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Flash Technology in Photo Gallery Websites

Ferman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:15:45 +0000

It is indisputable that Flash helps to keep an engaging website content with its interesting and stylish approaches for multimedia presentation. For professional photographs, art designs, an architectural model or design studio portfolio, graphic arts, paintings or some other special exhibits, Flash technology is a perfect way to go online. One of its evident advantages is the ability to create splendid slideshows and interactive Flash interfaces for photo galleries. Flash is often the excellent solution to make the most attractive presentation and enhance site’s functionality. Using this powerful technology, you are capable to create smart navigations, a wide range of transition effects for a lasting impression, various unique gallery styles, menus, and much more. Flash utilizes advanced animations and special effects to turn your photo gallery website into an experience that your visitors won’t soon forget. So if you are looking for a design that will really intrigue and engage the audience, Flash is the solution you need.

Let’s take, for instance, the Flash Photo Gallery that is basically an easy and powerful tool for setting up and running a Flash site with an integrated photo gallery section. It is by far the most prominent solution to develop impressive layout and extensive usability through a convenient admin panel that controls an image posting process. So we can see that Flash Gallery-powered websites are currently extremely popular for image-oriented web projects. And if you desire to be the proud owner of a spectacular Flash Photo Gallery, TemplateMonster can assist to quickly develop an awesome online presentation, photo gallery or slideshow for presenting your ideas in a best way. Its photo gallery designs have a stylish Flash-powered photo gallery front end and handy tools combined with ease of installation and customization on the back end.

With flexible image management, the gallery in these templates can be edited via the convenient admin panel (which is included into Flash Photo Galleries as an ordinary .SWF file), plus the content of a website can also be edited using the XML file. With any of TemplateMonster’s Flash photo galleries, site owners have a bunch of neat tools to add comments to the images, set preview details (width, height, spacing etc.), or manage the images online (crop tool, flip, rotate and resize). Basically, the straightforward functionality makes their gallery way more user-friendly.

But the most interesting part goes here – starting September 20th 2010 until September 30th 2010 the company offers a new promo for this category of templates. During only 10 days the Flash Photo Galleries are exclusively available at a huge 40% discount. So make it quick to browse those Flash photo gallery templates to pick the one for your project. Get yourself a fancy online image gallery and you’ll be the envy of everyone!

15 Free Dynamic Flash XML Photo Galleries

Ferman — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000

Thanks to internet and resources available that you don’t have to develop anything from scratch. Just search, pick up the best and start working on it. Same is the case with photo galleries there are lots of dynamic Flash XML photo galleries for free. In this web roundup i tried to pick some of the best free Flash photo galleries on the Internet.

Almost all types of animation effects are in these 15 free dynamic Flash XML photo galleries.

1. Free Flash and XML Slideshow Photo Gallery

This is totally free Dynamic Flash Slideshow Photo Gallery. You can easily add, edit or delete images and thumbnails by editing an xml file in Notepad. Creating your own Flash slideshow photo gallery has never been easier!

2. FlashFlickr PhotoGallery

A photogallery made in Flex2/AS3 using Flickr API. This application let users to browse your flickr pictures, see your sets, tags and notes.

3. PhotoDiary 1.0

PhotoDiary 1.0 is a web application developed by Webgriffe which lets you to easily publish a brand new photo blog on the web.

4. Flash Page Flip Photo Gallery template for Picasa

This template is based on the free version of the FlashPageFlip flash engine on www.flashpageflip.com.

5. FlashMo Stack Photo Gallery

Stack Gallery is a flash xml photo gallery that supports HTML CSS in photo description textfield. It can be integrated with any flash template in actionscript 3.

6. WS-Slideshow

A free flash slideshow gallery with vertial thumbnails slider.

7. FlashMo Circle Gallery

Circular thumbnail XML gallery with a mouse wheel scroller using Flash CS3 ActionScript 3.

8. dfGallery 1.0

dfGallery is one of the coolest Galleries currently on the Web.

9. 3D Grip Photo Gallery

3D Grid – Flash Photo Gallery using Papervision3D and XML.

10. SimpleViewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. It allows you to display your images on any web page in a professional, intuitive and simple way.

11. Tony Photo Album

Tony photo album is elegant and free flash photo gallery.

12. Free Flash Photo Album

Dynamic Picture loading, easy to install and easy to change content. Ability to show up to 1200 images.

13. AutoViewer

AutoViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.

14. TiltViewer

TiltViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. TiltViewer is designed to display a sequence of images in tilt view.

15. Polaroid Gallery v.1.01

The script loads images and image titles dynamically from an external xml file or a flickr RSS feed.

Win Three SlideshowBox Premium HTML Licenses

Ferman — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:21:45 +0000

Smartketer, the software company who created JumpeyeComponents and SnackTools software suites, is giving away three SlideshowBox Premium HTML licenses, each worth $99.

SlideshowBox is an easy to use application that enables you to create amazing Flash and HTML (JavaScript) photo slideshow galleries. It includes HTML photo slideshows and a Flash component that’s supported by all Adobe Flash CS versions. The HTML slideshows are available as embeddable SWF objects (they require Flash Player 9+) and some of them as pure JavaScript slideshows (iPhone/iPad friendly).

See what you can do with Slideshow Box here: Flash slideshow template examples and below are the some screenshots.

Why would you need SlideshowBox?

- you can create beautiful photo galleries with just a few mouse clicks
- no coding needed
- 24 fully customizable slideshows
- 5 full JavaScript slideshows
- FREE for non-commercial use

How to win?

Promote this article on Twitter or Facebook and then tell us how would you use SlideshowBox by leaving a comment to this article. The contest ends on July 13 and the winners will be chosen randomly. Do use your proper email while commenting so we can contact you.

Good luck to everyone!

Update: Contest is Ended Click Here for details.