Here is a great free Flash 3D image slider! Cu3er offers plenty of customization options that are very easy to implement – all you have to do is modify an XML file.

It’s a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotator. Consider using it when you want to grab the user’s attention. Here is a quick demo: (more…)

I received an interesting email last night about a web based CMS for XML driven Flash websites, I thought I’d share it with our dear readers!

James McNess recently released a lite Flash CMS called Rainbow Live, and was hoping it’s relevant to readers of our blog. James says he would love the chance to get the word out as he thinks Rainbow is a really great way to quickly and easily add CMS functionality to Flash files that use external XML, it fills the niche between heavy database driven CMS and XML editor. So if you are interested, read more about Rainbow.

We have developed countlessed Content Management Systems (CMS) for Flash driven websites, using XML technologies. And the funny part of the story is that a few hours before I received the email, I was talking with Richard about a somewhat similar idea – the possibility of creating a full blown CMS on the fly, simply based on XML files.

Hello Web Designers!

Look at what I found: http://swfupload.org/
It’s a free Flash based uploader that allow – like Gmail (and other application such as the TinyMCE Image Manager) – to upload multiple files at once, and show the upload progression of each file!

Here’s a live demo, try to upload some files!

Besides, we can also personalize the “Upload Files” button, which allows us to integrate this useful tool to many CMS systems and other web applications we build!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend. I just wanted to point out a very useful tool for Flash web designers and developers. It’s called SWFAddress and it is an effective tool in providing support for deep linking your Flash websites and applications.

What SWFAddress does is it lets you create unique virtual URLs for all the different sections of your Flash website. This helps with general usability, as it makes the forward and back buttons on your browser functionable as well as makes your flash websites more search-engine friendly. You can download and read about it here.

In short, SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It’s a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. (more…)