Hey all, these are my first flash designs I know 2 of them are pixilized but no idea how to solve it. Anyhow I would like some comments www.sela-tech.com/templates/template.html www.sela-tech.com/templates/template2.html www.sela-tech.com/templates/template3.html Thanks!
What do you mean when you say pixilized? They don't look too pixilated. I like the 2nd one the best - it's the least cluttered. The 1st one is a bit stretched - if you make it more like the 2nd one, a more central layout, I think that would work well. The 3rd one - I like the flash banner at the top, but I think it's a bit too much. But, overall, good job!
First of all, thanks for the comment. Well I admit the second one looks the best here but if you fill the first and the 3rd with info, pictures and a nice slide show or somthing like that, it gets to be much better. I can make the 1st one in the form of the 2nd to prevent the stretching but I tried it and it looks a bit too shaped since its a rectangle and not roundy. the small site in a background is not always the best solution also since if you've got a big monitor and high quality, you wouldnt want to barely see this site and see a lot of background, but still I'm in favour of this technique.
Your pictures get pixelised probably because you allow your site to resize and stretch, which is not good practise in Flash. Also, in flash, if you right-click on your pics in the library, click properties, and check the box that says "allow smoothing", that will help. As for the layout, you would need to look into designing "fluid" templates ;-) Check this tut' out: http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=FD491
The person viewing the flash website shouldn't have to right click to "smooth" out anything. If you created the website in flash just 1. File> Publish Preview> HTML This should output the flash inside the html with the right dimensions. Good luck with your projects.
I realised I wasn't that clear in my first post: 1- Whether it is using Flash or any other methods to display images on the web, it is not good practise to allow your images to be resized at runtime. Your images should be optimised for web in photoshop or else, and be kept at that size when rendering. 2- When developing a site using Adobe Flash, you can either import your images directly in Flash and work on them at author time, or you can also import the images dynamically at runtime. If you import your images directly in Flash (The software), then you can right-click on those bitmaps in the flash library where they are stored and alter some properties. Flash has an option to allow image smoothing at runtime (Right-click image in Library --> Properties --> allow smoothing). This will help when you do need to resize your images slightly at runtime, when doing some _xscale/_yscale tweening for example. 3- As to publishing a flash site, the latest trend is to make fluid full screen sites, which will adapt to the user's screen res. without stretching the content, which cannot be done by using the default flash html publishing tool, but rather by using some actionscript - as explained in the tutorial I linked to. Hope this is a bit clearer and Merry Christmas to you all!