This week’s web design video blog starts with a showcase of a website that has copied Creare’s web design. This week’s web design tutorial is ‘How to create a Shimmer or Shine effect in Flash’. James demonstrates how to do this and the supporting files are also available to download below. The video blog concludes with a look at a useful online web design tool called IE Net Renderer.
Download The Supporting Files
- Download the FLA used in the demonstration.
Flash-Shimmer-Tutorial-Creare.zip 537KB
Video Script
James: Hi and welcome to our web design video blog, for this week’s tutorial we’ll be showing you how to do the ‘Shimmer’ or ‘Shine’ effect in Flash.
Nick: We came across a bit of news this week, we found a website that is quite interesting, so James is going to show us that now!
James: Err, ‘domain’, quite an interesting website.
Nick: Looks very familiar James.
James: So, this week’s web design video tutorial is how to do the Flash Shimmer/Shine effect.
DEMONSTRATION STARTS
James: For this week’s showcase we are going to look at a website called IE Netrenderer, if you’ve got a website and you want to check that it works on IE6 to IE8, aswell as on the Macintosh, it can be quite tricky to test it. So if you go to http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ it’s essentially by GEOtek, you can enter your web address, again we are using Instinctive Horse Training for our demonstration. You can render a screenshot of the website in IE6, IE7 and IE8. This is a very useful tool for check that your website displays cross-platform.
what program was used there for the flash?
Adobe Flash CS4 I think
Say I want to make the car shimmer/shine and also include a slogan (text run across the screen “once” and stay there) and the effects keeps looping. How do I make that possible?
thanks very much just what I was looking for
Steve