Flash Web Design

Curtis calls these exercises “deconstructions,” and it’s an apt term. All the finished pieces can be viewed on Curtis’s site (www.hillmancurtis.com/book). With his help, you reconstruct each Flash movie with no step overlooked. They range from type animation (Macromedia Shockzone) to his bandwidth-skinny (20K) navigational, an interactive media site created with action scripting, a streaming visual poem with MP3 audio and many other techniques. The spots are all aesthetically elegant, vibrant, and cutting-edge in terms of design and typography and are even a pleasure to work with.

The author is first and foremost a designer. The book demonstrates the importance of conceptualizing the clients’ needs and how to preplan and storyboard the projects. It documents the motivations behind even the smallest design decisions, making this book valuable as a teaching tool and not just a grab bag of hotshot how-tos. Each project takes time, but even beginners can re-create the Flash movies. The steps are clearly explained and illustrated with screen shots. The artwork, however, is not provided. To work along with the deconstructions, readers will have to create similar art, film, and sound files.

Those aware of Hillman Curtis’s work will also be familiar with that of the book’s designer, Todd Purgason of Juxt Interactive (juxtinteractive.com). The layout for Flash Web Design evokes the layered, motion-through-structure style of Purgason’s Web design (lundstromarch.com) and makes one wish the book also existed in movie format. In fact, Purgason’s methodology is presented in the last chapter, where he shows the benefits of using Freehand in conjunction with Flash. –Angelynn Grant

Topics covered: Step-by-step case studies re-create existing Flash projects that range in complexity. Projects include type animation, navigational screens, working with wireframe art, converting vectorized video, working with streaming MP3 audio, using action scripting for interactivity, and going from Freehand sketches to finished Flash movies.

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Market Like a Mind Reader

You don’t need to visit a psychic to find out which subscribers will be pleased to receive your next email.

You can find out yourself by segmenting your list. Sorting subscribers into segments based on various criteria means you can send them the emails you know they want – all without reading their minds.

Your subscribers will be impressed not only by your apparent ESP, but by the customized quality of your emails.

You can also segment by subscribers’ interests. For example, your car dealership might want to see which subscribers drive which brands. You may also want to send broadcasts about those brands to those specific customers.

Read on…

With the spread of broadband Internet access, online video clips are having a profound effect on how Internet users view information online.

Flash Encoded Videos (FLV format) is the Internet standard of videos, used by thousands of websites, news networks, YouTube, AtomFilms, Daily Motion, eBaum’s World, among many others. Scroll down for a list of streaming video websites.

We use Flash Video Encoder to ensure that optimized Flash video is the smallest size possible (for ease and speed of download), without compromising the original quality of the clip.

Flash Video Player is found in more browsers than any other player. Flash works on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Flash works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.

We can convert any DVD, AVI, or MOV file into FLV and publish as streaming video clip on your website.

See sample websites that we have embedded high quality Flash Videos:

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Contact us to add Streaming Flash Videos to your website!

Listing of streaming video websites:

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AOL Video – Watch music videos, news, movie trailers, and TV shows
All Player Stats – watch sports videos
All Things Science – Release your inner Einstein

AajKaTV – South Asian Video -
AtomFilms – Web Comedy Galore

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Blinkx – Over 7 million hours of video. Search it all
Brightcove – Find and watch the online video

Babelgum – TV Expierence, Internet substance
Blog tv – Broadcast your own TV Show
Break – Free videos
BooksVideos.tv – Watch the story behind the story

Bubble Comments – Share video comments with others
Bofunk – dishin the funk, without the junk
Bragster – Dare your friends and brag about it
Boatson.tv – Boat videos on Online.

Bing Video – Watch and search for videos

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Clevver – Action & comedy movie trailers and music videos

CNN Video - Watch news and breaking news videos at CNN.com
Crackle- Watch, create, and share video (formerly Grouper)
Channel 101 – Video entertainment
Current – Your World. View

Constant Comedy – The next stage for entertainment
Coffee Shorts – Independent short films
Cast TV – One Stop Watching
Clipta – video search

Chew.tv – A communication channel for a connected generation New

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Daily Motion - Share your videos

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Earth Cam - Where the world watches the world
eBaum’s World – Funny videos

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Funny or Die -Funny videws featuring comedians, celebrities, and you.
Funny Junk – The name says it all

Flixwagon – Life is a Journey.
Broadcast it Live
Fancast – What you can watch today
Feedky - Video videos through RSS
Funtouristattractions.com – Fun tourist attractions videos

FunnyFilth – More funny videos, less bs

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Green.tv – Video channel for environmental films
Gawkk.com – Discover new videos with friends

Gawker.tv – Unhealthily Obsessed with Video

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Heavy – Video community where you are the network
Helpful Video - Share your knowledge and skills

Hulu – Watch your favorite videos
History.com – The day history video & speeches

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Ivnet.tv – Global broadband TV
Inewsit – Community powered news
Intoxicated Videos – Best drunk videos on the web

Indy Mogul – Fun cheap filmmaking

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Joost – A new way of watching TV
Jistin.tv – Live video

Jeezem – Laugh hard live well - NEW

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knocka tv -”The People have Taken Over”

Kalam.TV -
the largest video portal in the Middle East

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Link TV - Television without borders

Live Leak – Refefining the media
Le Gourmet TV – Dedicated to Gourmet Food and the like

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Metacafe – Watch, upload, and search for videos

Mega Video – I’m watchin’ it
Motorsportmad.com – Every category of morotsport

My Yoga Online – Video Yoga Classes

Mefeedia.com – Video search and discover
Muzu TV – Bands and fans Broadcast Music TV on the web
Molv – Live video from mobile phones to the web

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Nasa TV – Watch live from NASA
NY Times Video - Video on demand from the New York Times
New Baby – Where moms learn, share, and create video

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Onion News Network - 24-hour television news
Overlay.tv – Watch it, click it, get it

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Pure Video - Watch and search for videos
Pixsy.com – Search for photos and videos
Peekvid - Watch videos
Public.tv – Watch public sector, professional training, and business videos

Poker Listing TV – Educational & fun poker videos

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Q-
Qik - Share live video from your mobile phone

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Revver – Create and share videos
Rocket boom – Daily internet culture

Recession TV – A site for the times
RipitTube – Rip it – share it – check it

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Sportal - Watch and search for sports audio and video

Searchforvideo.com - Video search
Spike TV – Premier online destination for men
South Park Studios – All episodes from television series
Snotr – The ultimate place for great videos

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Trooker – Find it, watch it, trook it
TV Land – Video clips of classic television and original series
TV Life – Watch Shows online free

Twango – Video sharing
TurnHereTravel.tv – A video for every destination
TuCristo.com – Dando Testimonio Vivo
Totlol – Video for kids

Truevo – Video Search
The Doctors Channel – Internet TV for Doctors
Trip Films – Travel inspired Videos

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Ustream.tv – Live, interactive broadcasting

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Voeh – Search, download and watch videos

Video Jug – Life explained. On Film. Upload/share your videos
Viral Videos - Watch the web’s most shared viral videos
Video.ca – Canadian video sharing community
Vimeo – Watch, upload, and search for videos

Video Bomb – Social bookmarking for video
Vsocial.com – Online video and social media tools
Video Clips Dump – Your daily entertainment
Video Surf – Video search engine

Video Bloom – Online video advertising and distribution solutions

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Weather.com – Blue box weather videos
Watchdoit.com – Watch and do it

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You Tube -Watch, upload, broadcast, and search for videos
Yahoo Video - Video search

Youku.com – #1 video sharing site for China

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Zoopy – Social media playground to share videos

The more people link to my website, the more important my site becomes!

SEO, otherwise known as search engine optimization is how search engines recognize your particular website. With millions of websites up and running on the Internet, securing a page ranking that puts you at the top of search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo can be a daunting task.

However, when you have built up enough articles and backlinks on your website that pertain to the main subject of your site, climbing to the top of the search engines will be the ultimate result.

The more incoming links point to your website, the more Internet creditability you will develop. In addition, building quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in search engine optimization.

There are several factors that determine the value of a backlink. Backlinks from authoritative sites on a given topic are highly valuable. The effect of 1 quality inbound link is far better than 10 irrelevant inbound links to your website. We stay away from link farms that link to hundred thousand of websites! Search engines such as Google recommend that webmasters request relevant links to their sites and avoid participating in link farms. Sites that participates in a link farm may have its search rankings penalized.

We will submit your article to a great number of highly page ranked article submission sites and top article directories as well as ezines. Your website’s page ranking will increase because of having hundreds or even thousands high reputable back links pointing to your site.

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Create value with persuasive, educational, and vivid copy. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Don’t let your business down with sloppy website copy writing. A well written call to action inspires people to purchase, subscribe, or register. Whatever you want your customers to do, well written copy writing for your website can be the key to their making the decision you want them to.

SEO copy writing that’s right for the search engines may be wrong for the reader. Let our writers create professional SEO geared content that is both keyword relevant and reads well. No sacrifices. Reader and search engine satisfaction guaranteed!

Keyword dense SEO articles are ideal if you want to present and market a business or online project. We strive to create content that is informative and contains your subject-specific keywords.

In creating SEO content for an online business, we will pay attention to details like the following:

• Our website SEO copy writers innovatively incorporate keyword relevancy within each article. The reading quality of the finished piece is never sacrificed.
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• Fresh and original web site content gives your business and your site the edge. Written pieces that cannot be found elsewhere on the web ensure your visitors’ interest.

Pay-per-click marketing is a highly efficient and trackable way of getting prospective customers to see your products or services. It involves laser-targeting search engine traffic while you only pay if the interested party actually clicks on your ad. This allows for any website to receive visitors that can then be converted into qualified leads or sales.

PPC campaign management is the ongoing process of optimizing your ad campaigns, launching new ones, and filtering out those that are not performing to your advantage. To achieve the best ROI possible, your campaigns will have to be constantly monitored and maintained.

Because you only pay for a valid click, you know that the prospect that clicked on your ad must be interested in what you have to offer. Of course, how interested is a matter of how targeted or broad your ad was, and also how your offer is presented on the landing page.

Launching a broad PPC campaign for an extended time period will support your long-term company branding efforts.

Contact us today to schedule a consultation regarding Internet Marketing for your web site!

Make Money Online with Affiliate Program Marketing

Find the best affiliate programs and make money online with affiliate marketing!

The concept of revenue sharing – paying commission for referred business – predates affiliate marketing and the Internet. Affiliate marketing has grown quickly since its inception. The e-commerce website became an integrated part of the overall business plan and in some cases grew to a bigger business than the existing offline business.

Who can join affiliate programs?

This could be anyone from a part-time Webmaster just starting out to a large public company. Everyone is welcome to become a member in any of the many affiliate programs.

What is the Best Shopping Cart Software?

• Payment Processing – Most shopping cart software offer credit card processing as well as PayPal, check or other methods of processing payments.
• Webpage Design – Some shopping cart software will help you build your webpages without requiring you to know HTML.
• Storefront Design – Store front incorporate shopping cart templates or other tools to help you designing your storefront.
• Inventory Control – Most programs will keep track of your inventory and generate reports.
• Shipping Cost Options – Nearly all software offer a shipping tool that calculates shipping costs for customers based on parameters that you set, even link up to common shipping companies like UPS and FedEx real time shipping cost calculator.
• Tax Calculation – Most shopping cart software can calculate taxes, a valuable tool, especially since many states are considering requiring that merchants collect taxes for online sales.
• Customer Management – Many shopping carts programs have features that will let customers view their previous purchases and will also recognize the customer when they come back for a return visit.
• Marketing – A shopping cart is useless if you don’t sell anything. Marketing help can be invaluable, some programs offer information on affiliate programs and help with merchandising. Many are able to create coupons, gift certificates or other incentives. In addition, they provide sales reports and most viewed products information.
• Security – Customers will not want to purchase online if they feel the website cannot protect their personal information. Shopping cart software will offer protection by encrypting information, processing credit cards through reputable processing services.