You will find here all the necessary informations to create a Flash banner and then upload it (and so sell it) on Abracadaban website. You will have to respect a few constraints in order to allow your future customers to customize their Ad. You can download a sample file by clicking here to see how does you should make your banners.

 

 

1) Open Adobe Flash Software

2) Create a new Flash document
Create a new Flash document and just click on "Modify" >> "Document" at Top menu.

 

 

Then you just have to change document settings like the following screenshot:

 

- Dimensions allowed are the following: 125x125 300x250 468x60 728x90 120x600 160x600 - You can select a background color - Frame Rate should be equal or superior to 24 fps (a range from 24 fps to 30 fps)

 

 

3) Add "instance" names for object colors

Just click on your "Movie Clip" placed on your  "Scene". You should see the following properties displayed at bottom of this "Scene".

Then you have to add an instance name for each object which can be "colorized". The three allowed instances names are "obj1_mc", "obj2_mc" and "obj3_mc". Be careful, all the objects instance names have to be in _root (on the main scene not inside movie clip).

 

 

 

4) What kind of "objects" should have an instance name?

 All objects you created and you think it can be colorized by your customers.

 

For e.g: The following can be colorized	For e.g: The following can't be colorized

 

5) Can I add colors?

 

Yes you can and you should add colors in your banner. The colors you choose will be shown to all. Indeed the more attractive your banner will be, the more you will sell.

• You can add a background color by changing document properties (Modify > Document). But you can't use the "Rectangle Tool" to hide all the background.
• You can add a color to your movie clip objects (do not forget to add an instance name to allow the customization of this object)
• The result you will see by publishing the document (CTRL+Enter) will be the result seen by all in Abracadaban.

 

 

6) What can't I do?

The following are forbidden:

• you can't add texts
• you can't add a border (but frames are allowed)
• you can't add video / music
• you can't add a link on your template
• you can't hide the background
• you can't use Action Script 2 (only Action Script 3 is allowed)

 

Indeed, the template should be as customizable as possible for you customers.

 

7) Select good colors

You should select good colors to present your banner. You can add a background color by changing document properties and you can also add colors on objects with instance names (these colors will be replaced by customer's choices in our generator).

It will be visible through the search results by all. So the better your color choices are, the better your sales will be!

 

 8) Publish Flash file to SWF

When your banner is complete, you have to "Publish" it in order to obtain the SWF format.

For this you should check your "Publish Settings" in "File" Top menu:

 

 

Then select the "Flash" tab and select both checkboxes like below:

 

At the end you just have to click on the "Publish" button at the bottom and the "Ok" button.
Your Flash banner is now in SWF format, you can upload it on Abracadaban!