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Mix and Match Your Own Effects

Want to create a Flash animation such as a animated Flash button, banner, intro, text effect or any and other Flash effect for your web site, but don't have Adobe Flash or don't know how to use it for complex Flash animations? Don't worry, Mix-FX comes to your rescue. This simple-to-use Flash software tool lets you create absolutely stunning Flash animations and Flash buttons in just seconds. What is Mix-FX? It's a Flash animation tool which creates Flash buttons, Flash animations, Flash text effects and Flash effects. With Mix-FX, you can create hundreds of different web animations. Change sizes and colors and you have millions of possibilities! Adding animated effects and buttons to your website has never been easier! Load the effects you just created into Flash, into your PowerPoint presentation, Dreamweaver, Frontpage * or directly onto your web site or into promotional emails. Flash Tutorials :visit our tutorial page to learn how to embed Flash animations in your own HTML editor, Flash file, or Powerpoint presentation. *Mix-FX Flash animations are fully compatible with all HTML editors. In Mix-FX is what you see is what you get. Customize effects by changing the settings and see the results immediately! Want to see for yourself what Mix-FX can do for you? Take a look at some of these Flash button and Flash animation samples and see the incredibly small file sizes of the Flash animations for yourself!

Sample

Below are some of the Flash text animations and animated Flash buttons that you can make with Mix-FX. It's impossible to show you all the available animations as you can create over 500 different effect combinations with Mix-FX. Take note of the incredibly small file sizes!

Text Effects

• Random
• Rotate
• Shake

Text and Background Effects

• Fade-In Fade - out & Flutter
• Blow-out
• Blow-in Blow-out & Smoke
• Techno
• Shocked & puzzle
• Mirror & Stream
• Balance Shake & Casual
• Balanced Shake & Alarm
• Random
• digital
• Standdard
• Blow -Out

Mix-FX Buttons

• Smoky button

Flash Tutorials

visit ou r tutorial page to learn how to embed Flash animations in your own HTML editor, Flash file, or Powerpoint presentation. The tutorials on Flash and Mix-FX in the list below are very detailed. They cover every issue encountered with Mix-FX users over the last 2 years. Many items also relate to how to insert Flash generally and not only for Mix-FX, so hopefully it's very useful to many of you. Please take your time and read through these carefully - there's a good chance one of them has the answer to your question. However, if you have any question not yet covered here, you can drop me a mail at support@mix-fx.com and I will write the answer, and add it to the list below

Html

Editors

Adding Flash animations into Frontpage 2000 tutorial Adding a custom-made Flash animation created with Mix-FX to Frontpage is a snap By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your visitors with your talents! First create your Flash animations or buttons in Mix-FX. Make sure that you enter the correct URL per button in Mix-FX if required 1. Open Frontpage 2. Select the HTML page into which you want to insert the animation, or start from scratch and open a new page 3. Save the HTML file to your website directory 4. Click on the position where you want to insert the animation 5. Go to Insert - Advanced - and select Plug-in. In Frontpage 2002 you should select: Web Component - Advanced Controls - Plug-in 6. Now the Plug-In Properties window opens up. Here you should select your created animation. To do so click on the browse button 7. Now the Select file menu pops up. Select your web animation file from the li st, and click on OK 8. You will be brought back to the Plug-in Properties menu. Here you can edit the properties of your flash animation. In general you can use the default size 9. Finally save and preview your file. It's important that you save the file first before you click on preview, otherwise you will see nothing. 10. There you have it, a nice simple way to add a little extra pizzazz to your presentation

Adding Flash animations into Frontpage 2003 tutorial Flash Tutorial Frontpage 2003 How to embed a Flash file into Microsoft Frontpage 2003 Adding a custom-made Flash animation to Microsoft Frontpage 2003 is a snap. By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your visitors with your talents! First create your Flash movie. Save The SWF file to your website directory preferable to the root or a sub directory of the website. 1. Open Frontpage 2. Select the HTML page into which you want to insert the animation, or start from scratch and open a new page. 3. Save the HTML file to your website directory 4. In Microsoft Frontpage 2003, Choose 'Insert | Picture | Movie in Flash Format' from the menu bar and select the file. It will look like this in the page: 5. Right click on the Flash file in the page, select to 'Play Movie in Flash Format', which will play it in design mode without switching views. 6. Right click on the Flash file and select 'Movie in Flash Format Properties' which will allow you to change the size, transparency, background colors and quality of the movie from the 'Appearance' tab. 7. The 'General' properties tab lets you specify whether the Flash movie can loop, auto play or to show menu on the file when it's viewed on the web. 8. Save the page and publish the files to your remote server. 9. There you have it, a nice simple way to add a little extra pizzazz to your presentation!

Html Editors

Adding Flash animations into Dreamweaver tutorial Adding a custom Flash animation created with Mix-FX is a snap in Dreamweaver. By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your visitors with your talents! First create your Flash animation or button menu in Mix-FX. Make sure that you enter the correct URL if needed. 1. Open Dreamweaver 2. Select the HTML page into which you want to insert the animation, or start from scratch and open a new page 3. Save the HTML file to your website directory 4. Click on the position where you want to insert the animation 5. Go to Insert - Media - Flash 6. Now the Select file menu pops up. Select your Mix-FX animation file from the list, and click on OK 7. Now the Flash properties window opens up. Here you can edit the properties of your Flash animation, but in general you can use the default settings 8. Finally save and preview your file. It's important that you save the file first before you click on preview, or else you will see nothing. 9. There you have it, a nice simple way to add a little extra pizzazz to your presentation!

Inserting a Flash animation into Namo WebEditor Inserting a Flash animation created with Mix-FX into Namo WebEditor is a Snap First create a Flash animation or Flash button with Mix-FX. Save the file to the directory that also contains the HTML file, that will contain the Mix-FX Flash animation. In Namo WebEditor, do the following" 1. Open your HTML document or create a new HTML document 2. Select the [Insert > Object > Flash...] menu command 3. In the Open dialog box, select the Flash file (*.swf) from your local drive or on the Web and click Open or Open URL 4. Now the ActiveX Control Properties dialog box will open up and the Class ID and Codebase are inserted automatically. Specify the Border, Size and spacing, and Alignment 5. If you need to specify some parameters, click Parameters... and specify relevant properties in the ActiveX Control Properties dialog box 6. Click OK 7. Now check what you have done by clicking on the Preview window