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November 30th, 2003

Macromedia Central Apps Licenses

CentralMX have an interesting discussion on Licenses for Internal Central Company Apps. Also read more of the similar topic at continued thoughts on Central licensing.

Brajeshwar | 2 comments

November 28th, 2003

Making Sense of Googles New Update

“On Friday, 21st November, Google decided to tighten the “filter”. All hell broke loose as tens of thousands of sites disappeared from positions they had held (in some cases) for years. We noticed some of our client sites plummeting for their major key phrase from being #1 to total invisibility. Yet this was only in highly competitive areas, not for their secondary phrases. These sites were, in most cases, not highly optimized, had not sought reciprocal links but had achieved their rankings through being on the web for 4 or 5 years. The bad news was that their company name and domain included the key phrase, sites (including directories) linking to those sites included the key phrase in their links and Google interpreted this as over-optimization and down they plunged. In many areas all the top 20 ranking sites disappeared, including industry leaders, to be replaced by educational sites, news review sites, government sites, major shopping portals or directories. Something major had happened - but what?”, reports at Making Sense of Googles New Update

Brajeshwar | No comments

November 27th, 2003

More Than a Flash in the Pan

Flash Animation : This is definitely worth a blog, “when Macromedia?s Flash animation software first appeared around 1997, it was considered mostly as a toy for Internet users. By 2000, it was an increasingly sophisticated and necessary toy for Internet users who wanted to add glamour to their Websites. Today professional animators have increasingly used it as a serious production tool for broadcast TV.”
Fred Patten interviews some of the leading professionals who are using Flash to make TV series. Read the full article.

Brajeshwar | 1 comment

November 26th, 2003

Macromedia Flex MarkUp language

Flex evangelist Christophe Coenraets introduces J2EE developers to the new language for developing RIAs.

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/paradigm.html

Hemant | No comments

November 23rd, 2003

Move over, I am a Flash Whizkid

I just got a mail and I posted the details on an entry on my site, and I think Navneet too got a similar mail. Here comes a Flash Whizkid, aged six.

Brajeshwar | 3 comments

November 21st, 2003

Flash Menu Auto Title Selection

I beleive some of you would have tried or implemented this technique, A single Flash menu on all pages but gets highlighted according to the respective page, sounds confusing right, just download the downloads/vinod/menu.zip” target=”_blank” title=”Flash Menu Auto Title Selection - fxtreme”>menu.zip file and unzip them and choose about.htm, This code is from a live project so most of the contents are deleted and only “about” and “product” menu works
Continued

Vinod | No comments

November 21st, 2003

Central SDK Release

Not sure whether you’ve seen it already, Macromedia announced the release of Central SDK.

And there is a Central Freeware Finder to find freeware Central applications.

I hope to provide plenty of tips & tricks on building Central apps in the future

Rajender | 1 comment

November 20th, 2003

Central RIAs on AIM & ICQ

America Online on Wednesday said it will open the door for Macromedia software developers to create applications on its AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ products.

AOL will provide to Macromedia Central its application programming interfaces and development tools for AIM and ICQ. Developers can then integrate the IM software’s real-time communications and online presence features into their products.

via CNET News

Rajender | No comments

November 18th, 2003

CSS best practices

Navneet Nair Pointed to a good article, CSS best practices. It is a good read and I find the comments equally valuable to the post itself, so do not forget to read the coments (watch out for eric meyer himself commenting on the same).

Brajeshwar | No comments

November 17th, 2003

Good Web design practice

This is not so explicit but it is a well known fact these days to abide by the web standards and in term with usability, user experience; all this just boils down to the old saying that “user is the king”. One such point is that “60% Logo linked to Home plus explicit Home link at the top of the page”. Read about the same at Global Home Link, an article from webdesignpractices.com.

Brajeshwar | 2 comments