Make Flash Sites More Searchable - 1
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Most internet users are yet to figure out what it means when a tool tip slides down the browser window with blocked pop-ups or missing plugins. If your target audience is largely made up of such users, using flash is a bad idea.
Flash sites are without doubt beautiful. But think twice before using flash, and […]
Jumping through Hoops with Acrobat
PDF files are used on hundreds of different sites, they’re something that you either love or hate! Adobe created the PDF format in 1993, so by computer standards it’s prehistoric! Adobe has recently launched a new version of their PDF reader software, this one is called Reader 9.
I’m not really a big fan of Acrobat […]
Make Flash Sites More Searchable - 0
Despite Flash Search Engine SDK, and any other methods that search engines employ to crawl flash sites, a debate has been going on. On one side are those who believe that flash sites can be optimized to climb up the search engine ladder, and on the other side are those who say that it is […]
Don’t Click it
Have you ever visited this flash site? With nearly 2.5 million visitors so far, you might have. I’m reminded of a quote that I had read ages ago. Paraphrased, it reads like this: There are only two groups of flash fanatics — those who have visited this website, and those who will. The website takes […]
How Search Engines Index Flash Sites
SEO is always on the minds of flash site designers. How well or unwell are flash sites indexed by search engines? How at all?
Google was the first engine to index .PDFs, .DOCs, other dynamic content, and also flash, through its in-house methods. Later, FAST became the first engine to index flash sites using the Flash […]
SmallWorld Is Flashingly Bigger
The Flash and Flex based new startup virtual world SmallWorld finally opens its door to beta testers. If you previously signed up for the beta then you should be able to login and find the virtual you in the small world. I did.
The experience is very different from Second Life. I guess because of avoiding […]
Flashing Handwriting Analysis
Bumped into this very interesting Flash site that does analysis on you handwriting and the result could be either entertaining or surprising, TUL.com.
Basically you click through the choices that illustrate the handwriting types and at the end the video shows you what kind of person you are. You need be patient though because you have […]
A Handy Flash Brainstorm Tool
Sometimes you just want to dump what ever in your mind to somewhere, someplace or some software. You can only move on when you know that you won’t loss what you had in mind. That’s why there are those brainstorm software such as the popular MindJet’s MingManager. Sometimes you just want to have something simple […]
Google Flex Map Demo - Helps Earthquake Relief Efforts Too
I post a peek review on how coming ESRI ArcGIS Flex API helps on China Earthquake Relief with a demo map application. When I said “peek”, I meant it literally. If you missed it then you have to wait. Before that I gave the new kid on block, Google Map API for Flash, a try. […]
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