Have you ever taken a moment out from just gawking at those remarkably spunky and jazzy websites to wonder what actually makes them so? Have you ever wondered how these amazing designs were made? Now if the name Flash is familiar to you then you should know that many such website designs are done in Flash; and Flash ActionScripting is what makes millions croon for flash web site design.

In web site flash design ActionScripting facilitates the creation of interactive animations and motion graphics for effective web identity. Using ActionScript, a flash designer can create the desired flash designs. The flexibility of this scripting language renders flash web design a mush desired means of web identity promotion for every business alike.

This website is basically a community driven website where different people get a place to store and share links with other people. This product gives an opportunity to users to get familiar with the matrix of best rated links. It’s basically a site with an ongoing mission to locate and review the finest links the planet has to offer for the users which is its key feature.

Challenge Faced:
Automatically upload the image of a link, from the given URL.

Challenge Overcome:
Get the html from sending a request to given URL, and convert it to image (png) file.

About the Client:
Client is semi techincal and appreciated us for good work. Client also gave time on chat once required, and very cool who understand development problems too.

Team Members:
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Used widely across the internet marketing community, you must have come across to a link - “subscribe to feeds”. To define, a feed is a web document ending in .rss or .xml file extension. It comes as a link to any website content update – be it a blog or an article, or anything that worth sharing with your audience. Web feeds help in better content syndication and keeps your audience up to date with the latest changes/ updates/ appends corresponding to your website.

The easiest method to display RSS on websites to create additional dynamic content can be implemented through Javascript. You can to use client side javascript to parse and display the headlines on your site. To achieve this all you need to do is cut and paste some HTML or javascript code into the web page where you want the RSS feed headlines to display.

However javascripts are not search engine friendly and hence are not visible to search engine spiders. Therefore the Googlebot probably will see the RSS feed you have parsed into your site using javascript and so this RSS might not benefit your search engine rankings. Alternatively, you may communicate few web site promotion firm, who may help you in improving your search engine rankings thru various other methods. Many a web site promotion firm also offer pay per click feeds or merchant product feeds for syndication services. A web promotion specialist may devise customized feed creation delivery system to help a business/individual to propagate its identity better across the span of the web.

If you are using a third party service, and there is a possibility that the javascript is on your site you are actually calling a script on another server. If the server is busy at the other end it will mean the news feed will take longer to display on your site. And if the third party server fails or disappears altogether then your feed will not be displayed at all. So there are a few downsides, but if you do not code and want some feeds on your site quickly then this is the way to go.

Few sites that provide the free RSS to javascript service -

• Feed2JS
• RSS2HTML
• RSS-to-Javascript
• FeedSweep
• RSS Xpress Lite

Any computer software development project ideally involves proper step by step documentation of the project details. The Documentation process facilitates the maintenance and scalability of the software in the long run.

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Doc-O-Matic uses information about source code symbols and existing comments in source code files (any source files that support comments) and external documentation files and creates accurate documentation based on popular IDE documentation styles.Features such as a visualization and design tool for class hierarchies, a graphical documentation QA tool and a flexible report generator help you develop high-quality and well documented software.Doc-O-Matic Doc-O-Matic box Doc-O-Matic compiles your documentation into balanced and highly customizable HTML Help 1.x, MS Help 2, WinHelp, browser-based Help or transformes it into a double-side printable PDF document or an XML file.

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The documentation systems prepared by Doc-O-Matic comprise documentation of the entire source code, browser-based help, Windows help, HTML help, MS Help2, online help, user manuals in PDF format, XML and RTF.  Programmers use DOC-O-Matic across almost all programming languages, including C#, C/C++, C++/ CLI, Java, IDL, Delphi, VB. NET, MATLAB, JavaScript, ASP.NET and JSP. It also supports all main formats for project file generation.

As we discuss web site flash design here, something that invites particular mention is excessive dependence of flash designers on Flash interface for developing any common flash web design. However, not many realize that impressive flash designs involving movie clip symbols can also be achieved with ActionScript 3.0.

The underlying syntax for bringing in any change in a property remains the same, that is, type in the name of the movie clip instance succeeded by a period, the name of the property you wish to change, an equal to sign and the new value. For example, to change the name of a certain movie clip, say Zulu to Temp, the syntax would be:

Zulu.name=Temp;
Very simple, isn’t it?

Controlling movie clip properties with ActionScript 3.0 in web site Flash design includes several actions, such as position changing of movie clip, decrement and increment in property value etc.

Summarizing Changing a Property Value

The basic syntax to change any property of a MovieClip is to type the clip’s instance name, followed by a period (.), the property name that you want to change, an equals sign (=), and then the new value:

movieClipInstanceName.propertyName = value;

E.g. rotating the clip, Clip1 by 90 degrees -

Propeties -

x - Horizontal position,
y - Vertical position,
rotation,
alpha - Transparency,
scaleX - Horizontal scale,
scaleY - Vertical scale,
visible - Visibility

Value of Properties -

x, y, scaleX, scaleY: –infinity to +infinity
rotation: –180 to 180 (degrees)
alpha: 0 to 1 (0 = transparent, 1 = opaque)
visible: true (visible) or false (invisible)

ActionScript can actually accomplish every feature achievable with Flash interface during Flash web site design.