subject: Alternative For Flash On Your Web Page [print this page] Today many resource masters use SWF files on their web pages. They want to make web pages more catchy and hence more visited. At first glance, it's OK. Flash animations make website eye-catching and engaging. But on the other hand there is the issue that may harm the traffic of resource, and therefore the profit.
Why this is possible? The fact that not all visitors have Macromedia Flash player installed on their computer, so they may cannot see your flash animation at all. And therefore they cannot see such important sides of resource as banners, animated buttons, menus etc. So you can lose these visitors.
So what should I do? - you may ask. I was thinking about this issue for a long time, and finally I've found a great solution. We all know about an animated GIF format, that is de-facto standard in Web a long time. This format is supported by totally all web browsers, so you don't have to download other tools to be able to see GIFs. That's why we can try to transcode our Flash to animated GIF? For this, we will need a software for Flash to GIF encoding.
I have downloaded various programs of this kind. At last I've found perfect program SWF-AVI-GIF Converter, that is able to solve our question. It is created for easy and fast SWF to GIF encoding.
When I have used it first time, I was very impressed by the interface. It is nice and easy-to-understand. Actually this software is not only for Flash to GIF conversion. It can turn Flash to GIF, SWF to AVI, AVI to animated GIF and SWF to image series. But we only need the first tool - Flash to GIF. So at first, we open our flash format (both SWF and FLV formats are supported). Second, we have to adjust the GIF: there are many controls on this tab. At first, we can change the Frame rate. It means how frequently frames move in the output GIF. The higher this value is, the smooter will be output GIF. The next control is a color depth. It is set to 8 bits by default, but if it's not good for you, you can pick up "As in source" value. The next main option is size of the output GIF - height and width. Just modify these values and you will see how the converted GIF will look like on Preview panel. The final 3 options are not so important, but who knows?.. So you are able to set the "Loop GIF animation" setting, so that the output GIF will be animated forever. If you disable that setting - the GIF will be played just once. You can also choose the Transparent color and Background color. When all changes are complete, we can begin the conversion. Just click the "Start GIF recording" button, and have a cup of tea. The tool will do the encoding task, and you are able to store result to any folder on the hard drive.
After you got your animated GIF, you can move it to the server and replace original SWF animation on your site. This is it. You will not have questions with SWF animations on your site.
Download and try for free this stunning Flash to GIF transcoder application. I am sure you will be amazed, and your questions will be solved.
