FlashMoto more and more wins the hearts of Internet users and Flash developers. Recently our advanced Flash content management system has been reviewed by Crazy Leaf Design Blog – a useful resource dedicated to all aspects of web technology and graphic design. It covers the freshest IT news and inspirational articles, quality tutorials and interesting reviews, etc.

Alex Lonescu, the founder of CrazyLeaf Design Group, focuses on the key features of Flash Moto CMS and describes who FlashMoto is aimed at. You may also look through this review and new point of view by following this link: FlashMoto – A Content Management System for Flash

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But that’s not all. Here is one more good news for freelances, Flash developers or just for those who want to create an attractive Flash website with minimal costs. Kailoon.com, the website of professional web designer Kai Loon, holds a giveaway: 2 licenses of Flash Moto CMS and 3 Premium Concepts! You just need to tweet and comment on this article before 16th March 2010.

So, hurry up! And good luck!

It is a real challenge to review this new Flash CMS template as it’s full of attractive and alluring food images that will definitely give an edge to your appetite . Of course, images as any other design element of the website can be easily customized via FlashMoto Flash content management system, what makes this Flash template suitable for almost any type of business, for example: advertising agencies, design studios, restaurant or hotel business, Real Estate services or any other commercial activity.

Clean style, elaborate page layouts, convenient navigation, minimalist color scheme – everything speaks for itself. It’s a professional business Flash website design powered by FlashMoto. Dynamic Flash introduction, animation and beautiful graphics give the best representation of the products for the target market. It’s a balanced combination of good visual design and usability, resulting in the positive user experience.

Starting with this Flash CMS template we provide our customers with an opportunity to preload images. In the Media Library you will find a new option: “Preload Item“.

So, now you can choose which image to preload and which not. These images are loaded on the website loading stage what allows to depict them instantly while browsing a website. For example, if you make a site logo as an image, then we advise you to preload it, so that while viewing your web pages, the logo would show immediately. You may also preload background image or other images of your gallery to improve user experience.

Another wonderful feature of this Flash design is the stunning splash page slideshow with a simple navigation to stop and play it any time you wish. And that’s not all. This web template contains charming music tracks to any taste.

To get a feel for things and view this CMS Flash template in action, just try Online Demo.

Don’t forget to check our full collection of Flash CMS templates that impress with their site structure, content presentation and unusual approaches.

Recently we have launched a new stylish Flash CMS template done in black and red. As you have noticed, this FlashMoto template is characterized by the strict color scheme, angularity and accuracy of forms and ultimate usability. The black color is associated with elegance and formality. It gives the feeling of perspective and depth, while red is used like an accent color and is associated with energy, strength and determination. Both these colors are effective combined and create a very emotionally intense and powerful impression.

This Flash CMS template will greatly work for different business companies, educational projects, financial activities, informational projects, manufacturing services and etc.

Take a look at the template subpages.  Have you noticed the stunning image effects, how beautifully the color images turn into grayscaled images while you mouse over them?

‘About Us’ page:

‘Contacts’ page (Admin panel view):

FlashMoto Flash CMS provides mostly unlimited possibilities in customizing your Flash design. The website title and a tag line can be modified just in two clicks! Graphical menu is also easy editable. You can add as many buttons as your project needs. Different colors can be applied to each menu button. Here is the result of our unpretentious sample customization.

To get a feel for things and view this CMS Flash template in action, just try Online Demo.

Don’t forget to check our full collection of Flash CMS templates that impress with their site structure, content presentation and unusual approaches.

Hold on your breath – it’s a special long-awaited moment now!

Because we love our users so much, and because our users are so helpful, we are excited to announce the launch of the renewed Multilingual Flash CMS. We have a pretty good feeling that you’ll be as elated about this feature as we are. Our friends and customers from different countries have invested a lot of time into translating FlashMoto control panel into their native languages. We are very grateful to: Danny Cortes, Pavlin Boev, Catalin Cimpanu, Renato Cretella, Alec Toby, Széles Marcell, Huy Nguyen, Deden Ramadhan, Etrimon and Ivan Petrovic. BIG THANK YOU, GUYS! Your help is much appreciated!

FlashMoto Control Panel interface has been translated into the following languages:

Spanish	Bulgarian
Japanese	Romanian
Italian	Russian
Chinese	Hungarian
Vietnamese	Indonesian
Serbian	Czech

Moreover, we are looking forward to German, French, Turkish and Polish translations. So, 4 more languages will be added quite soon.

Note please: If you are a FlashMoto owner and want to take advantage of the multilingual Flash CMS, you need to download this archive. After that upload it via FTP to your server overwriting the existing files.

Though a lot has already been done, we know there is always much room for improvement!

We are super excited about a new Flash CMS template recently added to our collection and cannot wait to see the killer sites based on it. This time we present an amazing Flash CMS design that will greatly work for musical groups and artists websites, Radio Station website, music portals, music download sites, as well as for design studios, advertising agencies, any organizations and companies, or just for personal pages creation. The Home page opens with a stunning visual equalizer sprightly moving in time with the pleasant music. The default color can be easily customized via our CMS for Flash.

Check out the subpages of the template.
‘Who We Are’ page:

‘Contacts’ Page:

This Flash CMS template includes a BUNCH of new features that make us grinning ear to ear  . First of all this FlashMoto template is equipped with a Flash player with sound tracks and a real equalizer that analyzes sound spectrum and depends on the template sound accompaniment.
Moreover, Flash Moto CMS provides an opportunity to add effects to your equalizer. Let’s play with it a little and change the color of equalizer.

Here is what we got:

Or how do you like this one?

Here is one more sweet fact about this Flash CMS template. You may apply effects to any object of your Flash CMS website. We have used the ‘Colorize’ feature and changed the color of images, saturation, contrast and brightness. Impressive, huh?!

Start building a Flash CMS website now! With FlashMoto!

“That purpose, is to save you time.”

You know, recently our CMS for Flash has been reviewed by an experienced web developer, graphic designer, programmer and just an amazing guy – Andy Sowards.

Andy, being one of the most in-demand professionals in his sphere and a married father of 3 boys, have found time to give FlashMoto a test-drive. And we greatly appreciate it. In the review Andy shared his opinion on our Flash CMS and suggested what still could be improved. And of course, he was very lavish with praise, what made us definitely glad.

Before starting working with the CMS, Andy didn’t expect much from it. But once he logged into the system, he was very surprised:

Andy built a “test site” via FlashMoto and gave examples throughout the post. He covered the main Flash CMS features and described its main functionality and how it could benefit flash developers and end-users. OK, enough talking … Here is a link to Andy’s review:

FlashMoto CMS Review – Easiest way to make and manage Flash sites, Ever.

So, we hope this review written by Andy Sowards, will be interesting and useful for you. Thanks much, Andy!

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Please leave your comments, thoughts, and questions below!

This Search Engine Optimization Guide has been created as an effort to help FlashMoto website owners to optimize their Flash websites, but we think it will be just useful to webmasters who are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and search engines. This guide won’t tell you any secrets that’ll automatically rank your site first for search engine queries, but following the steps outlined below will make it easier for search engines to both crawl and index your content.

This is a huge myth that Flash websites are not shown up on Goggle. And you can make sure in it. According to SEOmoz, there are Top 5 Ranking Factors:

• Keyword Focused Anchor Text from External Links;
• External Link Popularity;
• Diversity of Link Sources;
• Keyword Use Anywhere in the Title Tag;
• Trustworthiness of the Domain Based on Link Distance from Trusted Domains.

These five general factors don’t consider whether a website made in Flash or HTML. And just before asking why Google doesn’t see your website, please verify if you have taken into account the factors mentioned above.

Of course, internal ranking factors: HTML keywords on the page, H1 tags, Meta titles and descriptions, sitemaps – are also very important. And only by uniting external and internal ranking factors you will be able to increase your Flash website visibility and become a success.

So, get ready and we will lead you through the simple procedure of search engine optimization of the FlashMoto website!

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1. FlashMoto Content Optimization. How our CMS for Flash works
Flash content, when used effectively, can work great for SEO. FlashMoto CMS is organized and functioning in the way that Google entirely indexes your Flash website content. The thing is Flash sites built with FlashMoto have two versions:
- Flash version (seen by users);
- HTML version (seen by search engines and users who don’t have Flash player).
Take a look at the screenshots below.

Flash version:

And HTML version:

2. Create unique, accurate page titles
Search engine optimization is often about making small modifications to parts of your website. And it’s very important to write accurate SEO and user friendly page titles. Ideally, you should create a unique title for each page on your site.

2.1. Go to your FlashMoto admin panel and choose any page you would like to work with. In our case we selected the Services page.

2.2. Go to the Page Settings (on the right) and edit the page title. The Title for your home page may contain the name of your website or business and also can include other important information (e.g. its physical location, main focuses or offerings). Title for other pages on your Flash CMS website should describe the focus of that particular page and also may contain your site name.

3. Improve the structure of your URLs
FlashMoto Flash content management system provides an opportunity to write “friendlier” URLS both for users and search engines. No more confusing and long URLs that can be hardly recited from memory!

Let your URLs contain relevant words. It will provide users and search engines with more information about the page. Moreover, come users may link to your page using the URL of that page as an anchor text.
To improve the structure of your URLs, please go to the Page Settings and edit the URL field.

4. Write the proper “Description” meta tag
A page description is a summary of what the page is about. And adding description Meta tag to each page of your website is always a good practice, as Google might use them as snippets for your pages. These snippets appear under the page’s titles and above its URL in search results.
Together with the Meta description you can also filled Meta keywords, though Google doesn’t value them much. So, select any page, then go to Page Settings -> Description (or Keywords).

5. Make use of “Do_Not_ Index” and “Do_Not_Follow”
You may also set the value of the “rel” attribute of a page to “nofollow” or “noindex’. It will tell Google that certain pages on your website should not be followed or indexed. Just check the boxes shown on the screenshot below and you are done.

6. Deep Linking. Write better anchor text
The link dilemma when using Flash has been successfully resolved by FlashMoto. From now Flash allows links to any page of your site build with our CMS for Flash. You can create deep links, links that take users to specific states of your application. You can also create Flash sites that are made up of multiple web pages, so individual states of the application can be linked to and so your users can use their browser’s back and forward buttons.
As for the anchor text, it is very important, because this text tells users and Google something about the page you are linking to. So, the better and more descriptive your anchor text is, the easier it is for users to navigate and for Google to understand what the page is about.
To create links just highlight the necessary text, then go to the Text Object area -> Properties and click on the Link icon. The Link Editor pop-up will appear. You can also set link to “NoFollow”.

7. Offer quality and useful content
As it is known, content is a King. And creating original and useful content will likely influence your website more than any of the other factors discussed here. Create content primarily for your users, not for search engines, but don’t miss an opportunity to use your keywords in the text.
Adding, editing or deleting your page content via Flash Moto CMS is as easy as A, B, C. Convenient WYSIWYG editor visualizes everything what you are doing.

Make sure you use heading tags appropriately.

8. Optimize your use of images
You can also optimize your use of images. All images can have a title and “alt” attribute, both of which you should take advantage of. This feature is completely realized and will be available the next Flash CMS version.

To add title and alt for an image, you should go to Preferences -> Media Library.

Media Library will open.

Double click on an image to choose it. The image with its properties will open in a new window where you will be able to specify its title and alt.

9. Make use of Google Analytics Statistics and Google’s Webmaster’s Tools.
Of course, you won’t be able to estimate your website productivity without tracking the traffic coming to your site and discovering the most popular content. Via our Flash CMS you can easily integrate Google Analytics tool and Google Webmasters Tool. The last one will help you better control how Google interacts with your website. For this you go to Preferences -> Website Preferences.

The Preferences pop-up window will open. Click on the Website tab, and then choose SEO Optimization. Check the checkboxes as shown on the screenshot below and provide the Google Analytics tracking code, Meta tag and file name for GWT. Save the changes.

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At the moment we are working on the sitemap creation, that will display the structure of your Flash CMS website. And though it’s aimed at human visitors, search engines also visit sitemap getting good crawl coverage of the pages on your website.

We hope our guide gives you some fresh ideas on how to improve your website, and we’d love to hear your questions, feedback and success stories.

Now working with FlashMoto CMS becomes even easier, as our partner – Template-Help.com – opens a section of FlashMoto CMS tutorials! These video tutorials deal with editing Flash CMS templates, managing your website content, pages, menu, preferences and effects, working with Flash CMS modules and components, and etc.

Learn how easy you can install a flash cms template and activate the software, edit text and images, add the new blocks, pages, popups, menu items and form modules. Step by step you will see how to configure the contact form, link menu buttons to external URLs, manage object placement positions and much more. Moreover, there are video tutorials that deal with the Font Manager and teaches the best practices method of creating the custom font and uploading it to your website.

Flash photo gallery module and media library component are also at the center of attention. The tutorials explain how to manage them in order to create a powerful and attractive Flash CMS website.

The FlashMoto section consists of the following video tutorials:

Flash CMS wizard overview
How to install a flash CMS template
How to edit text
How to edit images
How to duplicate objects
How to add a scroll
How to add a form module
How to add a new block
How to add a new menu
How to add a new page
How to add a new popup
How to configure the contact form
How to manage menus
How to link menu buttons to external URLs
How to manage object placement position
How to manage pages
How to manage website preferences
How to manage actions
How to manage effects
How to work with the font manager
How to manage the gallery module
How to manage the media library

FlashMoto is on the hunt for Flash and Flex developers. We are looking for qualified, motivated and innovative people with a creative mind and a keen understanding of user experience to join our engineering team and work on designing, developing and implementing Flash CMS templates, components, modules and plug-ins for an advanced Flash CMS. Candidates with extensive experience in web development and Adobe Flash are preferred. There are different terms for collaboration. The payment is subject to negotiation.

Requirements / Qualities:

1. For Flash/Flex Developers (components, modules and plug-ins development):
* Must have at least 2 years’ professional programming experience;
* Must have experience using the following technologies: Actionscript 3, Flex, OOP (Object Oriented Programming), AIR;
* Must have an online portfolio with the best examples of your work.


2. For Flash Developers (Flash CMS templates development):
* Must have at least 2 years professional experience;
* Knowledge of: Actionscript 3, Flash CS3 or CS4;
* Animation skills;
* Must have an online portfolio with the best examples of your work.

If you are interested in applying then please email us at support [at] flashmoto.com along with your contact details, your skills and your skill level, any examples of past work and any references you may have. Please include your hourly rate and the desired pay when applying. Make sure you specified the subject: ‘Job Application ‘.

Hope to hear from you soon!

There are situations when use of Flash can be inappropriate, for example when you need to create a complex online store. But if you want to present some multimedia content, particularly images, Flash can often be an excellent solution for you, with flexible image management for web designers and impressive visual presentation for users.

Everybody will agree that one of the indisputable advantages of Flash technology is the ability to create splendid slideshows and Flash photo galleries. It gives you an opportunity to present your photos in the most attractive and unique way and enhance your website functionality. That’s why Flash Gallery CMS websites are in great demand among artists and photographers, design studios and advertising agencies.

So, this blog post features 10 attractive and convenient Flash Gallery CMS designs that demonstrate excellent use of Flash technology to create beautiful photo galleries. All these Flash photo galleries are powered by the advanced innovative CMS for Flash provided by FlashMoto.
Enjoy the collection!

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Flash Gallery of Art or Photography

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable, just like the design of this stunning Flash photo gallery. The gallery easily and fancifully twists when you just move a mouse over the page. To open any image in big preview, just click on its thumbnail. Moreover, this flash photo gallery is very flexible: with no difficulties you can customize the number of rows and make it as long/short as you wish.

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Spherical Flash Photo Gallery

This gallery is probably the most powerful Flash photo gallery solution out there. This sphere-shaped gallery presents an extraordinary way of showing your media content and is easy customizable via convenient FlashMoto control panel. It also enables you to switch between two view modes: spherical and flat rectangular.

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Flash Gallery for Portfolio website

This Flash image gallery offers a quite original way of presenting bunch of images. Pyramid-shaped thumbnail structure impresses with the splendid animation effects and pleasant sound accompaniment. The extremely easy navigation leaves nothing to be desired: big image preview opens just in 1 click.

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Dynamic Image Gallery

Here is a compact and unobtrusive way to present your photos online. The table structure of thumbnails is the most habitual and convenient for us. A wide range of transition effects creates a lasting impression. All photos can be sorted according to the selected albums that are specified below the gallery. Well, as they say, the simplest things are the greatest

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Flash Gallery CMS for Artists and Photographers

This gallery design and smart navigation are the most elegant way to present your media content. The gallery starts with album thumbnails. By selecting any album, it opens the big preview of the first image.

The navigation at the bottom gives you quick access to the menus, navigate the projects and images. Moreover, you can provide a caption for each image via user-friendly FlashMoto CMS. When you are viewing the photos, it puts the main focus on the image and hides everything else.

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Flash Photo Gallery for Model Agency or Design Studio

Here is an interesting and stylish approach for presenting images. Have you noticed how beautifully the grayscaled image turns into a color image while being viewed? By the way, the dark background makes other colors to stand out and is a perfect choice for galleries of art and photography.

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Dynamic image gallery for interior design companies

Here is another creative approach to showcasing images online. The images thumbnails on the transparent red background hide right away when moving a mouse from it. There are no unnecessary options; everything is neat and extremely simple.

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Compact Flash image gallery

This Flash photo gallery blends well with the whole website design. The right gallery side features image thumbnails, while the other one – big image preview. The straightforward functionality makes the gallery very user-friendly. To keep a long story short, simplicity is the supreme excellence.

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Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery

Simple and neat, accurate and full-function… This dynamic image gallery is characterized by excellent quality and easy customization. Visitors can browse through the gallery sliding the mouse along the screen.

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Clear Style Flash Image Gallery

The distinctive feature of this flash image gallery is the round image thumbnails that move along an arc-shaped track while clicking on any of them. You must admit that it’s a quite original way of presenting images on a website.

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By the way, you don’t need to use any additional extensions and Flash components in order to have a professional Flash Photo gallery. Our Flash CMS templates has already had a built-in flash gallery component. You just need to upload photos and it’s in your pocket (or more exactly in your website ).