Mike Chambers announced on his blog the upcoming FlashCamp San Francisco event, that will take place on the April 16th. The event if free of charge and you’ll find out the latest insights on Flash Player 10.1 and Flash Professional CS5.

FlashCamp San Francisco is a free one night event hosted by Adobe covering everything you need to know about about the latest Flash Platform tools and technologies, including Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Flash CS5, Adobe Flash Builder 4 and mobile design and development.

Check out the event details here.

You’ve definitely checked out Digicrafts’ PhotoFlip Flash component at least once. Since it was so successful, a follow up was in order. So, he has developed PhotoFlip Video, that includes an awesome cover-flow video playlist. Being built-in with YouTube playlist builder, you can easily create your own video playlist.

The best thing about this Flash component is that you can create a personalized video player for your brand as the file has a customizable video playback interface. Watch this short tutorial to see how you can change the player skin for the PhotoFlip Video file.

To find out more about this file’s features click here. Also, do check out Digicrafts‘ portfolio for other great files.

FITC is giving away a free ticket to the FITC Toronto event.  To get a chance to win the ticket, you just have to join the awesome FITC community, if you haven’t already, until Friday 5pm EST.

In case you don’t get lucky, you can always take advantage of the ticket discount, which you can get by entering the “fuelyourflash” discount code here. Good luck!

February was the month of beautiful Flash files. We managed to feature three of our most creative Flash templates so far, along with 3D carousels, menus and slideshows.

This was the month when we chose to promote Flash components for a “fresh start” – the launch or the redesign of your website. We also made a habit out of featuring some of our best Flash developers that have put a lot of effort and passion into their work.  Congrats to everyone of you!

This is quite a nice sellection, so enjoy! Click on the images to find out more about the author or the file.

Featured Authors

Featured Files

Mark Doherty, Flash Platform Evangelist in Mobile and Devices, answered the questions of  FFDmag readers on the subject of FP 10.1.

Asked by a reader what the future of FP 10.1 is on all mobile platforms, Mark said:

We are really excited about delivering Flash Player 10.1 to mobile and device platforms. Today we are working with all the major device manufacturers, chipset vendors and content providers to deliver Flash Player 10.1. In all we have announced that Flash Player 10.1 will come to Android, Palm, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and LiMo devices. The first devices will get Flash Player support in the first half of 2010.

Read the other interesting Q&A’s in this month’s issue of FFDmag (page 92).

Hi everybody! We have a proposal for all Flash lovers out there, that can help you promote your website for free. We’re always eager to see how you use our Flash components, so if you’re excited about the file you purchased and your website’s new look,  why not brag about it?

We’d like to know more about your business and see how our components helped you promote your products. Your website might just be included in our future issues of our newsletter. In addition, Steven or I will write a special Flash Catwalk article on our www.flashxml.com blog presenting it. So don’t be shy and drop us a comment with your link. We’re looking forward to seeing your examples.

Cheers!

While browsing the cool new FWA website, I found some interesting ecommerce websites. I especially focused on the Flash shopping carts and I found some pretty inspiring examples  I think you should check out.

You bump into them all the time when purchasing online and there are some complicated shopping carts that give you a hard time. A shopping cart should be simple and self-explanatory when it comes to the obvious steps to purchase an item. The  Flash examples I’ve chosen to showcase today are not only extremely creative, but also user friendly.

Converse

In my opinion, this Flash shopping cart does the trick. You can READ MORE »

The key to any success is good communication. This also applies to Flash developers, even though many of you believe that great components equals great sales. Obviously, the quality of a Flash component matters, but knowing who your customers are, developing according to their needs, offering technical support and having the right attitude towards criticism are the main things that make a customer happy. And what happens if a customer is happy? He will come back for more.

Communicating with (potential) customers is a must in every business, even though dealing with them is not always easy. But what you have to keep in mind is that not all are Clients From Hell. After all, they’re the ones putting the bread on your table. Most importantly, you are given the chance to do something you’re passionate about and create a Flash component for a client that is going to enjoy using it.

So here a few suggestions on how to improve your communication skills with regards to (potential) customers. READ MORE »

If you’re planning on launching a website and want to announce it and, in the same time, work on putting all the elements together, there’s a simple solution. An under construction Flash template can come in handy when dealing with redesigns or websites that will soon be launched.

This way you can give your visitors a heads up regarding the launching date of the website, while working on it. The following is a showcase of the coming soon Flash templates that you can use specifically for this purpose.

Coming Soon Countdown Website

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It’s been a while since we presented our last Flash Catwalk but lately examples have started to pile up. The example I chose to showcase today is a website where the beautiful Great White Template was used.

The Rotunda is an elegant banquet facility in south eastern Wisconsin. Eric chose Jjletho’s Flash template to present this historic place using the cool features of the template while taking advantage of the attractive price.

I purchased the Great White Template and I have to say this is a fantastic template. I’ve tried many others for much  more $$$, and this by far is the best I’ve seen.

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