- Macromedia Style Menu. Flash Done Right. — Every serious web site does need a navigation menu. Any objections? OK, let’s go further. The best looking and acting menus are Flash ones, it’s a well-known statement. As well-known, as Flash technology’s drawbacks: large size, difficulties of design, search engines unfriendly-ness (they can’t follow Flash links, and thus can’t index entire web-site properly). Less known fact is that you CAN really use…
- 3S Web Tools v2.5. Web Developer's Joy. — The website development is a strange thing. Unlike other programming and near-programming activities, webdev requires much more of good taste, common sense, and wish to «do well» rather than strong programming skills. And even when some (or more) of programming IS required, such tasks are rather routine and only require time and accuracy, not «fantasia». So, whenever somebody or something can relieve you from such kind…
- Flash Text Effects Components, Artistic Writing — Flash is most likely today’s most full-featured artistic canvas in the Internet. With Flash, your imagination has literally no boundaries despite of how abstract or specific your tasks are. Moreover, another good thing about Flash lies in its capability to tightly integrate your own artistic ideas with ones created by other recognized professionals. Flash Text Effects Components is a huge set of text appearance effects, which…
- Sketsa SVG Editor 4.2.1, Modern Easy Graphics — Sketsa SVG Editor is modern lightweight cross-platform vector graphics editor with strong relation to the open format known as Scalable VectorGraphics or SVG. Sketsa combines easy user interface, familiar to any digital painter or designer, with deep capabilities to utilize the SVG ideology and features. Sketsa has modern tabbed interface, where you can edit any number of SVG files simultaneously. The application’s toolbox consists…
- SWF Toolbox 3.1.12, Obedient Flash — The Flash (SWF) and Flash Video (FLV) file formats are very common and useful on the Web. Their only drawback is their «thing in itself» nature: You hardly can change those files, extract their parts or convert them to other formats. You hardly can — unless you have SWF Toolbox! In this case, you can do virtually any conversion with Flash/Flash Video files. Here is an (incomplete) description of what SWF Toolbox allows…
- Qengine. Test Your Web Site. — Nowadays, when the role of the Internet in carrying on the business can hardly be overstated, it is really important to organize the functioning of your web sites and web applications properly. In order to get that done, you would need a powerful automated testing tool, such as QEngine. AdventNet’s QEngine is a complete automated web testing tool for the functional, performance, load, web-servicesá and regression…
- Aero SWF.max 1.5.800, Flash Can Play Better — Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is an all-today’s-goodies format. Small games, rich interfaces, video publishing, blah-blah. But there’s one major drawback of downloaded flash videos: it’s their playback. Flash packed as EXE behave like a video-player with very poor features, other flash formats (swf, flv) are typically opened in browser and behave like a video-player without any features, even play/pause. If there…
- Aurora Web Editor 2.2, Site Editor with a Human Face — Nowadays, the term «website» is really diffused. Google «is a website»? Amazon «is a website»? A personal homepage of an Oxford professor or New-York worker «is a website»? Then, what does it mean «to create a web-site»? OK, let’s turn back from the philosophy to the practice. Suppose, you want to have a simple, few-page website…
- Beneton Movie GIF 1.1.1, Mature Tool For Small Movies — Despite the new cool competing technologies, simple GIF file animation is still widely used, especially in the web. There are many reasons to prefer GIF-based «movies» — they are lightweight, supported by a wide range of browsers, they don’t require any plugins or browser additions and advanced users can work with them just like with other «normal» images. Though, there is a huge lack of right tools…
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