Flash menus for your website made by you
Posted on April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Technology
The secret of the success of any website is the memorability of elements comprised in it. At the same time, it is important for these fun elements to have mercy to the load times. I thought that flash menu could solve the problem. The flash menu may resolve even 2 complexities: to make the site more attractive and to make the navigation system more understandable. The size of flash menu in kilobytes is truly small.
Some people think that flash menu is quite complicated thing to design. I realized that my experience wouldn't be enough to make the website and I didn't desire to flash become more than hobby for me. I didn't have much money to employ the appropriate specialist who would design the flash interface. I always notice that there is no reason to install any additional software. In the Internet you may find a great deal of various software programs for creation of flash menu component. Lots of such programs are actually hard to use and you usually need to pay some money for them.
The solution met me through a search engine. Animated flash menu maker is the wonderful program which can truly assist me to solve current problem. That is free of charge and demands no installation. There is a very primitive scheme: you simply need to visit the website, run application and then you may use it. Only define the parameters for the component which you would like to get in the result.
The operations took me around 10 minutes to create my first menu online. It was brown with a few dropdown options hat I had thoroughly thought over. When my chef d'oeuvre was ready, I downloaded the designed menu and following simple prompts managed to get that menu onto my website. It took me a little time to perform several steps, but I am not particularly experienced with web technologies. For users that have some experience these actions would take considerably less time.
I showed the flash component to several flash specialists. They announced that it is designed absolutely properly and they couldn't believe that it is designed only by the Internet service.
Another interesting option can be used. That is a desktop menu version with XML properties which can be downloaded from that site. To change the menu according to you requirements you simply need to change some XML properties.
Everybody that enters my site thinks that I am a real expert, because it looks very pleasant and appropriately. This program can help you to make your website really wonderful by means of animated flash menu.