The science today seems to bring back the age of great discoveries.

Contemporary world is closer to the fantastic world that seemed to our ancestors unobtainable dreams of science fiction writers.

All science discoveries are nowadays appreciated and prized, and the most honorable among scientific awards today is Nobel Prize. Today, October 21, the whole world celebrates the birthday of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, a talented Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator and the founder of Nobel Prize.

Flashmint would love to join the celebration. So, today’s post is dedicated to Science & Technology Templates. Our designers suggest a variety of Flash, CSS, HTML and Swish templates on this theme.

For instance, this CSS web template would be a good way to represent any science company in the World Wide Web.

Among other Science and Technology templates offered at Flashmint I especially like this HTML template.

Isn’t it a best way to educate young generation, bring the greatest ideas and discoveries of the past and nowadays world to them?

I also really like this Tech research flash intro template. I think every research company would love to have such presentation of its work.

Well, this is our humble contribution to the contemporary science.

Our designers regularly enlarge this contribution, so check out our new Science and Technology Templates from time to time.

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

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Business Group Flash CMS Template 2219

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Insurance Business Flash CMS Template 2218

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Trade Company CMS Flash Template 2217

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Photo portfolio website templates have become extremely popular among the customers of Flashmint. For the time being there have been created about a hundred portfolio templates. Why they are so demanded can be explained in terms of their appealing web design and flash effects, wide range of layouts and affordability. Among photography portfolio templates there are also Flex CMS Flash templates, a unique creation from Flashmint web developers.

I have selected 10 photo portfolio templates which stand out among the rest with their original web design and prime functionality. This round-up is not only a chance for us to view the cream of web templates development, but also a great possibility to express our gratitude to all our web masters who make the greatest contribution to our triumph in this field.

Settle back comfortably in your chair and enjoy this set of ten portfolio templates. I am sure that you will definitely find something appealing to you no matter what you are working on, your personal or your customer’s project. This is it…

Photographer website CMS v2 flash template 2208

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Photography website CMS flash template 2207

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1. Could you explain to people who don’t know, what Xpellshop is?

At first there only was Xpell.com, a very nice website, coded in Swish with 3D animations. It caused a sensation and we got many awards for our website. After that we started creating further websites and then we decided to sell them as templates. In such a way Xpellshop.com was born in 2003.

Xpellshop offers Swish and Flash templates maintaining the highest standards of quality. We specialize in code and design of Swish templates because Swish is much cheaper than Flash and offers the same opportunities to create multimedia websites with nice effects. Our customers are mostly web designers who order our Swish templates, modify and sell them to their customers. It is really fast to buy a professional design and only make some changes in the content.

2. What was your motivation for starting Xpellshop? What was it like in the beginning?

Customers, who want to have very nice individual Flash websites, have to pay really much money. Our idea was to offer them much cheaper. To sell one design for $3500 is not so easy. But to sell a very nice design 10 - 50 times is more likely.

3. What are the core principles you use in your daily work?

It is important to work reliably and create a design that identifies the topic of the template. I also try to code the templates simply, so that customers can modify them very fast. And I make video tutorials to show them how to customize them.

When I create a Swish template, the most of work takes up the design. I try many different colors and positions and only when I see “that’s the perfect design for this topic” I start working and code the template. While coding, I start realizing how to animate it. That’s a growing process and at the end there is a (hopefully) nice template.

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