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.
FlashMint, leader in Flash industry, is deservedly given that name. Flash Designs is what we do best. But our main priority is you, we are here to bring you the most convenient solutions, thus if you are interested in Flash and you share our passion to everything Flash, than this post will gladden you, because here we’ve gathered the most interesting links on Awards-winning Flash designs that inspire, as well as Flash tutorials to help you embody your inspiration, plus Flash related websites every Flash developer should know. Thus, enjoy!
Best Flash animation site – The best Flash design is picked here every week. You can submit your own work and see if people appraise it. The site itself is full of inspirational ideas.
Best Web Gallery – This awesome gallery showcases the most inspirational CSS and Flash designs. A truly captivating resource.
The Favorite website awards – Be careful when browsing this website, you can stuck there for ages. It is the most infusive resource featuring the most creative Flash designs out there.
Flash in the Pan – This design awards website showcases the best Flash designs and Flash websites out there. You can submit your own Flash works and win prizes as well.
CWA - Here are the world’s Top Flash websites awarded. Great resource for inspiration.
Daymare town - This is an awesome example of how Flash can be used. Truly amazing Flash game you may find inspiring.
I bet you’ve found some inspiration at the websites above and now you want to make something like that yourself. Well, here are some useful Flash tutorials for you:
Flash CS4 Tutorial - Learn the basics if you are new to Flash. This tutorial will introduce you to the the Flash CS4 workspace and tools and basic techniques of creating Flash animation.
Creating Flash banner - This nice tutorial will teach you how to create your own beautiful Flash banner.
Very Advanced Business Flash Menu – This is a great tutorial that will teach you not only how to design a nice menu for your website but also such useful things like how to animate it and apply action script code on it and many more.
The tech labs – Awesome website featuring the great number of interesting and useful tutorials.
Beginning and advanced flash tutorials – Here you will find a very good list of tutorials both for beginners and experienced Flash developers.
And finally – couple of links every Flash developer might find interesting:
Flash magazine- A great resource of information on Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Swift3D, SVG and everything related to them.
The Flash blog – Great weblog on everything Flash featuring news and tons of useful information.
If you have other links to add to the list, please post them in your comments.
FlashMint.com the leading Flash Templates provider, does not only update the current products collection on the daily basis but also develops the new product lines, regularly enriching its collection with new ingenious products. Remember the newly launched Flash Animated WordPress Themes?
So today we are proud to announce the launch of the new product type - Flash components.
Flash components are ready-made Flash menus, buttons, image viewers and galleries, navigation systems, video and music players, animations, effects, icons and illustrations, preloaders and scrollbars, news readers and banner rotators, forms and maps, calculators and drawing utilities, time & date add-ins and charts you can easily install to your website to add more incredible features and functionality.
These Flash files, applications and extensions require little or no Flash ActionScript knowledge. And you are more than welcome to order a professional modification and installation form our Customization department.
I know that webmasters and web developers will especially appreciate these new products of ours as Flash components help to fasten webmasters’ work and are a powerful tool for enhancing Flash web designs.
FlashMint is open for your suggestions! If you need some particular Flash components, we’d love to build them for you.
You won’t argue that Flash is an awesome technology. Used appropriately it can create the most incredible and breath-taking pieces of creative web design. Surfing the web I constantly come across websites designed with Flash, some of them are good, some are not, and some are really awesome. These awesome samples of Flash in web design I’m going to show you today.
Well, the top5 of Flash websites:
#5 CREAKTIF !
The use of Flash makes this design studio website a very nice example of interactive web design. I won’t name this site the most amazing Flash based one, but it definitely deserves to be named at this chart.
#4 Aksident
Another good example of interactivity in web design. I find the navigation of this website to be incredible, the design is plain and the use of photography just amazes. Very good piece of Flash web design.
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We discussed here the non-stop technological innovations and constantly upgrading technologies not once, and not just once FlashMint has proven to be the first in Flash development. And today we will prove it yet again.
FlashMint is proud to announce the launch of a brand new revolutionary product – Flash CMS v3 Templates. These new Flash website templates are developed with due consideration of your comfort and your web presence ever-changing needs.
Check Photo studio CMS v3 flash template
So lets find out what is so special about these templates and how they differ from CMS v1 and CMS v2.
The admin panel in CMS v3 is built with Flex, not php as in previous versions v1 and v2.
Here’s how it looks now:
Check the admin panel in action. (Use password 123).
So what are the new incredible features?
First of all CMS v3 allows you to have as many text pages as you wish. Opposed to 5 pages available in CMS v2 this change is huge.
Check Absolute photo studio CMS v3 flash template
Flash CMS v3 templates are SEO friendly. Now you can add page title and keywords to your index page:
Another huge change is the new functional buttons giving you an opportunity to sell your products right from your website. These buttons will make your work more comfortable.
Your galleries are not limited in any way. You can easily add and edit them. Besides, you are now able to rotate, crop, resize and anyhow edit your images right on your website and easily search the images and galleries.
You can now modify and configure your menu, set a default page and change it when you wish to with the new menu editor.
And as every other FlashMint templates these Flash CMS v3 website templates have the most quality and professional designs.
Have a look at Deep space portfolio CMS v3 template
To have your incredible Flash CMS v3 website all up and running you need a web host that features php hosting and is dom_xml enabled.
If you need a professionally designed, easily operational and editable web template for your personal page, online portfolio or even an eCommerce these Flash CMS v3 templates are the perfect solution. They are created to be just that.
