When creating animations using Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects or even Flash, you need to use keyframes. These are the key frames where changes to an object are set, such as a ball being on the left of the screen and ending on the right. To do this, you would use 2 keyframes for the beginning and the end of the animation, with different values for the x (horizontal) position and the animation would happen as the timeline moves between the 2 values.
‘Flash’ Archives
Adobe Plan to Scrap iPhone Development
There has been a storm brewing between Apple and Adobe over the Flash platform and the lack of support for it on the Apple mobile devices. The issue is that Apple see Flash as a CPU hog that drains the battery of iPhones/iPod Touch/iPads.
Testing Web Pages for the iPhone
I have come across a couple of iPhone browser simulators that are intended to help you see how your pages look on the device. However, in practice, they seem to show Flash content, which a real iPhone doesn’t at present.
Here are the culprits:
www.iphonetester.com – recommends using Safari for best results.
I’ve been working on some Flash-replacement scripting and wanted to debug. Both these are showing different results from a real iPhone.
Flash Navigation
Quick tip:
When building navigation panels in Flash, separate the buttons out from the panels or backgrounds. If you create a separate .swf that loads into the main navigation panel you can update the buttons across several variations of the same master panel.
I have just had a client with a different .swf on every page. All of them were navigation panels and used the same button set. It makes sense to keep updates to a minimum across several pages, speeding up the workflow. If a link or button style changes you only have to change it once – especially if you use instances to update the buttons themselves.
Getting a Healthy Lunch Delivered to Your Office – The LunchBox Has Landed
We all understand the importance of eating a well-balanced and nutritious lunch at work, yet a healthy lunch is still so often perceived as having to munch your way through your lunch-hour on dry rice crackers and celery sticks! Well, now that The LunchBox Has Landed, they guarantee that your lunchtimes will never be the same again! They understand how busy you are and how easy it is to turn to unhealthy fast-foods or to waste your time standing in long queues, when all you really want is a delicious choice of superior quality, healthy & nutritious lunchbox options delivered fresh to your office every day.
The LunchBox Has Landed website
The LunchBox Has Landed is a great idea for anyone in a hurry who wants their lunch delivered to the workplace and Designermagic is delighted to have been involved.
The logo, branding and website design were all created by Designermagic using a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver and After Effects, with the eCommerce and back-end built by Edmonds Commerce.
An iPhone version of this site is currently in development.
Make Flash movies load quicker
If you have a problem with slow-loading Flash movies, maybe you can look at changing your way of working!
Flash lets you create animations, which are themselves often made up of several elements. Let’s say you have a scene of a car driving across the screen. There could be several elements going on here; clouds scudding across the skyline, wheels spinning on the car for example. All of this adds to the size of the file and slows the download. (This is an example OK!)
Adobe InContext
I have just started playing with Adobe InContext editing. This is a new technology that allows websites to be edited through a browser window, without the need to install additional software.
What impact it will have on Contribute, I’m not sure, but as both technologies are from Adobe, I doubt they will make their own commercial software redundant…
