommend you check
out the post so you can read all of them and feel free to comment we
love to hear from you. And as always should you wish to acquire more information
about our template customization services simply
jump on over to the contact form and let us know what you’re thinking.
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