In the previous post we gave out the free buttons from FlashMint and promised to give more charge-free stuff soon. Well, we decided not to put off this initiative, thus here they are - horizontal website menus from FlashMint, absolutely free of charge!

Designed in the number of simple colors these free navigation menus will suit any personal page as well as a business website. You are free to use presented here horizontal menus for your personal website as well as for the projects you create for your clients. Like the free buttons delivered in the previous post and every other web product from FlashMint these website navigation menus are of the highest quality. By using these free menus you can ensure that they’ll back up your design solutions in the best way helping you to dedicate even more time and effort to your work.

Every menu available here is a .psd file, thus can be easily modified to suit your website layout. So do not hesitate a minute, go check them all and download free website menu you liked right away.

You may remember that few posts ago when we gave you free photo gallery from FlashMint we promised to give more things for free, well today is the day - we are giving out free web buttons.
Small things are small things, but they still take time, effort and inspiration. Every web designer knows how important website buttons are, but I bet most of you do not like creating them at all. To give you an opportunity to put more time and creativity into making big things like custom headers and hot backgrounds, we’ve decided to give you these small but essential things for free.

As every other web product designed at FlashMint these free buttons are of highest quality and exceptional style. Delivered in 4 vivid colors these cool buttons will be a perfect match for any creative web page.
Every free button we offer you today is a .psd file, this means you can easily make any alterations and modify them to suit your website design perfectly.

So do not waste the time any more, go and grab your free buttons from FlashMint. Download the Free Web Buttons and stay tuned for more free stuff from FlashMint.

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.

Not long ago we were hosting a thrilling MacBook Air Giveaway with all FlashMint.com customers. The event went extremely well and a big thanks goes out to everyone who participated!
We hope that all of you are now enjoying the  websites built on the basis of our web templates.

Just like Mitchell LeBlanc who has bought PhotoStudio Papervision 3D XML Flash Template for his girlfriend building a beautiful Photo portfolio website.

Purchasing the template Mitch has won the world’s thinnest notebook which he is extremely happy about. Have a look at his shining face

Well done Mitchell! Hope you will take full advantage of the Air!
Our next winner can be You as more exciting giveaways will come shortly! So stay tuned and who knows maybe you will ride the luck with FlashMint.com next adventure!

You have for sure seen FlashMint Professional Joomla templates that comprise awesome designs with the highest quality.
Joomla! is an extremely convenient CMS platform that allows you creating beautiful websites that are very easy and comfortable in maintenance. As well as another Content Management System - WordPress, Joomla! is an open source, this means that it is being constantly developed and innovated, there is a great number of add-ons and extensions to improve your Joomla website. Well, below is the list of the useful Joomla extensions for almost every possible purpose from administration to social networking and image galleries.

Administration and security

JoomlaCloner
What is a first thing you should think about when launching a website? Well, backup of course. This is a very useful and handy component that allows you to “clone” your Joomla installation and move it on any location over the Internet.

Joomlapack
Another backup & restore tool that makes it very easy to backup your website even if you are new to Joomla! and web presence.

RSFinder!
This handy extension gives you a quick access to anything on your Joomla website by creating hot keys at your keyboard.

jSecure Authentication
Don’t give the hackers an easy access to your insights, this small Joomla! module will help you.

Photos and Images

Phoca Gallery
This nice Joomla! component is an image gallery with a slideshow. Give your visitors a comfortable image gallery

Simple Image Gallery
An easy way to add images to your Joomla! articles.

Expose Flash Gallery
This is a great extension, it allows you to create an awesome Flash based gallery with your images and pictures.

Social Networking

Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin
This great plugin adds small to all the the major social media bookmarking applications to the bottom of your articles.

Twitter Module
Twitter is one of the most powerful social websites nowadays. This little plugin allows you to display tweets from the account you identify, giving you an opportunity to encourage Twitter followers.

Twitter Plugin
This plugin makes a tweet each time you have a new article posted, thus letting know your Twitter followers that you have an update at your Joomla website.

Sociable Plugin
A very convenient tool that inserts small social media bookmarking and sharing links at the end of each of your articles.

Misc

JCE Content Editor
More feature rich content editor than your built-in Joomla editor, giving you complete control over your content.

jForm
Very easy, intuitive tool to add simple forms to your website.

JoomlaComment
If you want to get feedback from your visitors and readers than you need to allow them comment on your articles. This nice plugin will do the task.

What Joomla extensions you find to be the most useful while updating your websites?