Hello everybody!  Our team was happy to admit that our Flash CMS has already become a part of work plans of so many talented developers and designers. And we thought it would be great to cooperate!

So in this post we announce a Contest for Best Graphic Design for Flash Website. The winning design will be used as a theme coming with FlashMoto CMS. For us it’s a wonderful opportunity to share the project workflow with the audience. For you it’s a great chance to show off your talent by making your design a part of next-generation Flash tool.

So far FlashMoto CMS is equipped with just one template theme. We are going to create at least five more by the time of final release. Join in the contest and become our team mate!

What will winner get?

The winner of the contest will be determined by FlashMoto team. We will look through all participants’ works and choose the one. The author of the best graphic design will get $300. And imagine how many people will get to know your name by ordering FlashMoto CMS packaged with a design theme made by you. Not a bad bonus, huh?

All other decent and worthy designs will be showcased at our blog along with the links to their developers’ websites. We could buyout some designs as well.

Criteria

One of the main features our Flash CMS offers to users is that any website can be managed in it. That’s why we don’t have any special rules or limits concerning participating designs. Our wishes are: presence of such elements as drop down menu, music player, news or gallery block, forms. Remember that by choosing Flash, users mean an attractive, eye-catching dynamic website full all specific features only Flash may provide. This is what you might keep in mind while preparing your design project.

In case you created a few projects you think could be winning and can’t decide on which one might be your priority for the contest, send all of your artworks! We will pay attention to each one.

Deadline

Send your .jpg files at flashmotocms [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line “FlashMoto Design Contest” Theme_title or leave links to the designs in Comments. Deadline for entries is 17^th of July. Please provide your name, website address and country you are from as well. The winner will be announced in our blog shortly after the contest has been over.

Join FlashMoto Design Contest today, be creative and win! Check our blog and sign up for Project News to get to know the name of the winner first!

ColorWheel is a flex component for any kind of DisplayObject or any DisplayObject subclass that can apply filters with new FileReference features.

It is based on ColorMatrixFilter that allows you saturation changes, hue rotation, luminance to alpha, etc. Easy way to work with ColorMatrixFilter gives ColorMatrix class by Mario Klingemann.

The component also uses new ability of the Flash Player 10 FileReference class to load and save data without server. ColorWheel can be easily customized using its custom properties and events to suit your application’s design and to integrate with your other classes and components. As usual use right click to view and download source.