Sunday, April 13, 2008

Must have flash tools for website owners and bloggers

The wide variety of available flash tools makes website owners and bloggers hesitate what to use to enliven web page or a blog post. This post contains useful information for everyone who has website or blog - the selection of the most helpful and popular flash website tools. They are highly ranked swf tools used by thousands of professional web developers and common users.

There are some directories of flash tools (or swf - shockwave flash - tools) where you can find the list of flash software - both free flash tools and paid ones. I recommend the four following directories because of their smart system - all tools are divided into categories and you can easily find what you need.

And my favourite one is


Let's look through some categories of flash tools.

Embedding audio or video to a website is a great way to attract and entertain site visitors. And one of the most popular ways to use flash software is creating flash media players which can be divided into two groups:

Ø flash mp3 players:

Fun SoundPlayer Maker - allows you to create Flash music players and buttons for your website.

SWiSH Jukebox - coverts your MP3s to cool Flash sound players at the click of a button.

Website Music Player - easily add music to your Website with this advanced flash mp3 player.

FlashWAmp - transforms any original Winamp skin to Flash sound player for publishing background music to sites.

Ø flash video players:

VLC Media Player - a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.

JW FLV Media Player - an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website.

CoffeeCup Web Video Player - convert your movies to Flash and get them on the Web.

One of the most popular categories is flash software for creating flash graphic effects and flash animation:

Ø flash animation tools:

CoffeeCup Flash Firestarter - quickly creates complex text and image effects with just a few clicks of the mouse.

SWiSH Max - everything you need to create stunning fully interactive Flash animations. You can create shapes, text, buttons, movie clips, and motion paths.

IncrediFlash XTreme 1.0 - filters and blend modes, 100+ text effects, videos, music, sounds, interactivities, layer effects.

Another popular thing to enliven website or blog is a flash slideshow and therefore tools for creating flash slideshows are also in great demand:

Ø flash slideshow creators:

Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder - helps you create elegant flash slideshows, flash photo albums, flash photo galleries, etc.

Amara Slideshow Builder - developed to help create and design Adobe Flash Player compatible photo slideshows and photo albums.

CoffeeCup Photo Gallery - an easy-to-use photo gallery creator for a website.

FlashSlider - make flash slide shows with photo and sounds, and share them on the web in a few minutes.

And one more popular category is tools for creating flash charts and graphs. Dynamic flash chart is a great way to visualize your data, that's why flash charts become more and more popular as well as chart-making software:

Ø flash chart creators:

Animated Chart - generates animation charts as movies in Adobe (Macromedia) FlashTM format for publishing them to web sites.

XML-SWF Charts - a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data.

Swiff Chart - an easy-to-use tool which lets you create animated charts in Macromedia Flash format.

AmiChart - create animated column, line and pie charts with just a couple of clicks of your mouse.

These flash tools can help you to create an eye catching site content and make your web page or blog original and attractive.

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Posted by Elena Grigor'eva at 23:10:07 | Permanent Link | Comments (1) |