http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog useful tips and resources Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:40:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Web design is a fun and rewarding field to participate in. Sometimes, however, we run into problems when it comes to finding the right image to help make the design complete. The internet is full of great sites that provide photos and images that are royalty-free and free of ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/10/31/10-sites-to-find-free-photos-for-web-design/ Over the last few months me and my designer-developer buddies have been sharing our favourite web design tools, tricks and tips. Our final conclusion was that it's very exciting to be a designer these days. The web is quite gushing with many cute designing apps and tools. Below you will find our ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/10/29/5-free-web-designers-resources-you-must-know/ Quantum of Solace 007 Mario Kart Wii Wario Land: Shake it! Star Wars: The force unleashed Fracture Dragon Hunters http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/10/25/game-websites-in-flash/ Railway Express demo is one of the best samples in 3D Flash development. Credit Links Demo http://www.closier.nl/playground/railaway_express.html About http://away3d.com/away3d-22-railaway-express Via http://www.beedigital.net http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/10/23/railway-express-in-away3d/ You may want to apply JavaScript for thumbnail or photo galleries in some of your web projects. This post features many different styles of image galleries that are easy to use in your web pages. Showcase (Prototype extension) Coverflow in JavaScript Galleriffic (jQuery plugin) Space Gallery (jQuery plugin) Content Slider Other JS galleries: minishowcase JonDesign's SmoothGallery Slimbox (Lightbox clone) Lightbox ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/10/19/javascript-photo-galleries/ This is a quick listing of various styles of Flash MP3 players that you can apply in your websites for playing MP3 audio files. Flash MP3 Player by FlashMP3Player.org Different types of Flash MP3 players by flash-mp3-player.net DewPlayer by alsacreations.fr Customizable Flash MP3 Players by PremiumBeat.com FreeFlashMP3Player.com JW Media Player Flashmo MP3 Player http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/09/26/free-flash-mp3-players/   It is good to see the screenshots of upcoming Flash CS4 professional before it is released. Flash CS4 includes the following new features: Object-based animation Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool Motion editor Motion presets 3D transformation Procedural modeling Please follow below links for the Flash CS4 preview screenshots. Flash CS4: The photo tour of features - Flashthusiast Flash ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/09/24/adobe-flash-cs4-preview-screenshots/   Adobe has just announced new verson of its popular software products, Creative Suite 4 product family including Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Photoshop CS4, Fireworks CS4, Illustrator CS4, Acrobat 9 Pro, Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4 and more. Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection CS4 combines virtually all of Adobe's new design ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/09/24/adobe-creative-suite-4/ Jumpeye components is holding a Flash effect pattern contest with total 3 prices worth $7,500. Each winner will get $2,000 cache and $500 discount coupons to be spent on JumpeyeComponents.com products. The contest is open to any Flash developer. You need to have advanced skills for ActionScript 3.0 and strong OOP background to participate in the ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/09/23/flasheff-pattern-contest/ Did you know about Google Chrome (beta) which is new web browser just released? IF you are not, you shall try and see it in action. Some of the greatest features included are Dynamic Tabs - Drag and Drop tabs to arrange or group in any combination of multiple tabs or ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/09/03/google-chrome-beta/ This is just a small experiment on Flash bitmap smoothing in ActionScript 3. A small piece of codes can be sometimes too hard if one does not know how to write it properly. You may try the below sample and adapt it for your own Flash projects. View Sample SWF File ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/28/as3-bitmap-smoothing-in-flash/ You need to know some of the basic things about web design no matter you are making HTML, CSS or Flash websites for personal or commercial purpose. You need to focus on basic HTML first before you step into JavaScript or CSS or whatever. If you wish to make your ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/26/web-design-tutorials/ It is just a few number of lines for making a simple preloader. You may download this file as an example. Below codes are located in actions layer of preloader scene. [as] stop(); var loaded:Number; var percent:Number; fm_bar.addEventListener( Event.ENTER_FRAME, load_progress ); function load_progress(e:Event):void { loaded = stage.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded / stage.loaderInfo.bytesTotal; percent = Math.round(loaded * 100); fm_bar.scaleX = loaded; loader_info.text = "Loading... " ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/20/simple-preloader-in-actionscript-3/ It is pretty easy to make a custom right click menu or context menu in Flash ActionScript 3. You may try and adapt below source codes for your projects. [as]import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.ui.ContextMenu; var fm_menu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(); var copyright:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem( "Copyright © flashmo.com" ); var credit:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem( "Free Flash Templates" ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/20/right-click-menu-in-actionscript-3/ This flash contact form is simply made in Adobe Flash CS3 ActionScript 3. Email validation is better than previous version in ActionScript 2. It sends the form field variables to PHP and loads the response variables back to Flash using URLVariables, URLLoader, and URLRequest classes. It will be very useful ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/14/flash-contact-form-in-actionscript-3/ Here is a list of flash tutorial websites for learning ActionScript 3 that every flash developer should know. Flash and Math - related to Math and Science Metah.ch - video tutorials GotoAndLearn - video tutorials Oman3D - both textual and video tutorials Lemlinh.com - various collections of flash tutorials Learning ActionScript 3.0 GotoAndPlay FlashMyMind School of Flash The Tech Labs Flash ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/11/actionscript-3-tutorials/ Although 3D development in flash is still at the early stage, it is really amazing to see interactive flash websites in 3D environment. This post features some of the creative 3D flash websites for your inspirations and ideas. Enjoy! 13flo.com Nck Design Ten years VAIO 100 Best Films Ecsw.pl Honda Accord 2008 Related Links: Papervision3D Blog 3D Flash Websites ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/07/3d-flash-websites-part-2/ Did you know that you can build a flash photo gallery without any knowledge about Flash or ActionScripts or XML? There is a software which can easily create a photo gallery or slideshow for you within a few minutes. First, select some photos to put in your photo gallery. Second, select ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/05/create-photo-gallery-using-flash-slideshow-maker/ If you are a flash beginner, you should have read A Flash Journalism Presentation by Mindy McAdams which covers very good points about the Timeline and motion tweening. It is very easy for you to learn as the presentation is clearly demonstrated by screen captures. If you wish to learn further ... http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/07/31/flash-best-practices-part-2/ This post features a collection of 10 beautiful landscape wallpapers for your desktop. Related Links: 218 HD Resolution Desktop Wallpapers for Nerds 50 Remarkable Nature Wallpapers Hamad Darwish - World of Photography http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/07/23/10-beautiful-landscape-wallpapers/