How to build a Flash menu or Flash button with Flashation

How to build a Flash menu for your website with Flashation Flash buttons builder  

Do you want to have a professional-looking menu on your website incorporating Flash buttons? You are not alone. Thousands of people wouldn’t mind spicing up their static website with an animated navigation menu. Elaborate buttons that glow up or sparkle when you mouse over them, for instance.  

This article explains step by step how anyone can easily incorporate a Flash menu into their website using Flashation Flash buttons builder .  Flash Menu Builder. Flashation is very useful for people who don’t have programming or designing skills or have never used Flash before. Or if you don’t have the time to tinker around with Flash for hours or days to make that perfect menu bar. 

Flashation Flash buttons builder .  is an offline tool that uses a wide range of templates (among which many styles of fun, corporate or metal-look buttons). Users can select a template and then make chnnges and personalize the buttons to create a unique menu that suits their own website.   

Flashation Flash buttons builder .  has a very straightforward user interface. You go through the four main areas (button style, appearance, function and details) to define your specifications before you save your creation.

Create a Flash button menu with Flashation in 4 easy steps

 Step 1, download:

First you must download the application at http://www.flashation.com/downloaddemo/flashationfwmb.exe

 Step 2, button style:
You can choose to start from scratch or open a saved file to make changes to it.

Click on Button style, choose a section (e.g. Fun or Corporate etc.) and select the button you want by clicking on it. You will automatically be brought to the Appearance window.

Step 3, appearance:
In the Appearance section you define the number and layout of the buttons and the color of each of the elements in your button menu. You can match the button and rollover colors with the color scheme of your website. You can choose to use anywhere between one and 250 buttons in a layout you design. Besides a straightforward horizontal or vertical row you can even configure the layout of the buttons (by making some invisible and overlapping them) in any design you want.

Step 4, function and details:
Go to Function to insert the text and assign the functionality such as URL link to each of your buttons. Just click on each button either in the small navigation menu or in the preview below to activate the settings on the specific button. Optionally, you can then click on Details to define extra properties of your menu.

Step 5, save:
To save the SWF file, click on Publish and choose Create SWF or Publish for Web. The first will save your menu as an SWF file, the second will do the same but generate an HTML file for you as well. Save it in a logical place in the directory of the website where you want to use it. If you just want to save your settings to continue with it another time, click on File and then Save.

How to insert the resulting menu into your website

If you use an HTML editor, just import the SWF file you created into your page wherever you want it. There are tutorials for Flash, Frontpage and Dreamweaver available at the Flashation website (Flashation Flash buttons builder ) should you need more help with this. The only other thing you have to do is to make sure that you upload the SWF file as well when you upload your web page.

If you want to change the size of the menu, for instance you want it to be wider or smaller, you can adjust the height and width settings of the SWF file in your HTML editor. The size of the buttons will adjust accordingly.

In case you don’t use an HTML editor but do the coding manually, you can use Flashation’s Publish for web option. This will create an HTML page with the required HTML code for you. You can simply copy and paste this code into your own web page if needed.

There’s nothing more to it than this. For just US$29.95 Flashation will give you the tool you need to quickly build entire navigation menus incorporating unique Flash buttons. You can try it out first by downloading the demo version from Flashation Flash buttons builder .

More information and samples of web menus created with the tool are available at the website. A demo version of Flashation Web Menu Builder can be downloaded free of charge from the website at Flashation Flash buttons builder

Flashation Flash buttons builder already offers more than 50 unique button templates, and more will be added to the software in future upgrades. People who buy Flashation now will automatically receive upgrades with more buttons and expanded features, up to the next major version, for free.

More information and samples of web menus created with the tool are available at the website. A demo version of Flashation Web Menu Builder can be downloaded free of charge from the website at Flashation Flash buttons builder