Monday, 15 December 2014

navigation bar

This was what i finaly ended up with after some troubles hear are my notes that i took down to help me.


  1.Select action script 3.0 after you have loaded flash
2.Select rectangle tool then fill colour and select gradient after making a box
3.After selecting the gradient go to the free transform then gradient transform then click on the box and change the gradient to make it look better.
4.right click then go to convert symbol name it navigation button home the type should be button and it should be centre alined the click ok.
5.Convert it to a movie clip and name it navigation movie home then in the time line where it has up over down hit use the alt button and drag it over to hit then do the same for up to over.
6.On over then go to properties and chose cover effect and then brightness and change it to about 30%
then on the hit state change it to 64% and then change the layer name on navigation home with a text box the type home this will be for you home button.
7. Then insert the layer 3 times then rename the new 3 clients,services and contact us
8. Lock the 1st layer click second layer select button in the layers and duplicate it and name it clients then after you click ok click and drag your new button on to the page
9.Repet this proses for the other buttons remembering to lock each layer before you change the next layer each time yo do this then to confirm that its working go to control then test
10. Then go to properties to change your page after you finish this and change the position and size to fit your navigation bar.

if these notes did not help hear is a video tutorial that can help you understand.
      What i could have done to make this more interesting i could have changed the font and culores to make it look better. I also could have changed the shape of my buttons to other shapes like cercals or inserted my own pictures/stickers to make them look more interesting. another idea i would like to try would be to insert sound when clicking on a button or a animation when you hover over it like flashing light or something to that affect. here are some exsamples.

    A idea that i started on