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This FORTUNE CITY site is FLARE enabled and will require your
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer to be equipped with the FLARE plug-in.
Its only 220K - so even with modest setups it will completely download and instal in just a few minutes.
Because the FLARE files themselves are so compact and feature rich you will be amazed at the download times and quality of the graphics,
remarkably you will find additional tools available to you to aid navigation including:
a PUSH tool -which allows you to slide the graphic images around the page.
A ZOOM tool (default) that allows you to zoom in to the information you want up to an astonishing 25601%
Zooming Out is a simple <SHIFT + Click> of the mouse.
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Test Your Plugin here - Bookmark this page before you instal the plugin
O.K. Groovy? You should see a Test Card above this text
So whats the secret....
Well for a start they are not Typical internet graphics (GIF or JPG) which are built up by rows of "pixels"
known as bitmap images, while they are ideally suited for photographic images and are often produced by hardware known as scanners or digital cameras.
Unfortunately for us, they are difficult to compress without serious degradation of picture quality,
being large they are also notoriously slow to download over a dialup line,
and are largely responsible for the www term hated by Webmaster the "World Wide Wait".
Professional Designers, Draftsmen and Virtual Reality artists have for a very long time been using
"Vector" graphics which are made up of lines - vectors - and fills.
Many vector graphics packages are available and Industry Leaders
Corel Corporation have versions for all platforms.
Others include Xara with CorelXARA,
Adobe with Illustrator and Lotus Freelance Graphics.
A raft of clipart is available from third parties
and do not forget that a "TrueType Font" is essentially a vector graphic.
If you want to experiment with FLARE WEB files -one really great way to get started yourself is to
download Corel WEBSTER this amazing application can convert all your
Illustrator, EPS, CorelDRAW CDR, CMX,and CorelXARA XAR files into a WEB file.
As a further bonus WEBSTER can produce great animated GIF files and superb antialiasing
gives superb results where traditional bitmap images are essential
- the blue buttons at the top of the page are GIF images created in CorelXARA big brother to WEBSTER
You can then embed or use stand alone "web" files at your site - zoom down -
and always know that your visitors can see your work at maximum resolution -
with the fastest download speeds possible.
All - irrespective of your clients hardware.
Get the Web Graphics Plugin
With your mouse poised over the graphic <RIGHT CLICK> and you can see this dropdown
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