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Blog design showcase : Foozoo

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:13:46 +0000

The Foozoo design studio blog does not display images on its front page : black and white is the color of sobriety. Inside pages will feature, obviously, images, plus a nice soft blue font that highlights margins and Based on the very simple Hemingway-19 theme for wordpress, Foozoo adds a few very interesting plugins. Most interesting is the WP-cumulus plugin that transforms the original tag cloud to a real Flash based sphere with mouse 3D effect.

Flex coverflow component

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:34:56 +0000

Initially designed to display images, the Flex coverflow component displays a smooth carousel of still shots and has been extended to disaply videos. This is the Video cover flow that illustrates Flex components in Adobe’s Flex beginners screencast. The image Cover Flow component is available via Doug Mc Cune’s blog, who is the guru behind this magnificient opensource release.

Flash CMS goes opensource with SILEX GPL

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:18:33 +0000

Is full wyisiwyg still possible in a world of multiple technology convergence ? Working with Flash has many drawbacks among which HTML Search engine optimization is one of the most important. Silex CMS tackles with that issue and many more. And this opensource GPL FLASH CMS provides more than just content management via Flash based interface.

Content Management in Silex is based on pages containing multiple layers. Theming is a root feature of the software that includes sample corporate, audio book, gallery book template. While we find navigation on the main website difficult, we think the idea of a flash based cms is worth considering.

Multilingual ability : The new multilingual functionality is used to provide you with a website in English and French and soon in Spanish. Nothing was duplicated, just like the software itself it switches automatically to the appropriate language and you are able to switch from a language to another during navigation.

SEO : html equivalent of your SILEX websites is generated on the fly for search engines mostly. each page of each application has its own url ! Useful to send a link to a specific page by e-mail and provides instant deep linking ability

more at http://silex-ria.org/

drag & drop tree

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:16:45 +0000

Drag and Drop Tree Component . Allows dragging of nodes within a tree, dragging external objects to a tree, and dragging nodes to a custom trash object, re-ordering nodes with drag & drop, populating the tree from an xml document, retrieving an xml string representing the tree

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=804451

Monoslideshow : versatile and efficient

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:38:13 +0000

Monoslide show is a great gallery / slideshow flash applet that takes images list from user edited XML configuration file. One of its great features, apart from the incredible flexibility it allows, is the quality of the transition effects, such as Random Ken Burns effect that will do the trick for most professionnal movie like silide shows ! One drawback is that it lacks a user friendly admin module, every configuration has to be edited via the XML file. Just that is powerful enough though, and worth its price.

http://www.monoslideshow.com/