By Dale Farris, Vice President
Golden Triangle PC Club
January 2005

Amara Software develops easy-to-use Flash web design tools. Amara currently has 4 Flash tools: a Flash news ticker, a Flash menu builder, a Flash intro and banner builder, and a Flash slideshow builder.

Their Flash software is shareware: You can fully try them out for Free before you decide to buy any of the Flash software applications. All their web design tools are very user-friendly, with a WYSIWYG interface. With Amara Flash Software tools there is finally an easy way to design attractive and creative Flash animations such as, slideshows, news tickers, and web menus. Just download any of the fully functional software applications for a test drive.

Amara has set up a dedicated section with info on how to insert Flash movies into HTML editors, such as Microsoft Frontpage 2000, 2002, and 2003, Dreamweaver, Netobjects, and many other HTML editors. There are also tutorials on importing Flash movies into Flash, Powerpoint and other authoring applications.

What is Flash?

Macromedia Flash is an application for developing rich content, user interfaces, and web applications. The Macromedia Flash Player is a multiple-platform client. Web users must download and install the player in order to view and interact with Macromedia Flash content. The Macromedia Flash Player is installed on 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide and on a wide range of popular devices. Macromedia Flash supports a broad range of platforms and browsers, including new browsers such as Safari 1.x.

Flash Intro and Banner Builder

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder is the ultimate Flash text effect tool to help web designers create and design animated Flash intros, Flash banners, Flash ads, Flash pop-ups and any other Flash animation. Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder is the most feature-rich RAD Flash animation tool available on the Net.

With Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder you can use your own photos and music, and combine them with animated text to create professional ads, banners, intros and more, all in just minutes.

The Flash Intro and Banner Builder enables you to create simple as well as complex animations whereby you can combine different fonts and effects and an unlimited number of text lines within a single Flash animation.

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder saves your settings. All your personal settings, e.g. for pictures, URL links, fonts, text, colors, sound etc., are automatically loaded the next time you use Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder. So it's easy to use those settings again, but you can also very easily change and update them.

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder is very user-friendly, and you don't need any Flash or programming skills to use it.

Features

Use an unlimited number of text blocks (lines)
Use different fonts, styles, colors, sizes etc. within one animation
Create any intro or banner you can think of
Automatic 'skip intro' link option
Flexible text positioning within your animation
Many different text effects to choose from
Make the text freeze as long as you want
Have your text appear and disappear at any time
URL links and Target Frames options for each text block
Import music files for background music
Background colors
Border colors
Movie dimensions
Easy to update WYSIWYG interface
Transition Time control
Sound volume settings
Insert background pictures
Save as Flash animation (SWF)
Import Gif, BMP, JPEG and PNG files

Flash Menu and Button Maker

With Amara Flash Menu Maker you can create professional Flash buttons and menus for your web site fast and easily. All the Flash buttons and Flash menus, you can now make yourself in minutes.

Create navigation bars, scrolling menus and sub menus in minutes for your website or Flash project. Amara Flash Menu Maker is extremely user-friendly. The user interface guides you through the quick and easy steps and you will understand how it works immediately. No Flash or programming skills are required.

Amara Flash Menu Maker allows you to create scrolling web menus with an unlimited number of web buttons. Further, you can add sub menus and each button can be scaled up to the length of the button text entered. Amara Flash Menu Maker saves your settings. All your personal settings for text, URL links, colors etc. are automatically loaded the next time you use Amara Flash Menu Maker. But you can also change and update them.

Amara Flash Menus and Flash buttons Maker allows you to import your own background picture, background music, and mouseover sound effects.

Vertical Flash Menu with background picture and offset. Amara Flash Menu Maker has a wide range of Flash buttons and Flash menus you can choose from to fit your web design, e.g. 3D, glossy, 2D, or a simple flat button. On top of this, you can choose your own color to match the specific color of your website or corporate housestyle, and use your own font. The possibilities are endless.

Features

Horizontal and vertical menus sub menus
Unlimited text length
Scrolling menus
Background colors
Import background pictures
System fonts
Unlimited text
Insert background music
Easy to use
Import button sounds and music
Font size
Small filesizes
Free updates
Quality Flash buttons and sub menu buttons included

Price

$39,95 - Flash Intro and Banner Builder
$29.95 - Flash Menu and Button Maker
$99.00 - Package Deal - Get All 4 Flash Applications

About Amara Software

Amara Software develops easy-to-use Flash web design tools. Amara currently has 3 Flash tools: a Flash news ticker, a Flash menu builder and a Flash slideshow builder. Their Flash software is shareware: You can fully try them out for Free before you decide to buy any of their Flash software applications. All their web design tools are very user-friendly, with a WYSIWYG interface.

With Amara Flash Software tools there is finally an easy way to design attractive and creative Flash animations such as, slideshows, news tickers, and web menus. Just download any of the fully functional software applications for a test drive.

For each application, Amara Software has created an online tutorial, so you should have no problem in getting the Flash movies onto your own web site in a snap.

Contact

Amara Software
www.amarasoftware.com

support@amarasoftware.com
techsupport@amarasoftware.com
mark@amarasoftware.com