| Web Roundups: 7 Free Flash CMS |
A Flash CMS is a good option to deliver projects to your clients when they want to manage and change the content easly, without programming knowledge and avoiding to edit the flash files. Today, we show you the free available options which you should bear in mind before decide to go on Premium Products.
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| Freebie: E-Book Web Designer’s Success Guide |
The well known Kevin Airgid, released some time ago this awesome 81 pags e-book. This great document is intended specially for those who want to start their own freelance Web Design business. Along the book Kevin takes you through the journey to create, manage and grow your business.
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| Flash Freebie: ActionScript 3.0 Migration Cookbook |
We have noticed on the recent searches within The Tech Labs, one of the Top queries were on ActionScript 2.0. Therefore, if you are one of those still using the previous version of ActionScript, than this migration cookbook by Mike Chambers will be a great help.
This document will show how to achieve commons tasks either in ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 so you can check and learn the differences between both. This version is update to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
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| Giveaway – O’Reilly Books!!! |
We want to thank you for the great support you have been giving to The Tech Labs. We are now publishing articles on regular basis, and we are trying to implement new features to enable this community to grow.
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| Web Roundup: 21 Creative Flash Portfolios |
Flash portfolios are a great way to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Besides, as Internet have no boundaries, the geographical barriers are avoided, being your work accessible world wide.
Your Flash Portfolio should be one of your best works. Every single detail can count on whether a customer will contact you or not.
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| Giveaway: 5 licenses of Rainbow Live – XML Editor + CMS |
James McNess of Code and Visual has generously offered up 5 licenses worth $99 each for the Rainbow Live XML Editor + CMS!
In James’ own words “Rainbow Live provides most of the key functions of a lightweight CMS, without the overhead of complex server side scripts and SQL databases. Rainbow Live was specifically built for Flash based websites and components which typically use external XML data to provide their content”.
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| Freebie: lynda.com offers Free Access to Adobe Flash Catalyst Training |
The well known online training company lynda.com launched a complete set of free video tutorials on Flash Catalyst. As mentioned by Steve Johnson, in this “Flash Catalyst Beta Preview, Mordy Golding demonstrates a workflow that emphasizes the intuitive nature of the tool, and shows how to achieve results in a short time. Meant to bridge the gap between designers and developers, Flash Catalyst allows the designer to work with familiar applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, while automatically generating the necessary code in the background for the developer.”
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| Giveaway: 3 Licenses for FlippingBook PDF Publisher |
Our supporter Page-Flip.com is offering 3 licenses of FlippingBook PDF Publisher.
FlippingBook PDF Publisher is a nice desktop application you can use to create Flash flipping books from your pdf files. The usage is very simple, and the application is intuitive, so it will be easy for the user to create his own flipping books in minutes.
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| New RSS Feed, New Contributors, New Tutorials, New Features, Stats and Figures |
It’s time to check what we did, what we are doing, and what we expect to do. A small report about The Tech Labs, which will help you to understand better how it will be the future in this community.
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| The Tech Labs at Adobe Feeds |
The Tech Labs are now available through the Adobe Feeds aggregator. If it is the first time you are reading about The Tech Labs, then let us make a small introduction to you. The Tech Labs is a blog/tutorial site for web designers and developers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites or desktop applications. We cover Air, Flash and Flex.
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