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How to rank well with Flash movies Flash movies are a popular way to make websites more compelling. They are useful if you want to impress your website visitors or if you offer web design services.Unfortunately, if you use Flash movies, or if you even design your complete website based on the Flash technology, your odds of getting listed in the search engines are greatly reduced.Read this article to find out how to rank well with Flash movies. read more:
How to get high Google rankings with Flash sites Flash movies are a great way to add multimedia elements to a web site. Unfortunately, Flash cannot be indexed by most search engines. For that reason, it is very difficult to get high search engine rankings for Flash sites. This article explains how to get top rankings on Google with Flash sites. read more:
Troubleshooting: how search engines can misunderstand your web pages This is a common problem. Your web designer has created a beautiful page with nice graphics, great content and great Flash animations. Unfortunately, it seems that search engines won't list your website no matter what you do. read more:
StopattheShop.com's Horrible Reliance on Graphics A small chain of audio/video stores burdens its web site with graphics to the point where search engines would have... read more:
PyMOL PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations. read more:
Sliding_up buttons Deluxe ($ 5.00) (By Acflash) This product is developed in Flash 8 and is compatible whit Flash MX 2004, read more:
Light buttons Deluxe ($ 15.00) (By Acflash) Macromedia flash library, just drag and drop the button in your flash movie, read more:
The Flash Satay method to embed flash in your pages and support standards This weeks tip: Use the Flash Satay method to embed flash in your pages and support standardsThe standard way to embed flash within a web page is to use the object element; the W3C tell us that the object element is an, 'all-purpose solution to generic object inclusion'. So that's fine and handy - however, the object element is not supported by all web browsers. Developers have tried to work around this deficiency by adding the non-standard (but working) embed tag into their markup - effectively repeating all the necessary attributes in each tag. Using the embed tag means that pages will no longer validate - a situation which makes developers who pride themselves on their adherence to standards rather uncomfortable. During a discussion about this issue on the Guild of Accessible Web Designers mailing list, I was alerted to an article by Drew Mclellan who addresses this very problem. Drew provides a solution that ensures flash works in many more browsers without failing validation tests, a solution he calls the, 'Flash Satay method'.For the full story and his detailed solution of how to embed flash in your pages and keep them standard compliant, read Drew's excellent article at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/Links: Guild of Accessible Web Designrs Flash Satay Article W3C information about object element read more:
How to hide a flash movie from screen readers and keyboard users Adding a Flash movie to your web page may be making the content of that page inaccessible to some visitors. For example, Keyboard users and people using screen reader users are likely to run into the following problems: The keyboard cannot be used to 'focus' on the flash movie, i.e. the user can't tab to the movie object and explore the content. When navigating the flash movie via the keyboard it is impossible to get back out again - making it impossible to explore the rest of the page.Here are a couple of tips for getting around the problems:Make the Flash movie invisible to keyboard users. If the flash movie does not contain valuable content, i.e., it might just be for decoration - the following technique can be used to make the flash movie invisible to keyboards and screen readers:Use the wmode option within the embed and the object tag,
Get a free copy of Graphics Server .NET: Widgets Edition You can download a free copy of Graphics Server .NET Widget Edition over on David Johnson's blog until January 16, 2005.
The Widget Server edition has a lot of graphical meters & indicators that can be significantly customized for use in monitoring programs. It can be used on both WinForms and WebForms. read more:
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Sorenson Squeeze 4.3 update now available Sorenson Squeeze is a very nice, multi-format encoding tool. This almost-entirely-Flash-focused update…Adds alpha channel support for the On2 VP6 codecAdds On2 VP6 Pro plug-in support for MacintoshAllows you to create embedded cue points for FlashImproves Flash Player skin templates for SWF and FLVLets you create linked or embedded FLV for SWF filesLets you to enter [...] read more:
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Error ''Codec Initialization Error'' when attempting to export as Flash Video (FLV) (Premiere Pro 2.0) IssueWhen you try to export a Timeline as Flash Video, the export fails and Adobe Premiere Pro displays the error message "Codec Initialization Error".DetailsYou are exporting to a hard disk with low disk space.SolutionsDo one or more of the... read more:
Advertiser Sneaks Malware into Flash Ad An underhanded advertiser trick that hit LiveJournal demonstrates a risk of accepting Flash ads -- they can pop up windows:
... the Flash ad contains code to open a popup that leads to a very different destination -- it's what I assume is an affiliate link that attempts to download and install ErrorSafe on your computer (link is to Symantec's description of it).
This, of course, would be totally against any ad company's guidelines. Masquerading as a banner ad, but discreetly opening a popup -- and not only that, but to what people consider malware -- is totally against any ad company's guidelines. So how did it get through?
Simple -- the ad actually contacts its website in the background, and the site returns a response code that tells it whether to display the popup or not - 'popup=1'. My guess is that kpremium.com returned 'popup=0' while the ad company were testing the ad for conformance to guidelines, and then they turned it back on once it was out in the wild.
Quick and Easy Flash Prototypes: Bring Your Wireframes to Life To tackle the classic “how to prototype rich interactions” problem, Alexa Andrzejewski developed a process for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive experiences using Flash. Requiring some fairly basic ActionScript knowledge, these prototypes proved to be a quick yet powerful way to bring interaction designs to life. Andrzejewski, Alexa read more:
Become An Expert Web Designer! Video tutorials and stunning templates show you how to create your own websites and graphics from scratch in the next hour! read more:
R System for statistical computation and graphics; an interpreted computer language which allows branching and looping as well as modular programming using functions. read more:
I've had a couple of questions by email that I should answer (note I've paraphrased some of these):
What fonts should I use for my HTML Media Center application and can I use Flash? The SDK is where to go for design guidelines for HTML applications (the short answer is to use a sans serif font). Yes, Flash can be used in HTML Media Center applications - Napster and MSN Music both use Flash.
How can I add an application to the Start Menu? You can't. Well OK, you can, but we recommend that only OEMs use this functionality as there is a limit to how many applications can appear on the start menu and adding a new app will stomp on existing applications. If you intend to distribute your application you shouldn't do this, but if you really want to know, the details are in the SDK here.
I've seen the Media Center software for sale online is it OK to buy it? I'm no lawyer so I'm not going to comment on this. Media Center is an OEM product and only available with new PCs is the official answer though.