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Are you familiar with the page flip effect? You must have known it: this function allows you to imitate the natural way of browsing through the pages of a true book or document, and at the same time this is a traditional digital way of managing a publication with such options as jumping to another page, copying and pasting text content, inserting external links, and so on.
Have you ever heard about a digital flip book with a WYSIWYG Editor integrated and the ability to manage the website content without even closing your browser’s window? We are sure you have never faced with such a wonder before… Before now, because FlashMoto, as always, implements the most unbelievable ideas into real products!
Well, our dear audience, we are proud to present you a New Flash CMS Flip Book solution. It is the first Flash CMS template from Flash Moto of such a format, but not the last one for sure!
This stunning Flash CMS template with the page flip effect is a quick and convenient way of publishing your book, magazine, catalogue, brochure, report or any publication online. The page flip component gives a great opportunity to present your written works using modern multimedia technologies, and at the same time save the effects of traditional print. Also, this Flash CMS template will be an ideal solution for many business projects.
It is all known highly repetitive, but true fact that Flash technology opens the widest opportunities for implementing the most unbelievable interactive ideas into life. The most important is to find the right “combination” of graphics, video, animation and sound.
The essential component for an online artist’s portfolio or exhibition is gallery. That is why Flash is a highly popular technology that uses for artists’ online portfolios: the opportunities for a modern art gallery are infinite. With Flash the result is always amazing, impressive, unusual…
For this post we have collected the most unusual, unbelievable, extraordinary Flash websites devoted to the works of outstanding and talented people. If you find something useful and inspiring for yourself, we will be more than happy!
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Jota Leal
The exhibition of a Venezuelan caricaturist Jota Leal. His works are amazing. An interesting fact is that Jota never studied Fine Art. A zoom gallery is the essential element of this Flash website: it’s rather convenient and allows us to view the works of this talented artist in detail.
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Pavle Kuzmanoski
The retrospective exhibition of Pavle Kuzmanoski’s works, a famous Macedonian artist. Drawing structures of Kuzmanoski contain a lyrical and sensual component.
The Flash website devoted to Kuzmanoski’s works is created in light colors. The most impressive part of the website is, of course, the gallery. For viewing the artist’s works choose the category first, and then click the thumbnail of any work you would like to view. When the zoom gallery will be opened, you may easily examine the art works in detail.
Flash is motion. Flash is interactivity. With this technology almost any unbelievable website idea may be realized. That is the reason why motor companies often choose Flash for presenting their brands or new car models. The mission of a motor company’s website is to reproduce all the vehicle’s functionality, show its interior and exterior in the best possible way, let people explore the car in detail. Nothing would work better than Flash with its widest opportunities.
Automotive Flash websites are a real Klondike of creative ideas: interactive elements, originally designed photo and video galleries, great graphics, and many more… So, if you search for some inspiration, you have come to the right place.
For this showcase we have collected the most stunning Flash automotive websites. They are all unbelievably attractive, interesting and very informative. If you are a motor car admirer, be sure you will really enjoy it!
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Spectre Performance
Spectre Performance is the company that produces products for speed and power. Moreover, they rebuild cars and make them fast and powerful. The Flash website of this unique company is really amazing. It is not only visually attractive, but also functionally correct: everything is neat, perfectly designed and loads in a few seconds. There is a great example of how a professional Flash website should look like.
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Panamera
“Panamera” is a member of Porsche’s family. From the very first sketch, this car was destined to be like every great Porshe before it: a true, groundbreaking original. And of course, for presenting such a “beauty” Flash technology works the best: interactivity, functionality and originality are presented in full. You may explore the car’s interior and exterior, tech specs, etc. You may even choose the technology that the best fits for you. And the unusual gallery, created in the form of a tree, presents the stories and legends of Porsche’s lovers in a really original manner.
It’s no secret that Flash Photo gallery is the most asked-for component among our customers. And it is precisely this fact that explains the popularity of the Flash CMS templates created especially for photographer’s/designer’s portfolios, design studios or model agencies websites. Dynamic interactive image gallery is a must have for such web pages.
And today we want to focus your attention on the recently added Flash CMS Galleries powered up by FlashMoto. These fresh and inspiring photo galleries present the creative and original ideas of displaying images online and impress both in terms of functionality and professional look.
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Flower Style Image Gallery created on Papervision 3D
What makes this Flash design unique and original is an amazing flower style image gallery done on Papervision 3D. The advanced Photo gallery may contain the unlimited number of images. Each image has a thumbnail what makes searching and browsing more convenient. Moreover, each photo may have a short description and may link to a pop-up, any website page or even external URL.
There are two types of menu: classic two-level menu and graphical 3D menu that uses Papervision 3D library. This graphical 3D menu makes it possible to use images and descriptions for each menu element.
The end of April was marked by another wave of polemics and heated disputes around Flash. This controversy has been primarily caused by “Thoughts on Flash” by Steve Jobs. And again Flash supporters defend this technology praising its advantages and possibilities, whereas their opponents find more and more its weak points.
People tend to associate Flash content with two things: video and games. But it’s far from being right, as Flash has a great potential and provides a bunch of opportunities to create appealing portfolios, commercial and promotional websites, educational websites and even online stores. And today we want to focus your attention on e-Commerce websites based on Flash.
Who said that Flash is inappropriate for online shops?! We will prove you the opposite by selecting the most striking and powerful Flash e-Commerce designs.
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The Wrangler Collection
Blue Bell, a company remarkable for manufacturing quality denim, launched a creative Flash website for the Wrangler brand. The website tells a story in three chapters about the Wrangler Spring/Summer 2010 Collection.
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Lacoste
Lacoste, one of the most popular trademaks, also made its choice for benefit of Flash. The website is bright and vivid, dynamic and interactive.
In the age of Internet portfolio websites became an inalienable attribute of any graphic designer, web developer, artist, photographer or even musician, as it showcases his works, reflects the way he does business and creates an overall impression about him. But sometimes creating a personal portfolio might seem to be a real challenge for some people, as it requires some aspects to be taken into consideration: creativity, usability, the ease of use and of course professional look. You should also define the purpose of your portfolio: whether it is for sales generation, reputation building, networking or finding a new job. So, you need to understand what kind of portfolio you are creating. And just remember, there is no any single “right” way of creating portfolios, as it’s something personal that expresses your personality.
When the slightest detail is analyzed and all priorities are set right, then it’s time for creativity and designing. And just imagine what incredible things you can do with Flash: amazing animation and dynamic effects, beautiful sound accompaniment, page transition animation, extraordinary website navigation, etc. Flash technology allows you to realize the most audacious approaches what will make your portfolio original, vivid and eye-catching.
Hopefully, this showcase of fresh inspiring Flash based portfolios will help you end up with a successful idea for your own portfolio. Thanks to designers whose sites are presented below.
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Adhemas.com
Portfolio of Adhemas Batista, art director, designer, illustrator and photographer from California. Adhemas has been in business of selling colors since the age of 15. He is a self-taight digital artist known for his colorful and distinctive illustartive style.
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Martin Anderle’s Portfolio
Martin Anderle is a freelance interactive designer and developer based in Frankfurt. He specializes in developing Flash micro and portfolio websites, what is not surprising, because his portfolio is simply stunning.
While searching the web, we come across hundreds of creative and really attractive Flash websites that again and again convince us of the effectiveness and necessity of Flash. With Flash technology you can do more than just displaying images or video. Flash allows you to create amazing visual experience and produce beautiful and fascinating masterpieces that impress everyone with striking animation effects and dynamism, music and videos, charming visual elements and interactive navigation menus.
Flash offers you a great variety of means to find your own, unique approach to creating animated web sites that may not look like standard web pages at all. With Flash designers can achieve results which simply aren’t possible with HTML and CSS, can’t they?! Whether you like Flash or not, it is very powerful.
On this matter we want to bring to your attention 10 most fascinating unusual and outstanding examples of Flash based websites you’ve ever seen!
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Syfy.com
One of the main rules to stick to while creating a website is not to overdo it. A talented graphic designer should feel that subtle edge between “too little” and “too much” creating truly elegant, impressive and of course user-friendly web page designs. Everything should be harmoniously combined and well balanced without overwhelming the website structure and confusing its visitors.
But sometimes wisely used extreme simplicity speaks even more, that is less is more or maybe even less but better. Yeah, what is at issue is the minimalist approach in website creation.
Minimalist websites are usually determined by:
- the use of the basic geometric shapes as outlines
- the use of tasteful non-fussy bright color combinations
- usually natural textures and colors
- an economy with words
- the absence of cluttered forms and complex navigation
- extreme simplicity, lightness and at the same time full self-descriptiveness of the design.
Well, this time we decided to collect the stunning Flash websites created in minimalist style that managed to convey the main idea of the website using less graphics and extra features. Hoping, you will enjoy the collection and find something fresh and inspiring.
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Paintwithben.com
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Lidu.fr
We guess, everyone is aware of the situation that has arisen over the Internet around Flash and recently launched HTML 5. We are not going to make predictions or discuss the advantages and drawbacks of the functionality based on these two technologies or even argue with the followers of this or that point of view. But this controversy simply made us to look deeper into different types and kinds of Flash website design. We did a research during which we came to conclusion that Flash is still in huge demand among users. And therefore today we want to concentrate your attention on the winning examples of Business website design.
Is Flash suitable for Business websites creation? Or are you still convinced that we should keep to the beaten track and create static corporate websites?
Well, let’s analyze the main requirements of Business websites.
- Clean, well-designed page layouts, not “graphics heavy”, not gaudy or in-your-face.
- Good navigation design (including drop down navigation menu). To provide users with excellent navigation is by far the most important task, but not an easy one.
- Clean photos and site graphics, optimized to the smallest possible file size for quick loading.
- Availability of the contact form, pop-up windows and other convenient extras that enrich user’s experience.
How many of those cannot be realized if a site is made entirely in Flash? Zero. That’s right. So, lean back in your chair and enjoy the collection of business Flash website designs!
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LoadedSmoothies.co.za
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Airswe.com
By the way, the website owned by Swedish airline is powered by FlashMoto Flash CMS. See the original design here.
Flash is probably the most fertile ground for web designer to realize his most unbelievable fantasies. No other platform can treat users to such variety of animation, images, videos and sound effects. As a consequence, Flash requires pretty much time to load and users have to show a good bunch of patience to enter a Flash website. But how to make a visitor spend their time and patience with no regret and even with pleasure? “No regret” objective can be achieved by creating a breathtaking Flash design and site’s content the visitor will see after the site is loaded. Quality preloader can help in solving the “pleasure” task. The main purpose of the website preloader is to inform visitors how much time the website needs to be loaded. However, you can make simple preloader work as a spicy feature of site’s content. This will catch visitor’s attention right at the preloading stage and provide their longer stay on the website.
In this post you will find a collection of most creative Flash preloaders picked by FlashMoto and also some information about preloaders generating. We hope it will be useful for your Flash projects. While viewing our collection please notice that depending on the connection preloaders may quickly disappear (you’d better decide whether it’s a disadvantage or not after looking through the following collection! 
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1. Typo elegance.
They say brevity is the soul of wit. See the examples of how simple but big typography can attract your attention.
Promo video is squeezed into big sized percentage figures and turns full screen again after the site is loaded.
