Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

Using sIFR to Control Fonts

Posted October 10th, 2008 by Antonio Wells in Category: CSS, Flash, Web Design with No Comments »

I watched Chris Coyiers’ screencast today on how to use sIFR to control fonts on the web. He followed a tutorial by Design Intellection to show how to incorporate it into your website.

The first time I saw this technique in use was on Teehan+Lax design agency website. Seems sIFR was been around a while and could be really cool for displaying whatever font you want in a website provided the user can display Flash and JavaScript.

I will be experimenting with this and post an article on it!

Charging Extra for Flash Source Code Files

Posted October 1st, 2008 by Antonio Wells in Category: Flash, Rants, Web Design with 3 Comments »

To Charge or Not to Charge… that is the question???

This was a topic recently put on my plate by a problematic client. There is a huge debate amongst Flash Designers/Developers to charge extra for the release of the Flash .FLA source code file.

A little background for non-flash designers…

To build a website or application in Flash, you work from a source file .FLA then output a complied .SWF file. The source file contains all your assets such as images, components, Actionscript, animations, etc. If the client wanted to take the files and go elsewhere for future development or maintenance, they would require the source files.

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