Using_Swish
| Using Swish
Swish is an enormously grand way to include flash effects to
your site. It includes making small movies run without
Macromedia Flash plug-ins. Swish stands for Simple Web Indexing
System for Humans. With it you can easily index directories of
files and search the generated indexes. When you do a search,
it’s the swish program that is doing the actual searching. Swish
objective is to fill the need of Web administrators on the
Internet.
Swish is easy to use and simple. You can do many things such as
stemming or searching for different versions of a word or the
use of synonyms. With it, you can do most of the things that
full-featured indexers and search programs can. In indexing HTML
files, swish can ignore data in tags and give higher relevance
to information in header and title tags. In one pass, it can
automatically search your whole Web Site, if it’s under one
directory. Index files consist of only one file this is the
reason why they can easily be transported.
The most powerful Flash creation tool is the Swishmax. It has
230 new effects a Javascript-like scripting language and support
for dynamic content and input forms. It is perfect for
interactive Flash presentations.
The new Swishvideo allows you to convert your video files into
streaming Flash files. With it you can easily display your
videos with play controls and playback settings. You can also
import your AVI, QuickTime, MPEG or Windows Media videos into
Swishvideo. After that, you can select your videos compression
quality, key frame intervals, deblocking and smoothing settings.
The play controls are already made available for easy access.
The control is complete with play, pause, stop, forward and
rewind buttons. Not only that, you can also create your own
custom controls in any Flash authoring tool and import them into
Swishvideo. To export settings, select an SWF or FLV and adjust
your video’s border width, scaling, background color, start and
end states.
Another swish craze is the Swishpix. It allows you to create
flashy photo albums. You just select your photos, add themes,
music, callouts or clipart and viola – an animated photo album!
You can also publish your output as a screensaver, burn to CD or
upload to your website. Here you can also combine multiple
movies and define the playing order as well as play back options
and control your movie’s size and window state. To display your
movie, select the context menu items and about box.
With Swish, you can turn otherwise idle presentation into an
irresistible one. Swish offers a lot more, go and check it out!
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