I stumbled across a little thing called SlideShow Pro yesterday. I had been looking into some options for a portfolio web site, and also for the photo gallery on this site. SlideShow Pro is a very cool Flash "Component". You plug it into your Flash MX application, drop it into a movie, update some paramaters, and Boom! -- instant slide show. I was able to recreate my own photo gallery in about 45 minutes, start to finish. While I'd like to be able to modify more of the final product, the options that are available are pretty impressive. All for the low, low cost of $20 American. The base for this code comes from a designer/flash developer who, among other ...
You may or may not notice that all of the entry titles on the site have been updated. Instead of standard HTML, they're now rendered in Flash. Yep, every time I make a new post, I open up Flash, edit a title object, and save it as a SWF. Oh, and I do it three times - one for each style. No I don't. I stumbled across a technique this afternoon called Inman Flash Replacement. You may have seen it used over at ESPN.com. You'll probably see it at more sites in the future. What it boils down to is an ingenious way to replace text on a page with a stylized version, while leaving the semantic structure of the page ...