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Flash Sites Need Spiderable Content

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Imagine this, you’re a Web Designer or Graphic Designer straight out of college, you’ve bought yourself a domain (with your name in it of course) and some hosting. You’ve been taught quite a bit of Adobe Flash and put together a gorgeous portfolio site. You search yourself on Google a few weeks later, your page […]

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Why Won’t My FLV’s Display?

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

This is possibly the hardest problem to troubleshoot, because without knowing the reason why it’s not working, you can’t really pin-point a solution, troubleshoot or explain your problem on a web forum. So tell me why:

Why won’t my Flash Player load my FLV online?
Here’s what you probably did:

You created an new SWF file
You inserted […]

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Flash People Need To Know This

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

As you may or may not know, because it is likely you do all your design on a Macintosh computer, Microsoft has rolled out an update that seriously cripples how Adobe Flash works in updated Internet Explorer versions. Users with Internet Explorer 7 or an updated version of Internet Explorer 6 need to be prompted […]

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