Sea portal.. need help

[anaerobic]

helo all. i am looking for some ideas and some help. i have to make a website with tropical; beach as the header.
i search the web and get some good tropical images.. but they just aernt good enough..
so can anyone provide me with some ideas as how do i get a strat with this?
i am also looking for ideas as to what sort of animation i can put in the header...:S
is it possible to make the sea water move? or the plan tree leavs?
please help!!

[dalan66]

anaerobic,

Couple of things you should look to do.

If you know that you are going to make the palm trees move, you should probobly just draw the palm trees, or download some pics of some palm trees just the way you want them, then animate the movement by layering the palm tree and some of the leaves.

As far as the ocean goes, that will be a bit more difficult, but take a look in the other forums for downloads of the images and the files you need.

Remember to pay attention to the directives, and remember to give credit to those that ask for it. If it is a commercial endeavor, sending a few dollars to the developers of images and swf files is sometimes requested.

Over the few years that I have been envolved with web development, a quick email or telephone call to the prespective (hope I spelled that correctly) source developer always makes your life easier.

As this community is very large, giving more detail to what you are looking for may also help.

Lastly, do a "google" for royalty free carribean pics or something like that, you will get more than you need.

Before I forget and in closing, I have seen many things done with the drawing tools in swishmax. I have been a Swish user since version 1.2 or so in 2000, and have been using it primarily until about 4 months ago when I purchased SwishMax. I have seen some wonderful images and work drawn fully in SwishMax. Take a look at Ms Pamelas website, and her portfolio. It is very impressive, all drawn in Swish.