December 2007
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WriteMaps Sitemap Application
This morning I stumbled upon a pretty useful online app: WriteMaps.
WriteMaps is a free web-based tool that allows you to create, edit and share sitemaps online. It looks and feels a lot like the genealogy site Geni - which makes a lot of sense since a sitemap is very similar to a family tree (pages having parents, grandparents, siblings, etc.).
All you have to do is sit down and play with it...
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9-Slice Scaling in Flash
One of the humbling things about working primarily in Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash is that I’ve been using these applications for years and I’m still stumbling across new features. My latest discovery is Flash 8’s 9-slice scaling.
Down at the bottom of the advanced options of the Symbol Properties window is a checkbox “Enable guides for 9-slice scaling.” When enabled, a set of guides...
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Papervision3D
Up until this year actual 3D in Flash has been nonexistent. If you wanted to achieve some sort of faux 3D effect you’d more than likely have to rely on importing an image sequence or vector animation from some third party application – so needless to say, I was really excited to learn about Papervision3D.
Papervision3D is an open source realtime 3D engine for Flash. Basically, it allows you to...