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FFDmag: an Online Magazine Worth Reading
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 in ArticlesPerhaps you’ve already heard of FFDmag. If not we’ll explain why you should give it a try.
FFDmag is a Flash & Flex developer’s magazine. It shares the tips and tricks every Flash and Flex developer should know. It’s also important to mention that this online magazine is available free of charge and each issue covers a number of hop topics, including Flash and Mobile devices, Flash games, Flash CS4, etc.
According to the FFDmag team their project is a “Bi-monthly and FREE magazine – the leading source of Flash/Flex practical knowledge. Each issue contains articles, tutorials, listings, codes, promotional offers that may give you many benefits!”.
Note: the March issue is already available for download. Why don’t you check it out?
Vote for the Best Web Design Trends!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 in ArticlesWhen it comes to web design, every opinion is important and deserves to be heard. With this in mind we suggest you to share your thoughts on this year’s most successful web design trends.
How to vote for the Best Web Design Trends of 2010
1. Visit Blog.TemplateMonster.com. Once you enter the website you’ll be offered a lot of web design trends to choose from. To name just a few of them: white backgrounds, huge footers, huge headers, multi column layouts, one page layouts, slideshows, huge images, etc.
2. Browse images showcasing the most popular web design trends. To help you make the right decision the post on the best web design trends of 2010 comes with self explaining samples. Not only the images illustrate working websites but also website templates, Flash Templates, Flash CM Templates and other designs you could use to start your own projects.
3. Decide what web design trends are the best this year and share your thoughts in comments.
You see, it’s rather simple to cast your vote for the best Web Design Trends of the year!
Websites Built with Flash Content Management Systems
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 in ArticlesWe aren’t sure if it’s good or bad but the holiday season has ended and it’s time to enjoy a new year and a new article.
Over the last year we’ve been telling you about various Flash CMS solutions. We hope our articles have been helpful to you but today we’d like to share something completely different. This article is not a usual article but a showcase of websites built with different Flash Content Management Systems. We believe it will be of interest to anyone who is looking for a perfect Flash CMS. Not only will you see Flash CMSs in action but will be able to understand which Flash CMS fits your needs.
Please check out websites powered by different Flash CMS solutions and comment this post in case your website is also built with a certain Flash CMS. Also, we’d like to thank Flash CMS providers which have helped us to complete this amazing list.
Flash Websites built with FlashMoto Flash CMS
1. Craigbeck.com
Merry Christmas to Everyone Who Visits Flash CMS Blog
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 in Articles
Dear readers, with this article we’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas!
May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and magic. Wish your Christmas be filled with happiness and joy.
Please remember Christmas is neither a time nor a season, but a state of mind to cherish peace & goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas!
Let’s hope this Christmas will also bring us more Flash content management solutions to speak about 
We hope you like the illustration we’ve added to this article. It is downloaded for free from Templates.com. This site offers a lot of free illustrations, free website templates, free twitter backgrounds to choose from. However, all the freebies are available to those who have an account with Templates.com. The registration is free and simple. All it takes is a few minutes of your time, and you’ll be on your way to downloading useful web design stuff. Another website to find Free Twitter Backgrounds is Blog.TemplateMonster.com
May you enjoy Christmas and all that it has to offer!
Do You Know Sites Built With Flash CMSs?
Friday, October 2, 2009 in ArticlesFrankly speaking the main aim of today’s post was to review the sites that have been built with different Flash CMSs. So, we’ve started looking for such sites. Unfortunately our search wasn’t successful. Neither could we find the sites, nor showcase galleries to submit them.
So, we need your help in finding sites built with Flash Content Management Systems. Please comment if you’ve created such a site or in case you know any that looks really cool.
We’ll gladly review sites built with Flash CMSs and promote them to our readers. Also, we don’t mind to interview the site owners or web developers who have created these sites.
I bet our readers would like to know what it feels to have a site powered by a Flash CMS or even create one.
All comments are welcome!
Get Ready for Flash CMS Templates
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 in ArticlesAs Flash CMS Templates will be released soon, it’s time to think what it means for you and the whole Flash community. First of all it means Flash website development will be made easier.
In short a Flash CMS Template is a powerful combination of an eye-catching design and a Flash CMS.
If you read our blog, you already know that a Flash CMS is a Content Management System specifically designed to create and manage Adobe Flash Content including texts, images, sounds, movies, animations and actions. The good thing is no programming skills are required to use a Flash CMS.
So Flash CMS Templates are web designs that come with the most striking features of FlashMoto Flash CMS. To name just a few of them: advanced editing options, video and image gallery component, video player component, etc.
What’s special about Flash sites built with Flash CMS Templates, you may ask. The answer is short but strong: these sites are easy to build and update. Also, each Flash site is SEO-friendly.
Flash CMS Templates will be released by a top web templates provider. Therefore, these designs should look professional and trendy.
If you would like to be notified as soon as Flash CMS Templates are available, please visit a Flash CMS Templates page and subscribe to the notification service.
Also, check back for more information on Flash CMS Templates.
FlashMoto Flash CMS needs your vote for the best Rich Internet Application
Friday, September 4, 2009 in ArticlesDo you remember FlashMoto Flash CMS that we’ve introduced a while back?
It needs your help now. If you’ve already tested this Flash content management system and like the way it works you can help it become the best Rich Internet Application the year, and therefore be showcased at a special session at Adove MAX 2009.
How can you do this? Simply vote for it on InsideRIA.com. The case is InsideRIA.com, a complete resource for information on Rich Internet Applications has started an award called Best of RIA 2009. All applications that take part in the competition have been created/powered with Adobe tools and were either created, released, or updated this year.
Today FlashMoto is one of the first 3 semi-finalists. So why don’t you help it win if you find FlashMoto useful for you and other Flash developers?
Be sure to download the beta version of FlashMoto Flash CMS and try it out in case you haven’t done it before.
You have 2 more days to vote for this Flash CMS as the voting ends on September 6th, 2009.
So, what are you waiting for? This is your only opportunity cast your vote for the Best of RIA 2009.
A useful Flash Blog to keep an eye on
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 in ArticlesWe always try to provide Flash community with valuable information and today we’d like to speak of Flash99Good.com. It’s a blog started by Kevin Airgid – a web designer, blogger and speaker. Kevin runs a small interactive studio that develops creative projects for many famous companies and from what we can read at Flash99Good.com he is also a Flash fan.
To be short Flash99Good.com was launched to promote a book called Flash 99% Good: A guide to Flash Usability. Later it turned into a blog about Flash and general interactive development topics.
Frankly speaking Flash99Good.com was one of the first sites to review Flash content management systems. In his post entitled List of Flash CMS Systems (or lack there of) Kevin has introduced the Flash CMS’s that were available some years ago.
As Flash developers are constantly creating new tools and applications many new Flash content management systems have been released since then.
We at TopFlashCms.com appreciate that Flash99Good.com was the first to speak on this topic and we’ll go on sharing information on useful Flash CMS’s that can help you with your Flash projects.
Video effects by VideoSmash.com
Friday, July 31, 2009 in ArticlesA new site providing video effects has been recently launched. It’s VideoSmash.com.
The site offers a huge choice of high resolution video effects. All video effects are divided into the following categories Abstract Video Effects, Fireworks Video Effects, Nature Video Effects, Web Design Video Effects.
As you may know, video effects are created to be used in Flash Animations, Flash websites, Motion Graphics, TV and video ads, HD Flash Intros, etc.
Currently Video Smash library includes 50 video effects in 3 different colors. Thus, the total number of video effects is 150.
To download video effects you should sign up for a membership that costs $150. However you can purchase it at half price! To get a 50% discount you should buy any Flash product from the leading template provider TemplateMonster.com. That can be a Flash template, Flash Intro template, Dynamic Flash photo gallery or a SWiSH template.
Impressive video effects offered by VideoSmash.com may be useful for Flash developers and everyone who creates video files and applications. Just don’t forget to take advantage of the 50% discount.
The Flash Tutorials at the Flash Perfection
Friday, June 26, 2009 in Articles
Some people say Flash is as easy and others say it’s rather complicated. So, what’s the truth? I would say Flash is easy but you need to learn how to use it first. This is where a good Flash tutorials site steps in.
Flash developers and web designers who love the Flash technology will be pleased to know about the Flash Perfection.
It’s a wonderful site that offers many Flash tutorials for novices and advanced Flash users. All Flash Tutorials are divided into the following categories
- 3D Flash Tutorials
- Flash Actionscripting Tutorials
- Flash Animation Tutorials
- Flash Audio Tutorials
- Flash Dynamic Content Tutorials
- Flash Games Tutorials
- Flash Basics Tutorials
- Flash Interactivity Tutorials
- Flash Optimization Tutorials
- Flash Special Effects Tutorials
- Flash Text Effects Tutorials
- Flash Tips & Techniques
And that’s not the whole list of categories
Basically the Flash Perfection offers step by step guides on how to setup and manage the Flash sites. Feel free to visit this tutorials site to find the whole range of the Flash tutorials.
