Chart or graph
is a method of representing numerical data in a pictorial form.
To represent numerical data on a web page, one can use either
static image chart or animated dynamic chart. Animated charts
are created in a form of flash “movie” – SWF file. This format
has a lot of advantages for flash
graphing – chart can be not only supplied with animation effects,
it can also be interactive and represent dynamic real-time
data. Besides, SWF file format was developed exactly for web publishing
so an SWF chart file is rather small. Animated Chart software
creates both static and animated charts, and real-time dynamic flash
charts (live charts).
If you’re still hesitating
whether you need to represent data as a flash chart or not, consider
following facts:
Charts are
comprehended by the reader over 80 times faster than text data.
Flash graph
is both informative and attractive for your website visitors.
The first impression
of a website is the last impression. So, it’s better to catch visitors’
eyes with a bright animated chart in flash than to frighten them
off with an epic text data.
Flash charts
(swf charts) are great for representing dynamic data because
it allows changing data without replacing the whole file and changing
the entire web page.
Web charts
are perfect for representing financial reports, scientific and statistical
data, polls and surveys results, network monitoring, etc.
And the main fact to argue
for using flash charts is that they can be created and web published
not only by professional web and flash developers, but also by common
users who hasn’t programming skills and experience. To create flash
chart without coding and scripting, you need a special chart
making software. Such a utility allows making graphs without any
programming skills and publishing them to website with ease. Animated Chart software lets you create charts in
3 easy steps:
Select a flash
chart type. Animated Chart has 10 chart types available - Area chart,
Bar chart, Bubble chart, Column chart, Doughnut chart, Line chart, Pie
chart, (XY) Scatter chart, Radar (Spiderweb) or Stock chart. Almost
each of these chart types has subtypes, for example, one of the most
popular types – Column chart – can have a view of clustered columns,
stacked columns and 100% stacked columns. So, the variety of types to
choose from is numerous.
Choose
data source – data can be either imported from data file or entered
manually. After launching Animated Chart, you’ll see the Wizard window
which will simplify selecting chart type, entering and editing chart
data. Open View Chart Data tab to see chart’s datasheet and
edit chart values, categories and series names, etc. All the data can
also be edited in the main window of the program even after building
a chart.
Customize
the chart. When you finish editing chart data in the Wizard window,
click OK button to close this window and to build the chart. Now you’ll
see the main window of the program and your chart. You can start customizing
it. Click any chart element and adjust its every parameter – from
fonts and colors to transition effects. Choose one of the Flash 8 effects
to make transitions interesting and eye-catching – Appear, Grow, Fall,
NeonAppear, Slide, Gather, Swing, Rotate.
Now your chart is ready for
publishing. Chart can be saved as an image, HTML or projector file,
printed or web published. Animated Chart creates web ready flash
charts that means you can both save chart as an SWF
chart (Flash chart) and copy a piece of HTML-code to Clipboard
for easy pasting it into a web page code.
