Search Engine Optimization
Based in the Ottawa area, we help our clients with their computer and Internet needs. Our specialty is modifying our client's website content to ensure that search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing give it a high ranking. In addition, we offer assistance in the design of web stores to simplify the shopping experience and enhance revenue.
While search engine optimization (SEO) is our specialty our clients often have other computer related needs. Our expertise allows us to help our clients in a variety of ways. We also offer webmaster services, computer network services, data recovery and other computer services.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Flash Development for Free
Until recently I thought that you needed to have Flash CS4 or an earlier version to make flash files. There are exceptions of course. For example, you can upload a video file to youtube to create a flash movie.
If you want to make flash files without Adobe Flash you could use Adobe Flex but neither of these are free. Fortunately Adobe provides a free Flex SDK (software development kit) that you can use to generate flash from Actionscript. If you have nightmares about dos prompts then this method probably is not for you. For more information of Free Flash click here.
Adobe is also nice enough to let you use Flash CS4 free for a month and it is easy to see why CS4 is so popular. It is fast, fairly simple and, of course, because the output is Flash the resulting code works on all browsers provided they have a suitable flash player. (The flash player which uses a web browser is available free.)
Flash is almost univesrally supported with one major exception. Flash requires a fair bit of computing power and as a result cellphones don't typically support it. That will be changing soon though according to Wired Another surprising omission is the new iPad from Apple. The iPad would make an ideal system for video etc. however flash is so ubiquitous that right now it won't play a vast majority of videos available on the Internet. As far as I can tell, the iPad is basically an overgrown iPod touch (iPhone minus the phone ). I have a netbook with an Atom processor that is the size of an iPad costs less then half and it plays flash but I digress.
In any case I hope to have some examples of flash available soon. If you have a request for some flash please let me know and I will see what I can do...
If you want to make flash files without Adobe Flash you could use Adobe Flex but neither of these are free. Fortunately Adobe provides a free Flex SDK (software development kit) that you can use to generate flash from Actionscript. If you have nightmares about dos prompts then this method probably is not for you. For more information of Free Flash click here.
Adobe is also nice enough to let you use Flash CS4 free for a month and it is easy to see why CS4 is so popular. It is fast, fairly simple and, of course, because the output is Flash the resulting code works on all browsers provided they have a suitable flash player. (The flash player which uses a web browser is available free.)
Flash is almost univesrally supported with one major exception. Flash requires a fair bit of computing power and as a result cellphones don't typically support it. That will be changing soon though according to Wired Another surprising omission is the new iPad from Apple. The iPad would make an ideal system for video etc. however flash is so ubiquitous that right now it won't play a vast majority of videos available on the Internet. As far as I can tell, the iPad is basically an overgrown iPod touch (iPhone minus the phone ). I have a netbook with an Atom processor that is the size of an iPad costs less then half and it plays flash but I digress.
In any case I hope to have some examples of flash available soon. If you have a request for some flash please let me know and I will see what I can do...
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