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5 Common SEO Web Design Mistakes

November 16th, 2009

There are some fairly simple design and coding errors that adversely affect search engine optimaztion that we still see fairly often.

Ribbit and making phone calls from Flash

March 6th, 2009

For those of you who are not familiar with Go to and Learn, it’s a free video tutorial site offering how-to’s for Flash developers and designers. Recently I stumbled upon this video tutorial on Ribbit.
Ribbit is an API that allows you to send and receive phone calls directly from a Flash application. In addition, it [...]

Loading a SWF With Sound in ActionScript 3

February 17th, 2009

Recently I ran into a problem when loading external swf files with sound. Here is a snippet of ActionScript 3 code that loads in a swf.

swfAnimation.load(new URLRequest(filename));

Oddly after unloading a swf with sound the sound stream continued to play. So if you loaded in a second swf you would have two sound streams [...]

Customize your own Obama logo

July 30th, 2008

While researching Flash techniques, one of us in the interactive department stumbled upon a site that lets you add a photo of your choosing to the center of Barack Obama’s campaign logo. Your upload goes virtually unmoderated, and will appear in a Flickr photostream shortly thereafter. While it doesn’t really serve any purpose whatsoever besides [...]

May I have your attention please?

July 2nd, 2008

Recently, we received an award for the most “attention-getting” ad in a Readex Research ad perception study of the publication Homeland Security Today. The ad was for Harris RF Communications: our Talk as One, Work as One campaign. For those of you not familiar with Harris, they are an international communications and information technology company [...]