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This WYSIWYG application was made, in order to get a fast impression of the available CVI effects and their illustration qualities. CVI equals to "Canvas Vml Image effects". The CVI libraries requires no plugin or extension. The CVI libraries uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean and they work in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, IE6+ and Safari. On older browsers, they will degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing.

packed.it is a Web 2.0 on-line service capable of optimizing and improving web navigation for everyone. It's simple, fast and easy to customise. packed.it is the accessible answer to the Web 2.0, It is compatible with most browsers and in line with best practice in terms of accessibility and standards.

ServiceCapture runs on your pc and captures all HTTP traffic sent from your browser or IDE. It is designed to help Rich Internet Application(RIA) developers in the debugging, analysis, and testing of their applications.

SWX is the native data format for Flash. Data is stored as SWF bytecode (you can't get more native than that on the Flash Platform) that is interpreted by the Flash Player. The SWX format is a subset of the SWF format (just like JSON is a subset of JavaScript).

Designing for Flex and AIR in Fireworks CS3

OpenEXR is the advanced floating point image format created at Industrial Light and Magic and the best format to use when working with 32-bit HDR imagery in Photoshop and After Effects. However, Adobe's support for the format is minimal - only with ProEXR can digital artists finally access all the power available in OpenEXR.

We have collected more then 200 links related to typography but there are a lot more quality resources out there so we apologize to everyone who should be here on this list and aren't. We encourage you to search for additional resources on every website you visit below.

Cornershots is a collection of urban imagery (aka photoblog) highlighting New York City and its surroundings. The goal of the site is to reinterpret the way we normally look (or overlook) cityscapes in our own neighborhoods. All photographs are taken by Jimmie Yoo (myself).

A new URL scheme, "data", is defined. It allows inclusion of small data items as "immediate" data, as if it had been included externally.

This page demonstrates different uses of the technique described in the article Transparent custom corners and borders, version 2. Please read that article for more info on how this technique works. Should you want to link to this, please link to the related article instead of to this demo page. Thanks!

Last tutorial, I showed you how to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop. This tutorial I will show you how to slice up the menu design (step by step) and put them together with CSS. Most of you probably know how to code a horizontal or vertical CSS list menu. Now let’s take it to the next level — code an advanced (un-typical) list menu utilizing the CSS position property.

Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques even the father of internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with her Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently. Actually, there are a lot of methods and techniques to create rounded corners with Cascading Stylesheets. Some are quite simple just need pure CSS, and a part of them need 2 to 4 background corner images and Javascript. So i select some quality and usable rounded corners with CSS techniques for you to have the best choices.

Welcome to ColorBlender – your free online tool for color matching and palette design!

You can use this application to examine the structure of a database, create a new database or open an existing one, execute any type of SQL statement, etc.

A web server handles HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests sent to it by web browsers. When you type in a URL —http://www.digital-web.com, for example—your computer sends out a request to look up the servers needed to handle requests and send responses back quickly. The technique for determining how to route requests to the cluster of web servers efficiently is called load balancing.

DOMtab is a JavaScript that turns a list of links connected to content sections into a tab interface. The script removes any "back to top" links in the section and automatically hides all but the first one when the page is loaded. You can use as many tabbed menus on the page as you want to.

The Akamai Media Framework is a valuable resource for the rapid development of video player applications using the Adobe Flash video format. The framework is a code library which leverages best practices and open technologies to simplify the task of creating Flash video player applications for streaming and progressive download of content created in Adobe Flash compatible video, including Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. With a combination of the Framework, deployment techniques such as Content Management through Stream OS, and the Akamai delivery network, you can quickly implement a world-class solution for delivering Flash video content and provide audiences with a consistent, high-quality experience.

BarCamp London 2 is coming up next weekend and having been hard at work on all my paying projects I’ve hardly had any time to work on other stuff. This meant that I didn’t really have anything to show and tell which is a bit crap. I thought this would be a good excuse to work on something that I’ve been threatening to do for a while: a generic microformats parser for JavaScript. Yes, there are a few things about but they all tend to be tied to a single format and I wanted to build a framework that would allow any microformat to be defined using a JSON-like definition so it could be used as new formats emerge.

Sometimes, when we are building websites and web applications, we need a percentage bar / progress bar to show the progress of a specific task. However, it is very difficult to find a working and easy solution without using Flash. Therefore WebAppers have created a simple Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App. Bare Naked App taught us how to display Percentage Bar with 2 images only by using CSS. And then I used a little bit of Javascript to make it more interactive. You can use it anywhere you can think of. Use your Imagination, I am sure you will find it useful somewhere.

When the user downloads the web page, Open Flash Chart requests the chart data from the server. The server knows who the user is so it can generate a chart for that particular user showing up to the minute data.

You can achieve surprisingly cool results using the Transform Again feature in Illustrator starting from a simple shape. As you all know simplicity is my motto. Today I try turn this into practice again. So sit tight for another step-by-step tutorial using this simple but oh so powerful feature.

There are two types of length units: relative and absolute. Relative length units specify a length relative to another length property. Style sheets that use relative units will more easily scale from one medium to another (e.g., from a computer display to a laser printer)

It’s really a lot easier than you would expect. This tutorial was requested by many of my readers after I posted this Free set of 35 Abstract Illustrator Brushes. The possibilities are endless as far as brush making goes in illustrator, but I wanted to get you started in the right direction and let you take it from here.

Whether you want to turn your Adobe Flex or Flash files into professional Windows desktop applications, or you want to create the coolest Symbian Smartphone application, or create the most catchy Pocket PC program using the power and expressiveness of the Flash platform .... Janus provides the functionality and reliability combined with unbeaten performance.

Learn how to master smooth text appearances and animation using Offset and Ramp Up settings in After Effects.

So we brought you some great CSS tips to help with accessibility over the weekend, and we discussed how layout helps users get into your page with our look at stumblers and Diggers habits, now its time to introduce the layouts…

Hi welcome to Flashmatics Library where I add snippets and applications as and when I create them. Everything is completely FREE so enjoy!! If you want something in particular let me know and I will keep that in mind when I add more stuff to my library.

Flashr is an ActionScript 2 wrapper for the Flickr API by Kelvin Luck. It makes it easy to develop Flash applications to display and interact with photos on flickr.com. You do not need to worry about the XML that flickr returns, you deal in sensible objects like Photos, Photosets and Persons.

These are free XHTML / CSS website templates available to use without any limitations. They can be used on a noncommercial site aswell as on a commercial one. Keeping a small credit link in the footer is not obligatory but shows your appreciation and support. All templates are hand coded and lightweight (under 60KB) which ensures fast loading. They can be easily used as a standalone templates or in combination with sNews to create a fully dynamic site.

CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.

This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day

Rich Media Project believes in Flash technology. That's why all of our team is committed to develop advanced Flash tools that let you create Rich Media contents with a lot of extended features. Our products are user-friendly, safe and labelled Macromedia Approved Extension. They will help you saving time, obtaining a competitive advantage with your site or presentations and positioning you or your company as a leader in your field.

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.

This site traces bitmap images, turning them into beautiful vector art. Just upload your image and we will convert it for you.

This section includes tutorials on how to acquire, interpret and process digital photographs.  New digital photography tutorials will be added, so please visit again.

The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics.

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.

Shinybinary is the online art and design portfolio for Nik Ainley.

In the past, memory leaks haven't posed huge problems for Web developers. Pages were kept relatively simple and navigation between different locations within a site was a great way to clean up any loose memory. If there was a leak, it was most likely small enough to go unnoticed. New Web applications live up to higher standards. A page might run for hours without being navigated and retrieve updated information dynamically through Web services. Language features are pushed to the breaking point by combining complex event schemes, object-oriented JScript, and closures to produce entire applications. With these and other changes, certain memory leak patterns are becoming more prominent, especially those previously hidden by navigation. The good news is that memory leak patterns can be easily spotted if you know what to look for. Most of the troublesome patterns you might face have known workarounds requiring only a small amount of extra work on your behalf. While some pages might still fall prey to small memory leaks, the most noticeable ones can be easily removed.

Great information about lists, menus and nav with css. Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list.

SoundManager 2 is a Javascript Sound API which talks to Flash, effectively mapping most of Flash 8's native sound capabilities to Javascript.

This single HTML/CSS file will give you the ability to have a static header, side menu, footer, with a dynamic area in the centre for content. This is something that I was told could not be done without use of JavaScript. With the help of a lot of research and the mIRC chatroom #CSS I have finally figured it out. For all you interface programmers out there that want a single 100% use of screen space no mater how its resized please view the source and help yourself to the CSS and HTML code

Create high quality panoramic images! PTGui is panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX. Originally developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

PHP Expert Editor is an easy-to-use IDE for Windows with UTF-8 support. This editor supports Perl, Python, Java Script and other languages too. This Editor specially designed for PHP-masters and has a nice features for beginners and professional programmers. PHP Expert Editor has internal HTTP-server and Debugger to run, test and debug PHP scripts (you can use any external HTTP-server also). The PHP Syntax Check, internal browser, Code Explorer, File Explorer, FTP client with SFTP support, Project Explorer, Code Templates, customizable code highlighting, quick navigation in code, and much more.

One very powerful, and useful, feature of Flex is the ability to filter data inside the Flex application itself. One such example would be if you were displaying a datagrid that contained many rows of data and wanted to give your users the ability to filter the data based on certain criteria.

On the heels of releasing version 5 of TweenLite and TweenFilterLite and investing a lot of time into optimizing performance, I figured I'd take a few minutes to throw together a tool that could demonstrate and quantify any speed differences among a few of the tweening engines out there. Now before you go writing nasty comments about the fact that I didn't include your favorite one, I KNOW! I just didn't have time to download them all, learn the syntax, and include them. Instead, my goal was to post the tool and let the Flash community add to it if they so desire. It should be pretty simple actually. Dowload the source file here: AS2 or AS3. No trickery involved; the same code drives everything except for the tweens themselves. Basically it tweens white "stars" from the center outward at random angles, sizes, and with random delays. When a star's tween ends, it just repositions itself at the center and starts again. You can play with the number of stars and the duration of the tweens to see how the tweening engines handle various types of loads.

The reason I created this brush set is so that (hopefully) it will make it easier for you to try and understand swoosh making and get inspired to set up your own unique brushes to produce some beautiful swooshes and curls on your own. Practice makes perfect in most cases, but these should help you along your way.