Discount Bonanza

		We’ve moved to bigger and better offices = discount bonanza for you! And thank you! Last month we moved to a bigger and better office! We choose not to go for a regular office space with cubicles, but to a small villa downtown. We thought this would be better for the creative juices of our engineers and I can actually write this email from the small patio! Of course we couldn’t have done it without you, our Extend Studio friends (Chris are you reading this?), partners and customers. I wish everybody could have prosperous year the same way we do and maybe our products help you do more with less? Talking about less, let me give you a hand with a discount bonanza that goes until Monday, 10 of May (to purchase use the buy links from this post). PS: in case you are wondering, all products will be CS5 compatible by Friday, May 07. Yours, Cristian Dorobantescu Business Development Manager (more…)

17 website optimization tips for Web Developers

A few posts ago, we have started talking about website optimization tips and promised will follow up with more stuff later. Good news, we have compiled a list of 17 essential optimization tips to make your website load faster, to simplify your CSS rules and JavaScript code and many other bits and pieces that every Web developer should know.

First we will talk about some performance rules for your website.  One way to check for your website performance is to have the Yslow extension for Firefox Firebug installed. Here is how to install and use the Yslow plugin. And below you can see a picture how it looks like.

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Sneak peak into the new Creative Flash Scroller AS3

The new version comes with AS3 support, improved interface and improved documentation

With Creative Flash Scroller you can scroll any kind of Flash Content: static text, dynamic text, pictures, animations, movies. It comes with multiple scroll behaviors: touch scroll, mouse gesture scroll, scrollbar scroll and even supports mouse wheel behavior. You can add smooth scrolling or motion blur effects and customize it to suit your design, from an easy to use interface.

What’s new in the AS3 version?

• ActionScript 3 control- If you are a coder you can manage the scroller directly from ActionScript. The component uses AS2 or AS3 methods, events and properties which gives you full control over the behaviors
• Easy to use interface – The component comes now with a flash like user interface in the Component Inspector. The learning curve is almost instant

• Improved documentation, including videos.

Release date and pricing for the Creative Flash Scroller AS3

All current AS2 customers will get the AS3 version upgrade for free after the release on April 14th! New customers will be able to get the AS3 version at an introductory price for until April 30th. Register here to be the first to hear when the release is made public and take advantage of the introductory price.