About templates

The Flash templates provide you with easy-to-use starting points for a range of common projects. There are templates for projects such as photo slideshows, quizzes, mobile content, and more.

Mobile device templates

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional content is viewable across multiple browsers, platforms, and mobile phones. You can author the following:

  • High-quality animations

  • Games

  • Rich-media custom user interfaces for devices and desktop systems

  • E-commerce and business solutions

Flash files are compact, which makes them suitable for wireless carrier networks, where transfer rates vary between 9.6 and 60 kilobytes per second (Kbps). Mobile devices have limited storage capability, so the small memory requirement of Flash is ideal.

Mobile device templates let you create content for many mobile devices. Use the device skins in the templates to preview content as it will look on the device.

Note: The skins are on guide layers and won’t export with your content or appear at runtime.

For more information on authoring Flash files for mobile devices, see the Adobe Mobile Devices site at www.adobe.com/go/devnet_devices.

Quiz templates

Use the quiz templates to create self-scoring quizzes with several interaction types.

Advertising templates

Advertising templates facilitate the creation of standard rich media types and sizes defined by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and accepted by the industry. For more information on IAB-endorsed ad types, see the IAB site at IAB.net.

Test ads for stability in a variety of browser and platform combinations. Your application is considered stable if it doesn’t cause error messages, browser crashes, or system crashes.

Work with webmasters and network administrators to create detailed testing plans that include tasks relevant to your users. Make these plans publicly available and update them regularly. Vendors should publish detailed plans indicating the browser and platform combinations in which their technologies are stable. Examples are available at the IAB Rich Media testing section of IAB.net. Size and file format requirements of ads might vary by vendor and site. Check with your vendor, ISP, or the IAB to learn about these requirements that can affect the ad’s design.

Photo slideshow templates

Use the photo slideshow template to exhibit your photos with text captions and playback controls.

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