Flash Resources

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Some excellent Flash resources I found recently:

For the few female developers out there, I give you Flash Goddess: a resource and community site, showcasing women who work with Flash.
For the QA Testers, how about Flash Switcher and KewBee Plugin Switcher, so you no longer need three dinosaur PCs just to test your Flash project in [...]

The Heated Debate Continues…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

…over the issue of Flash, among web developers and web designers alike. Take a look at the most recent article written at A List Apart.

Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet by Dan Mall

Personally, I think Flash is a very powerful web development tool. My favorite examples to point to are SlideShowPro, Fauxto and my most recent [...]

The IDM Major and Why it Worked for Me

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

I recently stumbled across this post on A List Apart. It advocates using a big-picture approach to implementing web standards in harmony with a web site’s intended design. The three major mindsets ALA named are The Writer, The Engineer, and The Artist. A short summary of the article:
Start by thinking like a writer. Outline the [...]

Case Study: Sale Books, part 2

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

After re-reading part 1 I realized I left out the sale book development timeline and examples:

The first generation started with the searchable catalogs.
The second generation was the Flash Paper pages.
The third generation began with the plan to create Flash animated pages.

As you can tell by the dates, the first two were still being implemented until [...]

Case Study: Sale Books, part 1

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

One of the first projects I worked on was building a better way to deliver print content on the web. Angus Productions Inc.’s bread and butter is building sale books for our breeders’ sales. One of the perks to ordering your sale book through API is a complimentary online version, posted to our breeder sale [...]