http://freshwebtrends.com Serving up the freshest, most intersting web development ideas and trends Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:22:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Adobe Flash CS3 and CS4 comes bundled with a "blendMode" class which one can use in his everyday coding to achieve the general "overlay", "multiply" or "lighten" effects on images as part of an image gallery or just messing around.  What I present here is a simple custom class that ... http://freshwebtrends.com/photoshop-layer-modes-with-custom-as3/18/ It was not until recently that I truly realized how important it is for developers working with flash to check the user's flash player version before delivering their flash content.  With Adobe's not-so-recent release of AS3 which only runs on flash player 9 or greater and many people (especially in ... http://freshwebtrends.com/why-you-must-check-users-flash-player-version/15/ For all of you who ever wanted to display Google Analytics reports on your site without much hassle, I may have a solution for you. Laid out below is a set of simple instructions as well as fla's and swf's which I developed that you can use to show your Google ... http://freshwebtrends.com/show-off-your-google-analytics-on-your-site/13/ Take a look below at a set of RSS icons I created for free public use for my fellow web designers/developers. You can download a zip file containing an EPS version of the artwork as well as a high resolution jpg. Click here to look at a low-res version of ... http://freshwebtrends.com/free-set-of-vector-rss-icons/12/ 1. Using Divs to hide and show info as well as showing warnings. When showing large amounts of data alongside supporting text, it is in your best interest to use div tags to hide and display the information. This practice makes it easier for the user to quickly scroll through the ... http://freshwebtrends.com/5-useful-web-20-web-development-techniques/11/ First thing first, I don't think that Adobe AIR will totally replace the usage of the browser, but I do believe that as the next couple years past, more and more websites, web applications, and web widgets will be built as browser and AIR based or just AIR based. That said, ... http://freshwebtrends.com/bye-bye-browsers-hello-adobe-air/6/ Requirements: PHP, Flash, and a database like MySQL One of the more challenging tasks of developing rich content on the web that utilizes a flash fr-font-end and a database back-end is getting the two to talk to each other in an easy and fast way. If you ever tried doing this ... http://freshwebtrends.com/amfphp-a-must-have-for-any-flash-developer/5/ Below I have listed a series of 10 sites that I think are essential for for any successful flash developer and a great resource for just about anything to do with flash. These are not put in any particular order because every site has something different to add. If I ... http://freshwebtrends.com/5-essential-sites-for-any-flash-developer/4/ Being a web developer who has worked with flash since the very beginning, I could see how flash has changed throughout its maturity. In the beginning one had a limited set of tools for simple onion skin animation without much control or any scripting support. Then as the program matured, ... http://freshwebtrends.com/the-metamorphosis-and-eventual-rebirth-of-adobe-flash/3/