Up-to-date technology runs further incessantly amazing us by its innovations nearly day by day. Sometimes it seems you can’t keep up with an endless stream of technological upgrades that knock you out by new inexhaustible possibilities. But if we halt for a while and delve taking into account all the features and facilities offered by technological progress we will see how easy it is enjoying them.
The same thing happens with Flash nowadays. Recently novel and unexplored it hardly confuses contemporary web masters. Even those who are making first steps in developing boldly begin their creation from Flash overstepping simpler facilities. And they do it deliberately knowing it will kill at least two birds with one stone – nice modern design and ease at work make up a rather nice couple especially for a newbie.
Those who prefer innovative approaches to old tried methods and are not afraid to experiment with new software receive a great chance to enjoy new perspectives of their occupation. Though HTML remains resistant and omnipresent working with Flash you are released from thinking about your website’s cross browser compatibility, adding special markups or worry about the presentation, and of course may expect total success of your little online piece of art. You are able to make a flash header, animated menu and use flash contact forms which will be appreciated by the customers undoubtedly. There is also no severe obstacles one can meet in customizing Flash content as all necessary programs supplemented with step-by-step tutorials exist in quite available mode. So why not make it easier and more live with Flash?
Flash technology goes deeper with the course of time and it probably won’t be striking when Flash plugin will burst even into iPhones – actually the invasion is not far off. So you better prepare your mind to be blown.
First I would like to say that we make our customers life easier 
What I mean is that we always do our best to ease the editing process of flash templates. We have good collection of flipbook templates but all of them are simple flash templates, you need to know the flash to modify the content, add the pages etc. Now you have the chance to get dynamic flipbook templates. Here is the brief overview.
Why choosing flip books?
Dynamic flip book templates give the customer unique opportunity to build eye catching and user friendly website within a couple of hours. You can add as many pages as required without deep knowledge of flash technology and action script.
This product is truly customer oriented. We tried to make things as simple as possible. All script settings are stored in external text files, so you can reconfigure the template within a couple of minutes.
The dynamic nature of Flip Book templates makes the website load faster. Now you do not have to wait for 10 minutes till the website loads. In fact it happens in seconds and the majority of the visitors do not even notice the loader at all.
Getting started.
To insert your own content you will need 2 variants of each page:
1. Big JPG image 850х1088(actual pages in 100% size)
2. Small JPG image 85х109(page thumbnails)
Every big image must be converted in SWF format(Flash 8), this is required for graphics dithering and http links embedding.
After you have prepared all pages you should edit the XML file and define path top the appropriate images. It is very important to keep existing naming system.
To edit the “content menu” please open mag.fla file using adobe flash 8, find “subContent symbol” in flash library, open the 1st frame of layer3 and go to line 18 in action script panel. This will allow you to create your own menu.
Navigation Items.
ZOOM Button- set page scale to 100%.
FULLSCREEN Button – switches fullscreen mod on.
PAGES Button – displays page preview thumbnails.
CONTENTS Button – Shows flip book content links.
SAVE Button – download PDF/DOC version of the flip book.
PRINT Button – prints the current page.
FAVORITES Button – adds website to favorites.
SEND Button – sends the website URL by email.
LINKS Button – the list of link partners.
NOTES Button – adds a note to the page.
SOUNDS Button – switches ON/OF the sound track.
HELP Button – brief navigation description
Flashmint.com are proud to present the new product – Business Flash CMS templates. They are exceptional among what is offered to small and medium size companies in terms of their usability and pricing. This combination of features makes them a perfect tool for creating a business website.
The key feature of Business CMS templates is their User Control Panel. Due to it you do need no additional software to modify a flash template. Within one hour a user without programming background can do the following:
- change the company name, slogan, logo, background, texts, copyright;
- change the colors of the menu, copyright, company name and slogan;
- upload the sound track in MP3 format.
This is how the user control panel looks:
You can add, delete and edit web pages by means of the page wizard. View the screenshots of steps 1-3:
The interface for editing pages looks like this:
Here is what a user can easily do with the created pages:
- edit a menu title;
- edit all the texts due to the built-in text editor;
- add, edit, delete blocks and change their order;
- edit contact form fields;
- update the news feed
And the last, but not the least, feature of Business CMS templates is their competitive prices. The highest price is currently only $80. So, all this makes Business CMS templates the most cost-saving and the quickest tool for creating a small or a medium-sized business website.
More information on Business CMS templates is available here
And here is how the newly launched Business CMS templates look like:
Consulting Flash CMS Template 2220
Business Group Flash CMS Template 2219
Insurance Business Flash CMS Template 2218
Trade Company CMS Flash Template 2217
Hot news: Google has Improved Ability to Index Flash
A new updated version of Adobe Flash Player has been released by Adobe Systems Incorporated. This edition is now at the disposal of two main search engines on the web- Google and Yahoo! Google is already using it while Yahoo! specialists are still working on its implementation.
The new function available in this new version of Player consists in indexing dynamic content of swf-objects. This will be achieved by the bot acting like a virtual visitor clicking on buttons and links etc which will download dynamic content of Flash (and Flex) sites invisible to bots before.
So, rather good news, I should say. Google has been able to index Flash to some extend before and now this ability has been substantially enhanced. Flash-skeptics can leave their worries aside and let web masters create RIA with their stunning looks.
From now on you can enjoy the benefits of Flashmint’s Flash templates without worrying how SE-friendly they are. They are Google-friendly and will soon be Yahoo!-friendly. So, this is a new milestone in further making Flash a common sight on the web.
Mesmerizing interactivity offered by Flash web-sites runs the risk of being left completely inconspicuous since Flash web-pages do not rank well with search engines. This problem has been attracting attention of web-developers for quite a long time already and it seems that no perfect solution has been offered so far.
Does Google index your .swf files?
The frequent question “Does Google index your .swf files?” seems to have been answered by the company. “Google reads Flash, so optimize it” is the title of the post on the News.com. It describes how Google implements Adobe Systems’ Search Engine SDK technology. However, the results are not absolute and further improvements are awaited, but the web developers can start optimizing the content of the Flash sites. Another good tool to supplement SDK is SE-Flash.com. It checks how appealing your text for a search engine is after you have applied SDK.
