To increase the attractiveness of your site, it is recommended to install a flash image in its header. As a result, you will get a vivid and memorable resource. At the same time, you should be careful so that the resulting effect does not become clumsy and annoying. Anyone can create a flash header; it is enough to know the basics of web programming and working with graphic editors.
Necessary
Administrator rights on the site, graphic editor, Internet access
Instructions
Step 1
Choose an animated picture that will become the main of your flash-header. Its dimensions should correspond to the width of the site pages. Typically this is 900 pixels wide, but 150 pixels are sufficient for height. The selected image should not contrast with the design of your site.
Step 2
Create a flash image for the header yourself. To do this, you can use any graphic editor for creating animation images. For example, Photoshop or Sothink SWF Easy will do. While the first for beginners can be difficult to understand, the second has lightweight tools and does not require special knowledge from you. Those who do not want to install additional applications on their computer can use online editors such as FotoFlexer.
Step 3
Make a static image based on the animation image, which will be needed in case the flash player is not installed in the site visitor's browser. As a result, you should have two files with the swf extension for animation and jpg,.
Step 4
Open the code of the index.php file in editor mode. Find the block for the header. It looks like:
Step 5
Use the extension The Flash Module if your site is built in the Joomla system. In this case, you do not need to learn the basics of web programming. It is enough to run the module in edit mode and specify in the settings a link to a flash-image and its alternative static image.
