Mint Editor is a user-friendly desktop CMS, which was developed by Flashmint in order to help our customers manage their flash XML templates without any special knowledge.

Mint Editor is not a standalone product as many may consider it to be and is not being sold separately. It is a convenient admin interface sold in a package with a selection of XML templates, which allows you to manage flash content without actually looking into the XML code.
While opened in Mint Editor, the template is represented as a structured combination of various flash components, with a separate set of configuration settings for each of them. This allows a great flexibility in template customization.
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You for sure know that FlashMint is your mastermind in Flash industry, most of what we do is one way or another Flash. We work hard to be your best Flash friend, our experienced team of professionals creates exceptional Flash website templates, Flash components and other web products, we partner reliable companies to give you every service you may need.

To become even more convenient solution for you and take a better care of you we start a new service - we offer you an opportunity to learn Flash with the best Flash tutorials. Please welcome the new FlashMint project - FlashMint Tuts, the blog dedicated to Flash tutorials only. Each macromedia Flash tutorial you’ll find at FlashMint Tuts is unique (this means you won’t find it anywhere else), valuable (this means you’ll actually learn something useful from it) and not just basic but cover the issues interesting for Flash professionals.

Besides, if you are a Flash expert and would like to contribute you can earn some money, $150 to be precise. The conditions are very simple: your tutorial has to be unique and comprehensive, it has to be a professional step-by-step guide to create complex and engrossing result. Please note that basic tips for beginners are not of interest for FlashMint Tuts. The subjects of your tutorials should cover Flash animation and interactivity, Flash web design and user interfaces and Flash applications. Each freelance contributor will be paid $150 per approved tutorial via PayPal. The author of each tutorial will be featured on the top of the sent Adobe Flash tutorial.
Well, share your valuable knowledge with others and let’s have a mutually beneficial cooperation!

FlashMint feels proud to gladden you with another portion of pleasant news and present something you were undoubtedly dreaming of - thrilling Dynamic Flash Intro for enhancing any website you are going to launch.

Innovative Dynamic Flash Intro is an XML based application built on frames - pairs of image and slogan which will appear directly within your online presence. The number of frames you want to implement is absolutely up to you which means that you can choose as many pairs as you want. You can also easily set up the delay time - the duration of each frame which may vary from few seconds up to half an hour - just as long as you wish it to be. The operating mechanism is so simple that even a very computer-savvy guy can cope with it without any obstacles. Besides, you don’t need to obtain any extra knowledge or purchase special flash software to make the most out of the Dynamic Flash Intro; everything can be easily achieved even with the help of a simple Notepad editor.

Dynamic Flash Intro implies a standalone version created on the XML basis and looks like a live presentation which appears before your website is loaded inviting the visitors to enter your web pages. You also have the possibility to use it as a background in the Dynamic Site Builder which you have already heard about and can also get from FlashMint. In this case you can use any Dynamic Flash Intro as a bottom layer so when the user stops the intro the image will remain.

What is not less pleasant is that the pricing of the exciting Dynamic Flash Intro developed by Artin2ition.com does not exceed $15 which means that you get exclusive flash application for your website at extremely low cost. Moreover, there is a special offer - if you purchase a package of 5 Dynamic Flash Intros you will have to spend only $35 on it which appears to be a fantastic money saving solution.

In prospect FlashMint is looking forward to new innovations, the first one is creating of interactive backgrounds, e.g. events calendar or a clock which look like Vista widgets. This will require a simple swf file which is than attached to the website. Another innovative solution awaited in future implies Twitter content upload similar to Recent Tweet option which are expected to possess stunning design and impress you significantly.

FlashMint is waiting for you to express your wishes and desires so feel free to share fresh ideas - your every opinion is appreciated!

Being the innovator and the flagship in the Web Design Industry FlashMint continues bringing new technologies and revolutionary products to give you the most outstanding and convenient web solutions. Thus, today we are announcing the launch of the most ingenious web product that will make the development and maintenance of a website as easy and fun as the kids’ game is. Please welcome - Website Constructor.

I bet everyone played with the Lego constructor at childhood. Do you remember how fun it was? Well, building a website is now as much fun! From now on you do not need ANY programming skills and technical knowledge to develop a perfect website. Seriously. You do not have to pay loads of money to edit and maintain your website, you do not need to hire tech-savvy designers and developers any more, now you can do everything yourself.

Super scalable multipurpose XML flash template

Do you remember how a house is built? The first thing needed to build a house is a basis. Website constructor plays this role here. What is the next thing needed to build a house? You are right - bricks. The components play the role of bricks in building a website. Thus everything you need to do to get yourself a perfect online house is a site constructor for the basis and flash components to build the walls-site pages upon it. FlashMint offers 8 components now. These first 3 components are the most essential things no website can be built without:

1. Text field
This is a simple HTML page you can put anything on. You can have an unlimited amount of pages with any info you may need to give to your visitors - pictures, your bio, about us page etc.

2. News feed
All the components of this type are dynamical to create a vivid presentation of your latest news. You can choose colors, add pictures and resize your news feed to suit your website perfectly.

3. Contact form
To let your visitors reach you and give their feedback you’ll need a contact form. We offer you the most brilliant components for this task. Till today you needed to have php skills to add a contact form to the site or pay load of money to someone who can do the task for you. Now you can do everything yourself. Easily change colors, add and edit texts and contact information within your contact form.

Well, these were 3 most essential components you’ll need to have a functional website. If you plan to develop a creative online presence you may need these components:

1. Picture gallery
If you plan to build a personal page, or a portfolio, or even an online showcase of the products you sell this is the most necessary component you need. The picture galleries created at FlashMint let you easily resize and edit your images, add and remove pictures and categories, change the color of the gallery and thus give you the full control over your pictures and their presentation at your website.

2. Music gallery
As the picture gallery for photographers this component is important for the musicians. Building a personal page for your band you’ll need to let everyone easily listen to your music online. The music galleries from FlashMint let you add as many mp3 tracks and albums as you wish to. If you want to create a great personal page and share you favorite music with your visitors you’ll love this component as well.

3. Video gallery
You can add an unlimited number of your videos, clips and movies to your website with this component.  You can divide your videos to the categories, thus creating a comprehensive archive.The component works with .flv video format which is one of the most popular video formats.

4. Slide show
If you want your visitors to notice your selected pictures or your best products show them with the vivid slide show.

5. Staff page
This component allows you to create a gallery showing you and your company or family photos and giving your brief bios to let your clients and visitors to know who you are. I believe it is the most creative way to let the world know you

All these components are extremely easy to add and edit. You won’t have any problems with doing it yourself, we’ve put a lot of time and effort to make it intuitive ans simple for you. Besides the described above components FlashMint will soon add the Event Calendar, Shopping Cart and Flex Admin Panel components to give you the fullest control over your website. And what is the most pleasant about it all - the full package will cost you no more than $60.

Build your web house in no time and have fun!
P.S. Do let us know what features would you like to have on your website and we’ll develop components for you. We want to give you an opportunity to build the most perfect functional website you ever dreamed about.

When we say Flash templates we mean FlashMint, when we say FlashMint we mean Flash products (Flash design, flash websites, Flash CMS, Flash components). Everyone knows how extremely interactive and visually impressive Flash designs are. Well developed Flash websites require little bandwidth and are usually real masterpieces that are able to carry the viewer to the world of designer’s fantasy and unbelievable reality. Though being in the business for a while we constantly come across strange misbeliefs considering Flash in web design, thus today I’m going to bust those myths to give you more confidence in Flash.

#1 Flash is not SEO-friendly

This is a common misbelief that search engines like Google can not read the Flash texts. In fact Google does read inside Flash for a long time already. Here’s an article on the theme written back in 2004!

And here Adobe itself explains how SEO and Flash work together.

#2 Flash is slowly loading

Yes, Flash was slow…. ages ago. Nowadays Flash supports such data transfer/storage technologies like SWX, Native XML, SOAP, etc and the general access to broadband Flash is loading very fast. Of course if the code has been written by someone incompetent Flash may be really slow.

#3 Only few people have Flash player installed
Yes, Flash website can work only if the user has Flash player installed. But I can’t imagine where this odd myth that only few people have it installed has come from. In fact Flash is immensely popular. Of course there are groups of people that do not have Flash player and even do not know what it is, but this groups won’t be even 1% of Internet users, and do you really think these people might be your targeted audience?

#4 The content is not separated from presentation

Of course someone who is really incompetent and new to Flash development may write a mess, but experienced developers use XML for content, for presentation they use Flash movie clips and for behavior external ActionScript files. And believe me we at FlashMint do not have inexperienced and incompetent developers.

Hope the myths are busted for you, there’s no reason to not use Flash if you want your website to be unique and possess the awesome features that only Flash can give.