Archive for July, 2007
July 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in General, Web Design
I’m very excited, there will be a lot of change in the Front End department where I worked as a project manager for the last 5 month.
My direct superior, Marco, who is heading the department, leaves to another job… My director announced my last weekend that I will be taking his places as the head [...]
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July 28th, 2007 at 9:16 am by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in ActionScript3, Adobe, Flash, Flex, Tutorials, Web Design
New article in Flash Developer Center: The reflect Class from Ben Pritchard
[...]This tutorial steps you through the creation of the Reflect class, a custom ActionScript 3.0 class that you can apply to reflections on movie clips [...].
The Reflect class is intended for any developer or designer who would like to achieve an effect that gives [...]
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July 27th, 2007 at 4:13 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Google, Intelligence, Usability
Via Technology review,
[...]After 30 years, it’s finally reached a point where it can be brought into the world[...]
A search engine that would finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related Web pages, I’m dreaming about it, they said they nearly achieve it!
We will have to wait until September [...]
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July 26th, 2007 at 11:42 am by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Flash Lite, J2ME, Mobile
Just read via Balagopal NKnair’s blog the opening of the Nokia Beta Labs.
The latest beta app is a Mobile Server to access your mobile directly via Internet:
Mobile Web Server lets you name your device and make it accessible in the Internet with a browser. The software includes several applications from content creation to remote usage, [...]
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July 25th, 2007 at 9:40 am by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Adobe, Experiment, Usability, Web Design
As I use more and more the SWFObject, I took some time to create a Dreamweaver extension that insert the SWFObject Script and the Div with most of the options I ever need with it.
I just tested it on DW CS3, and it worked well as long as you are in design or split [...]
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July 19th, 2007 at 2:16 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Experiment, Google, Marketing, Web Design
Two days ago I published my attempt to build a tool helping me to analyze the positioning of a website in function of the keywords used.
Now this SEO tool can do much more:
Analyze the results from Google.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com
Analyze up to 4 website positioning in the same time
Analyze an array of keywords separated [...]
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July 17th, 2007 at 12:09 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Experiment, Google, Marketing, Web Design
More and more web designer make early work for integrating the SEO techniques to their design (files name, title, link and image attributes…). But unfortunately we often have to face a website already existing. In my point of view the number one priority is to know who are the most important competitors (in terms of [...]
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July 16th, 2007 at 7:20 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in ActionScript3, Adobe, Flash, RIA, Web Design
A new ActionScript 3.0 tutorial is just out, thanks to the awful weather we got here in Geneva…
This tutorial is about interaction between ActionScript and JavaScript. Calling functions from both languages is really easy since Flash8 and it did not change with Flash CS3. In this tutorial we call function from AS to JS and [...]
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July 10th, 2007 at 10:23 am by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in ActionScript3, Adobe, Flash, Tutorials, Videos
Finally, I found the time to make a new video tutorial about AS3:
How to send and receive values to/from a database with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0. Using a server sided script (in this example php).
Basically it will do simply what you could do so hardly with AJAX: asynchronous request.
I used Captivate this time and [...]
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July 9th, 2007 at 7:53 pm by Ahmet Gyger
Posted in Adobe, Flash, Google, Point of View, Web Design
I was reading the post from Google Webmaster Central (link via FlashEnabled), about the best uses of Flash.
Someone (Jason) commented that the was to use JavaScript (SWFObject) to make the Div replacement, another one warned him about the danger as being considered as cloaking by the Google Bot.
Personally I used this technique in most of [...]
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