Swished Splash Page Attention Getters

[author]

I'm starting up a series of splash page attention getters constructed with Swish, suitable for use in the real world.

These are for your self-tutorial purposes only, not commercial usage.

Here's the first, BIG SAVINGS (love that gold bullion, eh?):

http://arrsoft.com/swish/bigsavings.html

source at:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/bigsavings.swi

This one is 800x600 but less than 20K!

--Ralph

[author]

The second in this series of large splash page attention getters.

http://arrsoft.com/swish/finewine.html

source at:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/finewine.swi

Onward and upward learning Swish.

--Ralph

[author]

Ahhhh.... Cheesecake... So good!

http://arrsoft.com/swish/cheesecake.html

source:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/cheesecake.swi

--Ralph

[author]

Caveman rock along using last year's web technology:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/caveman.html

source at:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/caveman.swi

--Ralph

[author]

Panning for gold in this new age:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/panning.html

source at:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/panning.swi

(warning, source is 6 megs but SWF is only about 100K)

--Ralph

[dbd]

Hi Ralph,
Where do you get those great vector graphics?
Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Dawn
[Edited by dbd on 11-07-2001 at 11:44 PM]

[author]

No secret on the vector graphics, these come from Corel Draw, version 10. Corel includes tons of royalty free clipart, great drawing tools, and exports directly to SWF format. You can then just drop the SWF into your Swish movie. ... Having used Corel since version 1.0 and done hundreds of book covers in it plus scads of other projects for over 12 years now, I'm of course quite comfortable using it. However, other great tools exist that allow you to accomplish the same thing. Adobe's Illustrator, for example. I have not checked, but I assume other vector drawing programs like Freehand, et al, would also facilitate vector graphics into Swish. ... For those who might not know, a vector graphic gives you a lot more bang for the buck in Flash, being higher quality but smaller in size than standard bitmap graphics like JPG or GIF.

In general, let me say that the best designers use a hybrid approach to their end product. In other words, you can't do it all in Swish, you need other programs to support it. This ups the power of what can be achieved with Swish by several orders of magnitude. ... I do not claim to be one of those "best designers" by any means<g> but I am enjoying pushing Swish to what I think are its extremes and, to my delight, finding unexplored territory beyond those supposed limits. Swish? It's wonderful. I'm looking at doing a book on it now.

Best,


--Ralph
[Edited by author on 11-08-2001 at 08:31 AM]

[author]

An example of timeless design and a statement as to what must back it up:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/oldcadillac.html

source:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/oldcadillac.swi

--Ralph

[author]

A REAL under construction page:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/underconstruction.html

source:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/underconstruction.swi

Of course, from a pure design standpoint, having an 'under construction' page is one of the worse things you can do.<g>

--Ralph

[ahinalu]

Having problems opening all the swi files from this site. I keep getting "unexpected file format" alerts...

[ahinalu]

Having problems opening all the swi files from this site. I keep getting "unexpected file format" alerts...

[author]

Hi Ahinalu, I'm not sure why you'd be getting file format errors. I've downloaded several of these SWIs just to check, and they all load back into Swish fine. Are you using 2.0?

Ahhh! I see in reading another topic that you needed to upgrade the version of Swish that you were running. Glad things are working now. But that gives us a chance to remind others; you should always have the latest update of Swish installed, otherwise you cannot be guaranteed that all examples here will work.

--Ralph
[Edited by author on 11-10-2001 at 08:36 AM]

[wcoleman]

Originally posted by ahinalu
Having problems opening all the swi files from this site. I keep getting "unexpected file format" alerts...

The build of Swish 2 that you are using must be at least as recent as the one used to make the file - get the most recent build at http://www.swishzone.com and you should have no problem opening the files.

Peace,

Flick

[author]

On the importance of creativity:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/lightbulb.html

source at:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/lightbulb.swi

--Ralph

[bwhittenberger]

Thanks for sharing......One thing though.....whats up with the music????

[author]

I'm sick of rock and the other popular so-called "music"<g> and into Baroque, classic, medieval, traditional folk songs. It's a nice change from the whump-whump crap most websites inflict us with.

--Ralph

[author]

Ah, once a king always a king but once a knight's enough?

<g>

Did I mention I like puns?

http://arrsoft.com/swish/joust.html

source:

http://arrsoft.com/swish/joust.swi

[bwhittenberger]

please don't take offense. Everyone here just tries to help eachother. I'm not saying put thump music in, there are so many different kinds of music. I'm just saying the music sounds....how should I say?.......old technology...you know, like the sounds of the playstation2 VS the atari...

[author]

No offense taken Bill, but I think you're missing the point. Yes, the music IS old technology and a good deal older than Atari... 13th, 14th century at least. The juxtaposition of old versus new, a tying together of Renaissance stirrings of enlightenment leavened with 21st century world-net realities. The meeting of Incunabula and Internet.

In other words, I'm tired of whump-whump music<g> and these please me. Simply an exercise in creativity, others may choose different music.

--Ralph

[bwhittenberger]

im not talking about the STYLE of music.. it just sounds like it was made on my casio keyboard that i've had since I was a kid.(Sorry if you composed the music yourself, I am not a musician.)