Web Design 9

Assignment #9

Flash Web Background

We are going to make up a webpage completely with Flash and a bit of Fireworks. It is going to be for a business that doesn't exist like i.e. game company, sports team but the name must be something you have to make up. i.e. Nanaimo Canucks, Spike (instead of Nike)

  1. Make up a new folder to save your work called WebFlash in your H:\Web Design\ folder
  2. Start up Fireworks and make a canvas 760 X 410 in size This will give you a non-scrolling webpage in the most used webpage size in the world. (If you want to print to a paper, it will have to be a bit smaller size) This will be a be Graphic "safe area" dimension for layouts designed for 800 x 600 screens:
  3. Background must be use Fireworks which divided background in to 2 parts, 1 for menu area and the other will be the webpage information with navigation buttons. The backgrounds must have some aspect of 2 filters on one or both of them .
  4. Save the background as a background.png in the proper H: drive folder for later use.
  5. Start up Flash and make the size of the Stage 760 X 410
  6. Import to the library the file called background.png using 'import into new layer into current scene', leave all the other settings as defaults.
  7. Drag the background image onto the stage and use the Align Panel as described in the demo to position the background image. You will use the Align Panel a lot more to make sure things a lined up correctly.
  8. Save your flash website file to your H: drive first calling it your first name, first letter of your last name and the number of the assignment. i.e. Fred Jones would be fredj1.fla
  9. Now copy that .fla file to the S: drive for marking in the proper folder.

 

Evaluation: 5 marks

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