Flash

We often deal with clients that are planning to “revamp” their sites with Flash, with SEO having already generated tremendous gains in their sales. The thing that we most dread to hear is that they’ve hired an experienced “Flash designer” that will be taking their Web sites to the “next level.” Unfortunately, that “next level” [...]

Should you really be flashing your visitors? Sure we all love flash movies and how neat it make everything look. Just like with anything though, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Call me old fashioned, but I do not want a Web site looking like a Las Vegas casino. [...]

I see Flash as having a number of possibilities. So the thought of it moving beyond the browser is just not all that shocking to me. Seriously, it would not even shock me a bit. Mobile apps perhaps?

Perhaps any preconceived issues with Flash 8 do not stem from Flash itself, rather the lack of a decent manual? If this is in fact the case, then I’d suggest you keep reading…

Is it really so bad to keep the content of a Flash movie under wraps? Could this be something that may need to change in the future? Will we see the day in which one can easily ’source’ a Flash file to take a peek at its contents? I say no, but others feel that [...]

Why pay someone else to teach you when you have all the tools you need right in front of you? FreeFlashTutorials.com provides free Flash lessons to make you look like a professional.
It allows you to download its videos (which are offered in Quicktime.) The videos presented on the site are for beginners right through intermediate [...]

Flash was never one of my favourites, but I always thought it would be good to learn. Well, now I don’t have to learn! FreeFlashIntros.com has made a Free Flash-SiteBuilder available to anyone who would like a Web site done in Flash - it can actually make you look like a Flash professional!
It enables you [...]

The free utility Powerbullet Presenter allows experienced and unexperienced web designers alike to create animated multimedia presentations.
Once you are done creating your presentation, you may output it as HTML together with a Flash file (SWF), or compile the entire presentation into a self-running executable file (Windows only).

As many of you know, I had a very rough few months to close out 2004. However, I have also had a very rough start to 2005. I am hoping all of my bad times are behind me and I can make a fresh start and begin to add new content here on a more [...]

Here’s your chance to win big for doing what you love to do—develop rich interactive content for the coolest new gadgets. Think you can do it? Put your genius to the test and enter the Macromedia Flash Lite Content Contest for a chance to win an eye-popping 42-inch Sony plasma TV or one of seven [...]

Of course, I encourage you to ensure you get enough rest, but this is about REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Flash. Flash is a great program… when done right - and few do it right. Macromedia’s Kevin Lynch demonstrates how to use rich Internet applications to display their current state in the URL when the user [...]

Don’t look now, but it looks like the future of embedded entertainment platforms just received a huge shot in the arm according to a recent press release. The Oregan TV Browser allows those older machines to once again become useful again since its architecture allows for it function well on machines with a little age [...]

Job alert people! If you are a Chattanooga, TN resident, are familiar with Macromedia Flash, then this might be the job for you. The actual job description is “Interactive Systems Developer”, but it is a full time gig for the Web Dev that has a little Flash floating around in their veins.

Those of you familiar with Flash probably realize that are a lot of features that remain largely untouched by many users. Take NumericStepper for instance. A feature that remains almost hidden to most users, it has the ability to give you exacting control right where you need it when working on complex forms.

In what some believe to be as tremendous as the creation of the Web browser itself, sIFR has been released. Designed to take font/text to the next level, on the surface it looks a lot like a typical image of some text created in a photo program. Upon closer observation, you will see that it [...]

Flash on mobile devices? I just can not see it myself. Yet Macromedia continues their push with mobile device companies in hopes that some how they will make an impression with the right people.

Sound effects in a Web page can be a lot of fun. However, in order to do this the right way, Flash must be implemented. Steve Grosvenor of SitePoint takes you on a run down on how this is accomplished though the use of Flash.

Tom Murphy does not think that Flash has anyplace on PR websites. His feelings are made quite clear as he rants and raves about a subject that I think has been beaten to death. Why do people continue to rip on Flash? If a Flash UI is done right, there is really nothing wrong with [...]

Yes, Flash is really cool. The animations, interfaces, and even the plain ‘ol buttons that you can create with Flash are enough to blow one’s mind. Still, creating a Web site that is completely encompassed in Flash is not recommended. It may look really neat, but it can provide you with more problems than you [...]

Looking for an import extension that will import text into HTML, Text, or XML? Then “importText Extension for Flash MX 2004 IDE” is just what you need. While the person that was creating this at 2am makes it clear that it is still very much in beta, you cannot really argue too much since it [...]