Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Promoting Website, SEO
Adobe announced that they’ve made a special version of the Flash Player available to Google and Yahoo that allows them to fully index rich Internet applications and other SWF content. The content in rich Internet applications is now available to Google, and that means that RIAs should be easier to find in Google. This is one of the main issues that people ask about when talking about rich Internet applications, so its great to see Google, Yahoo and Adobe working together to solve this problem.
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Adobe has created a special Flash player for the search engines that acts like a virtual user going through each application. It actually goes through the runtime of each Flash application and translates it into something the search engines can understand..
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Full article: http://www.enetlive.net/?p=16
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in July 2008
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Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Web Client
I posted over on The Map Room about that I didn’t care for the Flash viewer for Yahoo! Maps and a poster asked me to elaborate. Since I’ve upgraded to Flash 8.0, it seems to respond much faster than it did before (when I was still using Flash 7), but that brings up my biggest issue to way I don’t like flash as a viewer. I’ve always liked Autodesk Mapguide as a web mapping tool, but its biggest drawback was that you needed a plugin to get it to work and even then that plugin only ran on Internet Explorer..
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Full article: http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Indexed in May 2008
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Custom Programming, Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Server-side Scripting, Video in Web
Following a really interesting thread on the chattyfig Flashcomm list I have now been able to put together a simple video player which is capable of requesting and playing parts of a flv video file that have not previously been downloaded.
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Here’s the working example. You need Player 8 for this but that’s only because I encoded the video using VP6. The rest is compatible with Player 7.
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Full article: http://www.flashcomguru.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 England & Wales
Indexed in May 2008
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Custom Programming, Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Web Standards
One of the problems that I’ve always had with Flash is that all of the good stuff stays buried in the actual .swf file, away from spiders, screen readers and lower technology enabled browsers. It strikes me as odd that there isn’t a standard method for treating Flash (or other types of rich media) in a similar fashion to CSS. With the exception of video assets, there really aren’t many types of content on the web these days that can’t be at least partially displayed in some form of textual representation.
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Semantic XHTML for Flash - v0.1
Behind the scenes there isn’t a ton of ground breaking code, just a lot of solutions to a lot of small sequential problems. The basic flow through the page acrobatics is:..
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Full article: http://www.jamesv.org/2007/04/22/semantic-xhtml-for-flash/
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Indexed in May 2008
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Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Promoting Website, SEO
SEO Question: As a long time SEO myself, there is one thing that has me mystified. If you do a search in Google under “chocolate”, Godiva comes up #1, Hershey comes up #2. Yet, if you look at their home pages, they have almost no text there. In fact, Godiva has no real text at all. Yes, they have PR6, but still, how is it that these “big boys” come up on top with a home page devoid of any SEO or real text? Is it all links?
SEO Answer: For competitive queries Google’s relevancy algorithms are probably about 99% linkage data. Those brands are so strong that their linkage data means they do not need page copy to rank for general relevant terms..
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A few tips for using flash (if you must use it):
- Create descriptive useful page titles and meta descriptions.
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Full article: http://www.seobook.com/archives/001457.shtml
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in May 2008
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Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Web Standards
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After some experimentation and testing (quite a bit, in fact), I discovered a method of using the object element alone to get Flash playing in pretty much every commonly used browser. The technique had one problem, however, and that was that Internet Explorer wouldn’t start the Player until the entire file had been downloaded – the user would have to wait for the entire movie to download before it would even play the first frame..
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Full article: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales
License: http://allinthehead.com
Indexed in April 2008
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Ethic, Legal and Copyright Issues, Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Promoting Website, SEO
If you use Flash replacement techniques could Google misinterpret your pages and apply a penalty? Flash replacement techniques are quite a hot topic of late after reported comments attributed to Google about the implications of certain Flash replacement techniques.
What is Flash Replacement?
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Flash replacement involves substituting plain text output with Flash-based textual content which uses anti-aliased fonts. (Anti-aliasing, for anyone unfamiliar with the phrase, basically means removing jagged edges from text.)
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Full article: http://www.redcardinal.ie
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
Indexed in April 2008
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Flash and Vector Graphic, Free for Web, Graphics, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
Man, that’s a mouthful just from the getgo. Ok, so here’s what I was playing around with yesterday; I’ve got a bunch of photos up at Flickr, I’ve got a TurntheScrew 2.0 Redux, and all kinds of shiny new toys. How do I put the pieces together and make them play nicely?
First off Joe Tan has written an excellent plugin for wordpress that seamlessly integrates your Flickr account into wordpress. The plugin, Flickr photo album for Wordpress, was like most other plugins, painless and easy to install..
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Full article: http://turnthescrew.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 Austria
Indexed in April 2008
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Flash and Vector Graphic, SEO
As you know, a Flash movie as the index page of a site has always been a major problem with search engine optimization. There’s simply no content for the search engines to index.
So when I learned that Google can index the contents of Macromedia Flash movies, I was astonished. It seemed this remarkable discovery had gone virtually unnoticed in the SEO community.
But as you probably know, Google has always been the first to index different types of content: PDF files, .doc files, etc. Google has also made amazing inroads in being able to index dynamic content.
And now they’re the first major search engine to index Flash - another significant step forward in the SEO industry..
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Full article: http://www.searchengineworkshops.com/articles/flash.html
License: Creative Commons License
Indexed in March 2008
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Flash and Vector Graphic
The following feature was written to serve two purposes: to provide an easy-to-follow introduction to the Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit and to demonstrate a method for using Flash as an animation underlayer for enhancing web applications. While I have fallen in love with a variety of JavaScript animation libraries developed in the wake of the Web 2.0 buzz, I have never found an implementation that makes me feel like it could truly replace the animation abilities inherent within the Flash player.
While the complexity of the JavaScript files needed to create visual effects consistently across browsers grows ridiculously, I’m finding myself yearning for compromise. Programs like Measure Map and Yahoo Maps Beta show us that the great dynamic promise of Ajax is definitely compatible with the interactive capabilities of Flash. The following implementation illustrates a way to let JavaScript do what it does best—manipulate DOM and make calls to the server—and Flash do what it does best—dance..
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Full article: http://particletree.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic
Indexed in March 2008
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