5 Ways to Automate your Site
Editor's Pick in Design Principles, February 2006
Your site is taking too much of your time? Automate it! This tutorial will be your “how to”.
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Bounce the Ball in Flash
1. Launch Flash Designer Draw a circle
2. Choose "Item" > "Line & Fill" > "Gradient Fill".
3. Use the following gradient:
4. Choose "Item" > "Intro" > "Intro Animation" and set up the following animation:
Creating Animated Background
Launch Flash Designer and create new document. Choose "Frame" > "Frame Size" and enter 200 x 300.
Draw background rectangle. Choose "Rectangle Tool" and draw a rectangle. To fit it to the entire frame choose "Edit" > "Align" > "Fit to Frame".
Animating Items
To apply intro and outro effects:
Launch Flash Designer. Choose "Frame" > "Frame Size" to set movie dimensions.
Choose "Rectangle" tool and draw a rectangle on the frame. Choose "Item" > "Line and Fill" > "Fill Color". Change rectangle color to anything else than white...
Text Animation
To create the text animation:
Launch Flash Designer. Choose "Frame" > "Frame Size" to set movie dimensions.
Choose "Text" tool and click on the frame. Type the text (for example "Text Animation") and click OK.
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