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December 19th, 2008
Ever wondered how you can show your own custom image, maybe your company logo or your brand identity when your Toufee flash movie is loading in the background? This feature is now available but only for Business Account users.
It is very simple to add your own logo to your Toufee flash movie. Follow the steps below
1. Login to Toufee
2. On the Members Home page (the first page you see after login), click on the Settings tab
3. Click on the Logo option
4. Click the Browse button to browse the image file and click on Update >> to add the logo
5. Your new logo will now be available for use with all of your Toufee flash movies in your Business Account. Anytime you want to have the logo show on your movies, simply select Use my custom logo in preloader option in the Publish Movie dialog box (Publish -> Publish Online).
Please note that the custom logo is not enabled by default for the simple reason that not all of your flash movies will take long time to load. Hence you have to select the Use my custom logo in preloader option when you are publishing your Toufee flash movie.
Showing a custom logo as a preloader not only keeps the customer interested when your Toufee flash movie is loading in the background, but helps customers retain brand identity improving your product or service recall value.
Tags: create-flash-movie, Flash custom logo, Flash movie preloader, Toufee-flash-movie
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December 19th, 2008
Toufee has transformed flash movie making by taking the concept “online” and in the process becoming a great success story. Users of Toufee have found the online flash movie maker more convenient, feature-rich, and the easiest flash movie making application to get started with creating flash movies. Not to forget the attractive subscription model which many users feel more suited for their needs than an outright purchase of a “boxed” flash software program.
Toufee Affiliate Program
Right from the day we started our trial run, we keep hearing from customers how much they like the program and we had many new users who were referred by our existing Toufee customers. This lead us to consider an affiliate system, something that we felt could benefit both our customers and us. We created a separate affiliate program for experienced affiliates and for existing customers who want to promote Toufee. If you had ever been an affiliate, you are certain to find that Toufee’s Affiliate program is the most attractive in terms of earning potential and of affiliate commissions. To give you a quick headstart, please go through the following link to know about the Toufee Affiliate program
http://www.toufee.com/affiliate-center.html
Affiliate Back Office:
Being the most popular online flash movie maker, Toufee literally sells itself with very little effort and that is something any affiliate would love to promote. As the Toufee movie maker did go through many major and minor updates, so did the Affiliate program. A marked feature of the new Affiliate program is the fully revamped Affiliate Back Office, a full-fledged affliate tool for tracking everything related to your affliate programs, right from signups, commissions, payments – all this coupled with a powerful statistics and reporting tool.
Some of the new features of the Affiliate Back Office are
- No membership requirement and it’s free.
- A full-fledged affiliate center with over 20+ affiliate tools.
- Detailed tracking and logging. With Toufee’s back office, you get amazingly detailed stats for every hit you send to Toufee (not available in 99% affiliate tracking scripts).
- Separate screen for earnings, signup and history where you can zoom into each and every record for each and every detail.
- Fast and easy payment via Paypal on the first of every month.
- And lots more, as explained in the affiliate center
Becoming a Toufee Afffiliate
Its pretty easy, simply complete the signup at the following page
http://www.toufee.com/affiliate/Profile.pl
Logging onto the new Affiliate Back Office
If you are an existing affiliate or if you have newly signed up, your new Toufee Affiliate Back Office can be accessed from the following link
http://www.toufee.com/affiliate-login.html
If you are existing Toufee customer, and would like to update your Affiliate information or would like to newly signup for the Affiliate program, simply click on the Affiliates link on the Members Home page (the firsty page you see after you login to Toufee) to create and/or upate your Affiliate information
Affiliate Questions?
If you have any questions related to the Toufee Affiliate program, make sure to check the following link
http://www.toufee.com/affiliate-faq.html
If you do not find an answer there, you can raise a Support Ticket by going to http://www.toufee.com/support or by fillin up the Contact Form found at http://www.toufee.com/contact.html
Tags: Affiliate back office, create-flash-movies, flash movies online, flash-movie-maker, free-movie-maker, Toufee affiliate program
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December 15th, 2008
Ever since the release of Toufee Pro, the online flash movie maker pplication has gone through a number of major and minor changes. One such major change was the migration to online video conversion , i.e. where you simply submit your flash movies to be converted to AVI format (via Publish -> Export to YouTube option), a process which replaced the old Toufee Desktop Convertor program. There are a lot of improvements on the “backend” as well; we’ve extended video codecs support so you will no longer have any issues with your video files uploaded to Toufee and also the Text effect engine has undergone a major overhaul. On the SWF front, there were a number of improvements to the core SWF builder engine. So all in all, the Toufee Pro moviemaker is now much more improved in architecture and scalability.
That’s just a glimpse of what we’ve done to improving Toufee flash movie maker application in the past few months, but are a lots of other updates which I’ll cover in my future posts. All right, I can sense what you are wondering. What about the post? How do we create flash movies with a manual replay option? Well, for those of you who do not know about the auto-loop that Toufee supports, here is how you enable it for your Toufee flash movie. Select Movie -> Movie Play Settings -> Movie Stops Playing -> Never (Rewind and Restart Play)
This is a nice feature to have, but something better would be the option like Click to replay option, the users viewing the flash movie could use to replay the flash movie if you want. Though this option is not built-in (for the right reasons, since its easy to create this manually), here is how you can add manually this option to the flash movies that you create with Toufee.
1. Open your flash movie in Toufee, and select the last frame to display it in the moviemaker stage
2. Switch to the last frame of your flash movie and add a text object with the text “Click to replay”
3. With the “Click to replay” text selected, selected the Advanced tab from the Left Panel, expand Link To – Website / Email option as shown below
4. In the Link To dropdown list select Frame as the option and for the Frame # dropdown list, select Frame1 (or the first frame in your movie).
5. Click Save button to save the changes and replay the movie.
That its, you now have a custom replay text (or a button) to replay your Toufee flash movies. You no longer have to worry about creating flash movies but not having a manual replay option, for now you know how.
Till next post,
Ganesh
Tags: create-flash-movies, create-flash-video, flash moviemaker, replay flash movies, replay flash video
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December 11th, 2008
The Problem
Quite a few Toufee customers have reported that they did not see any of the changes that they saved in the previous session. Customers have experienced this issue even though they have saved their Toufee flash movies properly using File -> Save or the Save option (on the top-right of the MovieMaker window). After a few tests, we traced down this problem to an issue with browser caching, a technique which Toufee MovieMaker extensively uses to improve application performance. Though all of the changes made by customers to their flash movies are actually being saved, the reason they did not see the changes the next time they logged on was because they were looking at the “cached” version of their movies which lead to thinking that they actually lost their work. The actual fact is that none of the work was lost but because of this caching technology, they were looking at the “older” version of their flash movies.
The Solution
The simple solution to the problem is to clear the browser cache and relaunch Toufee. Customers should then be able to see all the changes that they saved in their last session. For detailed instructions on clearing your browser cache, please refer the following page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_your_cache
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November 5th, 2008
The word flash has always been synonymous with lightning and thundering and the advent of flash movies has brought a similar revolution in the cyber world. Flash movies have gained an immense popularity among web designers and the public equally. Why? Flash software enables you to create animations alongside interactive content and this feature creates a movie like feeling for the viewers.
Flash is an application that works on a multilevel platform. It is consistent across all platforms and browsers and any movie created in Flash will appear the same on all browsers and platforms – all that is required is the correct plug-in, which is really not a Herculean task. If the plug-in is not in built with the browser, it can be downloaded for free.
There are many advantages in using Flash. Flash is a wonderful tool to add games, animations and video to your website. Flash movies are relatively smaller files when compared to GiF formats and other video versions. It also offers a plethora of colors, blending options, and opacity levels with smooth animations and accurate typography.
Now let’s say you want to create a website and you need a demo or a tutorial to be placed in it. You have three options….. the first is to give it only in text, the second is through visual only I.e. only visuals and videos and the third …is a tactful handling of visual and text and that is where Flash helps. Flash movies help you to create a site where you can explore options for effectively combining text and videos. This helps to give various options not only to you but also to your viewers. If used judiciously, Flash you would give the viewers a platform to read, view, observe, hear and understand and that’s what we want, right?
A web designer always wants his website to be interactive and unique to gain an edge over competitors. Flash movies enables them to do this through features that allow them to add attractive text, draw graphics, and create special effects and much more. In short, using a Flash maker you as a site owner can speak to your audience and make that best impression on them. They help to catch audience attention in a quick way that cannot be seen in other kinds of media communications. In order to gain the full benefits of using Flash software all that is needed is harnessing its rich graphics and powerful programming features.
However as with everything ”Excess of anything is harmful.” So avoid getting tempted to use too much of Flash or use Flash where it’s not needed. Why?
Flash takes a lot of space, hence it takes time to load a website with lot of Flash elements. So when using Flash movies, use it appropriately and meaningfully. Think of using it, like using images in a book – there has to be a balance between the text element and visual elements. They should compliment each other.
At the end the choice is at your discretion. However, it is advisable to use Flash as a part of your website rather than cluttering it up with it. So all the web designers out there- Do flash, but Flash in style!!!
So while flash movies can be great for your website, to create flash movies you need to learn actionscripting and programming. Fortunately, now there is a way by which flash has been made be easy… so average people like you and me can also make flash movies for our websites – and without spending a fortune on expensive flash makers Or months in learning all this technical Flash mumbo-jumbo first…
So while all the “Industry Experts” said it “could never” be done…
We Out of Pure Frustration, researched and reached out to the Greatest Programmers to Build “The Ultimate Flash Maker.” A flash maker that can create flash movies without any programming! And we did it!
Proudly presenting to you:
http://www.toufee.com/
The Easiest and Fastest Flash Movie Maker Online!
If you know how to use a mouse… you can create flash movies with Toufee’s Flash Maker.
P.S. We are currently having a 14 day free trial going on Toufee.com, so you can check out our flash maker without actually buying anything!
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November 2nd, 2008
Ever since flash was developed, it has served as an alternative to expensive video as an eye-catching way to present images and ideas, especially for web audiences. However, the process of creating flash movies or animation has always been the exclusive domain of professional programmers and multimedia artists. In addition, the software needed to make these flash movies were generally expensive and too complicated for the average computer user to master.
The good news is that there are now programs available on the internet that are easy enough for just about anyone to use for making their own flash movies. In terms of short and long term costs, these flash making tools are more affordable because they do not require training courses or expensive plug-ins. A flash maker is a program with editing tools and effects that can help you prepare impressive flash movies with drag and drop ease. It is ideal for small businesses wanting to present their products in a more captivating format than the usual slideshow, and for individuals who wish to create entertaining presentations for various occasions.
If you are not an experienced flash programmer, there are certain things you should keep in mind when looking for a flash maker. First of all, it has to be user-friendly. An interface that provides you with an accurate preview of your work is very important because this serves as a guide when you are editing. With a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) view, you can preview all your edits and effects so that you pretty much know what your flash movie is going to look like.
An ideal flash maker also should not require the user to use programming or Actionscripting. These are among the most difficult aspects of traditional flash programs, which are hard for average users to adopt. A good flash maker enables an untrained person to create flash using tools that are easy to understand and with simple mouse actions like clicking on, picking up or dropping objects.
The program should likewise be complete enough to provide you with comprehensive sets of tools, transitions and other effects that will support your creativity instead of limit it. These should come as part of the package you are paying for and not as additional plug-ins that you will again have to purchase. More importantly, it should be a standalone flash maker that will not require you to install and understand Actionscripting. The difference with conventional flash programs is that it eliminates the learning curve and allows you to learn the flash maker as you use it.
A unique advantage of a web-based flash making tool is that can it automatically make your flash movies compatible with a great number of media-sharing platforms, which is perfect if you want to make the most of internet publicity. A common problem with flash movies before is that their SWF file format is not supported in blogs and popular sites like YouTube and Google Video. Putting up your work directly from a flash maker to these sites is now possible though, with the “export” tool included in the program.
Tags: create-flash, flash-movie-maker
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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.
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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~
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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!
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August 29th, 2008
I am sure most of you would have noticed that we’ve updated Toufee website. The Members page, i.e. the first page that you see after login, has also undergone a major overhaul in design and strategy. The new Members Home UI is more focused meaning it will let you quickly get on with functions that are used frequently. This tutorial quickly introduces you to the new UI of Members Homepage.
Members Home: The new UI
The new Members Homepage is now divided into major section – Create a New Project and Open a Recent Project
 Create a New Project: This is where you go to get started with a new movie. To create a new movie project, click on the Blank Project (the large moviemaker picture) to open the Toufee MovieMaker window.
Open a Recent Project: This section lists all your Toufee Pro movies (Please note that this section will only list your Toufee Pro movies and not your Toufee Classic movies (if you had previously used Toufee Classic). All paid subscribers with an active Business Account will continue to have access to all their Toufee Classic movies via the Toufee Classic link at the top of the homepage).
This section lists all your movies horizontally (like the Pictures folder in your Windows), so if you want to quickly search for a particular movie, enter the name (partial text will do) of the movie in the Search Projects textbox and click Go. Toufee will now list those movies that match the search criteria. When after a search, you wish to display all your movies, click on the Show All Projects link and Toufee will revert back to displaying all your existing Toufee Pro movies.
The Left Panel
You’ll now notice that the left part of your new UI has the Blog and the Getting Started sections to assist you in your movie making. After a lot of thought and design changes, we identified the Blog and the Getting Started to be of vital importance to assist users in their movie making and provides quick updates of new features/announcements and tutorials. These are also the two sections that are frequently updated by us and hence it made sense to put these directly on the Members Home
Blog: This section lists the most recent articles from Toufee’s Blog, the official source of information for all new updates related to Toufee Movie Maker. Toufee Blog provides the latest updates on Toufee MovieMaker, information on new features, preview of new enhancements, how-to articles on new features and general announcements.
The Blog also provides tips on effective movie-making and guest columns by Toufee users and experienced flash authors. To read an article, click on the article link and you’ll be redirected to that article on Toufee Blog. If you have a RSS reader installed on your PC, then you can subscribe to Toufee Blog by clicking on the RSS Updates link to stay up-to-date with all the new posts that happens on Toufee Blog.
Getting Started: This is where you access all the Video Tutorials and the Step-by-Step Tutorials. We’ve made it such a way that all new tutorials are listed here, so you can be rest assured you don’t miss those easy-to-understand video tutorials. Clicking any tutorial will take you straight to the Tutorials page.
Searching the KnowledgBase:Toufee’s KnowledgeBase is your gateway to all your answers related to anything on Toufee. Toufee’s KnowledgeBase contains FAQs on all topics related to Toufee. You can quickly search the knowledgeBase by typing in a keyword in the KnowledgeBase search textbox and clicking on Go
Additional Links
As you see in the previous screenshot, we’ve also added few quick links on the top right of the screen to make navigation easier. The Get Started redirects you to the Tutorials page and the Help link takes you to the Support Desk Homepage from where you can access all documentation, FAQs and Toufee tutorials and also view/post support tickets to the Toufee Support Desk. The Logout link logs out of the Members Home.
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