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Made for creative people.

HIGHLIGHTS

• DEEP LINKING : fully implemented for all levels. Every corner (page, section, gallery item, image, video, audio, news title etc.) of your website is bookmark-able. The navigation is identical to what a pure HTML website offers – you can use internal links based on the URLs which are generated by the engine (there is no difference between these internal links and a regular link), the browsers back-forward buttons and history are available etc.. Everything runs AUTOMATICALLY – no setup or any other preparation is needed. The implemented Deep-Linking engine automatically updates the browser window title depending on the website section being visited and creates the URLs in the Apache server mod_rewrite style, starting from the real titles you used and replacing the unsafe chars. Now you had a foundation for Search Engines Optimization – based on the generated URLs you can write a site map in the html page and you can build an alternate HTML content.
• EXTENSIBILITY : you can extend your website by loading external SWF Flash files – could be ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3.0 files. No more worries about the version of the file you bought on Activeden or elsewhere – just write in the XML the path to that SWF file you want to be loaded and this application will take care of everything else. More, you had full control over the way that external SWF will look and behave on screen and over its functionality: you can control (in XML ) the line up, the aspect ratio, the scale up, the margins; if you need some more advanced control, you can call various methods, if these are provided by the external SWF you want to be loaded, and transfer parameters – no programming knowledge necessary, everything can be done from XML ; supposing you intend to load an external AS2 gallery, you could mention in XML that a method named load should be called when that gallery is loaded and the path to an XML file should be passed to this method; specific methods could be called (in the same manner) when the loaded SWF resizes on screen or when it is removed; details are provided in the extended User Guide, based on the cases of external SWF files already included in the package. In addition the engine automatically detects the external SWF timeline length and provides or not play-pause buttons and seek bar for timeline control.
  This capability of loading both ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3.0 files is available in case of the Multi-categories Multimedia Gallery, the Projects Multimedia Gallery and the Multimedia Slide-show too. Not mentioning that the logo which is loaded at runtime can be a picture or a SWF file (ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3.0).
  The local connection reliability in case of multiple instances is ensured by an internal GUID generator.
• ADD -ONS: you can load additional files – could be ActionScript 2 / ActionsScript 3.0 files of any complexity (they can load external XML files too) or just simple images (JPG, GIF , PNG) – on top of your website pages (galleries, slide-show, HTML content, external SWF files…). All the External SWF Loader module s capabilities (described before) are available for the ADD -ONS too – there is a single difference: the add-on is never resized on screen (its initial height and width remains unchanged), though you can easily and precisely control its position on screen via your line up and margins indications written in XML .
  You can define a default add-on, like the Vimeo button displayed on some pages, and-or specific add-ons for each section (entry in the navigation menu), like the Technorati button displayed on the HOME page.
• MULTIMEDIA CAPABILITIES : all media you could need to be played by your website will… be played by your website. The Multi-categories Multimedia Gallery, the Projects Multimedia Gallery and the Multimedia Slide-show are capable to handle: Pictures (JPG, GIF , PNG), ActionScript 2 SWF files, ActionScript 3.0 SWF files, Videos, MP3 Audios and YouTube direct video stream (the YT video quality options are available too).
  The YouTube Direct Stream implementation is fully reliable and legal – it is based on the YouTube s official player (supported by the YT technical team). You can enable or disable the YouTube player usage, depending on your needs, from the configuration XML file (an on-off switch is provided there) – when it is disabled, your website loading time at startup will be drastically reduced because no YouTube player will be loaded.
  The MP3 audio content can be accompanied by the presentation of pictures (an album cover, for example), ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3.0 Flash animations.
  There are no restrictions regarding the way the media types are organized: you can create mixed galleries (various media types – videos, pictures, SWF files, audios, YouTube videos – included in the same gallery) or dedicated galleries (video galleries, audio galleries etc.). The ambient music player operations are integrated within the multimedia content being played and will automatically stop or start playing accordingly – in case of ActionScript SWF files you can override this automatic behavior, forcing (from XML ) the ambient music player to continue playing while that Flash animations is presented.
• AUTOMATIC THUMBNAILS GENERATOR : the Multi-categories Multimedia Gallery and the Projects Multimedia Gallery will display some thumbnails around a gallery item when the mouse pointer rolls-over it. There is no need to provide those thumbnails because they are automatically generated by this application, using the pictures themselves – the thumbnails generator runs in background and acts depending on the momentary bandwidth usage: if it is idle will download the pictures, otherwise (in case of a video stream, for example) will temporarily pause all operations; once a picture is fully downloaded, it will resize and cut the image, creating the thumbnail. A positive side-effect is that the downloaded pictures will be already available in the browser s cache next time, when the user will want to see it. The thumbnails generator is able to create thumbnails for ActionScript 3.0 files too. Anyway you still can provide thumbnails that you specifically created for some items and to force this application to display your(!) thumbnails at runtime by mentioning the path in XML , if you want. For videos, audios and ActionScript 2 files you had to provide thumbnails.
  In case of the News Gallery, this application will automatically generate thumbnails starting from the real news titles and text. You had full control over colors and font styles (XML, CSS ).
• MULTI -LINGUAL CAPABILITIES : all languages are supported (including chinese, japanese, korean, arabic, spanish etc.). No setup necessary, just write your text in any language you want – several languages can be used at the same time. Examples provided by the sections ABOUT and HIGHLIGHTS
• PayPal SALES OPTION : you can sell media via PayPal if you need – all you had to do is to define an id and a price for each item you want to sell. All parameters regarding PayPal (such as PayPal address, currency etc.) are configurable via the XML configuration file. The PayPal Sales Option is available for both the Multi-categories Multimedia Gallery and the Projects Multimedia Gallery.
• DYNAMIC BACKGROUNDS : you can define a different background (pictures or ActionScript 3.0 SWF files) to be loaded and displayed for each module. You can define, also, a default background which will be always displayed – the backgrounds specified for modules will be displayed on top of this default background: you can combine this way two different backgrounds, like in the case of this file preview (a JPG image is defined as default background and various SWF files are defined for various modules; no specific background is defined for the HOME page and for the PORTFOLIO page). In case of the SWF (AS2 or AS3 ) files Loader a different background can be defined for each instance (entry in the navigation menu). Everything can be done by simply indicating (in XML ) the appropriate path to the files that you want to be loaded as backgrounds. All background resources are pre-cached at startup in order to ensure a fast delivery when required. An alternative is provided also: simple solid color default background (just define the color in the configuration XML file).
• 8 versatile MODULES covering your needs: HTML Content, News Gallery, Multi-categories Multimedia Gallery, Projects Multimedia Gallery, Multimedia Slide-show, External SWF (AS2 or AS3 ) Loader, External Links, Contact Form. All modules are reusable – your website can have, for example, two sections which both are using the Multimedia Slide-show. More, a module could be used for a purpose that is different than the one suggested by default: for example, the Projects Gallery is suitable to present your team members too. The Contact Form is an external SWF – you can replace it with your custom Contact Form if you need by simply updating the appropriate path in the configuration XML file.
• Stylish and rather uncommon PIXELATION TRANSITION for media and text.
• EVERYTHING -IN-ONE-PLACE Navigation: all controls are organized in a single area on screen, for easier identification and improved usability.
• Reliable, thoroughly tested, advanced, quality CODE : commented code, strong encapsulation, Object Oriented Programming.
• In-depth Easy and Fully CUSTOMIZATION : you had full control over all colors, alpha transparencies, backgrounds, font styles, dimensions, margins, padding, line up etc. of various elements of the layout (including the full control over the logo position), being able to radically change the way your website looks on screen. More, you had control over the functionality of various modules (for example, the scrolling speed, the initial sound volume, the media auto-play status, video and audio buffer length etc.). And everything can be done from the configuration XML file and, in case of the HTML content, from CSS style sheets. The configuration elements are standardized and identical or quasi-identical from one module to another for an optimal learning curve.
• Detailed USER -GUIDE: 80 pages of details, screenshots, examples and tutorials in PDF format.