How to improve flash on your website
A lot of webmasters like using flash on their websites because they feel that it makes the site look professional and up to date. However when Flash takes too long to load, it really serves no purpose because no browsers have very little patience when it comes to the internet. You can use the following techniques to make the Flash load faster on your website:
Generally though Flash works fine with raster graphics, it isn’t really the preferred choice of graphics. Vector graphics are much preferred. Raster graphics use formats like BMP, JPEG and GIF which are basically pixels of color. Vector graphics on the other hand are essentially mathematical equations which produce graphics that don’t add too much to the size of the file. Vector graphics are also completely scalable. Thus although raster graphics are okay occasionally, try to stick to vectors.
Try to optimize your images as far as possible. Use the modify- smoothen, straighten and optimize commands on the menu bar to refine the shapes and lines. This may also help you reduce the original size of your image. You can use these commands till you are satisfied with the level of optimization of the graphic.
There is also a trace bitmap command in the modify menu. This command converts a bitmap into a vector image though the quality of the conversion depends on the complexity of the image. Generally .gifs convert better than .jpgs. You can always play around with commands to see how it affects the graphics.
Thus there are ways that you can improve the speed of Flash as it loads on your website. It is very essential for it to load fast otherwise there isn’t much use of putting it up there. More tips on how to improve your website next week.
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