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Still confusing how to promote your products or service? Just start to get a Myspace for building business platform. Today, Myspace is fast becoming a great place to network with business professionals! An elegance profile page or blog with flash presentation will first help you grasp lots of eyeballs from tons of Myspace users and attract like-minded individuals in the next place. This tutorial will mainly show you how to create a flash banner to make your Myspace profile and blog more attractive in just simple steps.
Here's what you'll need:
1. Myspace Account
2. Pictures related to your business
3. Flash Software (Say Flash Slideshow Builder)
In the following how-to, I'll create a flash banner for an outdoor sports organization to show their concept about "Sports Make Life Easier!" which may attract the outdoorsy to join in.
Step 1: Get the Flash Software Click here to download the sofware Flash Slideshow Builder, then install and run it.
Step 2: Browse
Import the pictures related to your business, and then process with the built-in editing tool if needed, which include some basic functions like crop, rotate, filter, etc. Especially, you can add a hyperlink for each picture here. Below are pictures about outdoor sports.
Step 3: Theme & Effect
Here I choose the default theme “RedRight” and “Fade” transition effect. After that, right click on one photo on the Story Board to set the “Duration Setting”. Set “Picture Duration” as 2 sec and “Transition Duration” as 1 sec, then check the option “Apply all settings to all pictures”.
Step 4: Decorate
“Decorate” each picture with texts. Click “New Text” to add texts, select font, size, color, text effect, etc. for your photos. Here I select Font “Happy”, Size “22”, Color “Gold”, Effect “Fade”.
Step 5: Publish
Modify some “Publish Settings” to make the flash banner the best and then click “Share Album Online” A pop-up window will prompt you to save your created work. Then just follow the steps to upload your album online with Online Album Publishing Wizard:
After the uploading process finished, we will see:
Get your SWF file link code from "HTML Code" above.
Step 6: Embed into Myspace
Login your Myspace account and click "Profile" on the "Control Panel" which bellow your Profile photo.
Before add the HTML code to "AboutMe" or any other sections, please Replace the SWF file link code "http://www.flash-slide-show.com/.../banner550.swf" with your own code that can be get from Step 5.
Done! Let's see our great work. Wanna a try? Just follow the steps and making your own Myspace flash banner. If you have created great flash banner for your Myspace and want to share with the world, please feel free to post a thread on our forum(http://www.flash-slide-show.com/forum/index.php).