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Toufee Launches New Academic Licensing For Educational Users

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Toufee has launched a new licensing program that allows educational institutions access its online flash movie maker software. With the new licensing, academic institutions can use Toufee for interactive learning and for developing learning content.

Toufee, the online flash movie maker application has come up with a new licensing program that will allow educational institutions to have access to the Toufee flash movie maker application. Under the new licensing program, academic institutions can signup for bulk licenses at a highly subsided pricing. Called the Toufee Academic Account, this new account licensing will allow use of all basic features of Toufee flash movie maker application that will allow educators and students to use Toufee to create flash movies quickly and easily.

“The Toufee Academic Account provides academic institutions with bulk licenses at discounted rates so that every educator/student in the institution can have individual Toufee user accounts. We already have a number of independent tutors and educators using Toufee for activity-based learning and the Toufee Academic Account is great news for institutions as this will allow educators to use Toufee’s technology for interactive classroom learning in a much bigger way” said Sanchit Bhatnagar, co-founder and Director of Toufee at the launch of the Academic Account.

The Academic Account comes with all the features of a Standard Account, however, there will be no support for YouTube nor does the Academic Account allow flash movies to be exported to SWF files. Though product support will not be available, a separate forum will be made available for educators and students to post questions and access answered queries. In addition, users of Toufee Academic Account will however have full access to Toufee tutorials and Toufee’s Knowledge Base.

“The Toufee Academic Account is in line with Toufee’s continued commitment towards empowering education through our interactive and cutting-edge flash-based products” says Navneet Rai, co-founder and Director of Toufee. All academic institutions in the United States and other countries are eligible to apply for the Toufee Academic Account. The Toufee Academic Account cannot be used for commercial interests and all flash content created with the academic Account are limited to educational use only.

Why Flash Banners Make More Sense Than Animated Gifs Banners

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

In today’s highly competitive and fast paced environment of online marketing and website promotion, everyone needs to market and advertise their websites in order to reach the right target customers. Flash banners are one of the best marketing tools available for this purpose. A flash banner is a new form of online advertising which is quickly replacing traditional marketing method. Flash banners are designed to attract visitors to the advertiser’s website, thus increasing exposure of the website. Flash banners are embedded in various websites, just like billboards that we can see on high-rise buildings or television advertisements that we see in between our favorite shows. Flash banners are popular amongst giant websites, such as Microsoft and Nokia.Traditionally banners have been created using GIF files. But Flash banners have been proven to return better results than animated gifs, especially in displaying advertisements. Flash banners are generally smaller and they can be used to show videos and sounds. This certainly improves the visibility of the flash banners, since they are more animated and more attractive than static banners. These eye-catching banners can also be designed to include interactive functions that allow viewers to do various things such as clicking and even typing text on them. Certain things are better explained using images and animated words. Diagrams, flow charts and other types of charts are delivered better using flash banners than using plain text.

Website owners who wish to use flash banner in their websites should not use stock flash banners. It is better if you design your own flash banners because other people might be using the same design and your flash banner will not be special. By designing your own flash banners, you are free to use whichever image, video or audio files you like. Customization is unlimited to only your creativity and imagination. Use your own company or website logo, put your own images and sounds, and reach your target audience. Furthermore, you will be able to create a unique, one-of-a-kind flash banner. The message is conveyed accurately when you design your own banner and you can control the size so that it will not be too heavy and slow down the website.

To create flash banners, one is usually required to have some knowledge of ActionScript. However, nowadays there are more options of applications that can be used to create flash banners by just using a mouse. Whichever application you choose, be sure to create flash banners that are not too large in size, as most websites require flash banners to be within certain limits, before you are allowed to advertise at their websites. Also always remember that flash offers a considerable advantage over the animated gif banners because of the reasons just mentioned, so it only makes sense that you use flash banners for your advertising. Remember that attractiveness plays a huge role in catching the attention of visitors to your website. The more eye-catching your flash banners are, the more visitors will click on your advertisements and as a result, you will get more traffic from potential customers.

To cut a long story short, we have designed “the ultimate flash banner maker” so average people like you and me can also make flash banners for our business - but without spending a fortune on expensive software Or months in learning all this technical Flash mumbo-jumbo first…

http://www.toufee.com

Sanchit Bhatnagar,
CEO - http://www.Toufee.com
~Create flash banners in under a minute~

Why You Should Strongly Consider Using Flash Movies For Your Website

Friday, October 17th, 2008

With so many millions of websites on the internet, after a while, they all start to look the same. If you want your website to stand out from the masses, you should strongly consider a Flash website. Flash websites are used by the most modern companies on the cutting edge of the industry. All of the big names in the industry use Flash now. It’s almost a requirement if you’re going to compete in the business world. Some of the biggest brands in the world like Nokia, Nike, Volkswagen, and Adidas all use Flash. With so many people utilizing this technology for their web design, shouldn’t you strongly consider it for yours? One of the oldest methods in the book to becoming successful is to follow those that are also successful.

Flash offers a lot of benefits for your website. The biggest thing that it provides you is the ability to catch someone’s attention. Let’s face it…you’ve only got a couple of seconds to get a prospect’s attention. If you fail to do so, they’ll just move on to something else. Someone else that sells the same product as you will end up capturing their attention. In this business it’s all about attention-getting strategies. If you get their attention right off of the bat, you can pull them into your website. They’ll want to see more and learn more about you and your products. The longer that someone spends looking at your website, the more likely they are to buy something from you. Without sales, your business will go under pretty quickly. Anything that you can do to keep people on your site longer is essential to your success.

A Flash website will also give your website a unique look that you won’t get anywhere else. The last thing you want is for your site to look like a standard, cookie-cutter format. Those types of sites don’t evoke any emotion from visitors. When you can get others emotions involved, you have a much better chance at making them your customer.

With all of these obvious benefits, you should undoubtedly implement a Flash website for your business. It can be the difference between a mediocre website and a great one. This could be the difference between a few sales and an abundance of sales.

While Flash is obviously a great thing, you shouldn’t overdo it. If you have a Flash intro, you should always put a link to skip it in plain sight. The worst thing for a customer is not being able to skip over your Flash intro if they frequently visit the site. After a few times of seeing this, they’ll start to just avoid your site all together. You should use Flash with moderation on your site. Otherwise you might start to annoy people. Some classical elements should still be utilized throughout your site as well.

Overall, Flash is a great tool for your web design. If used correctly, it can put your website over the top. It might be the exact thing that you’ve been looking for to complete your online business.

To cut a long story short, we wanted to make flash easy… so average people like you and me can also make flash websites for our business - but without spending a fortune on expensive software Or months in learning all this technical Flash mumbo-jumbo first…

But all the “Industry Experts” said it “could never” be done…

So Out of Pure Frustration, we researched and reached out to the Greatest Programmers to Build “The Ultimate Flash Maker.”

http://www.toufee.com/

The Easiest and Fastest Flash Movie Maker Online

Plus you’ll receive 175 Free Flash Plugins For Trying!

If you know how to use a mouse… you can create Flash with Toufee.com …Period!