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Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object

Continuing with my updating an Actionscript 2 project to Actionscript 3 I’m really enjoying the optimisation possibilities that AS3 provides.

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Actionscript 3: Inheritance Subclass and private vars

I’m currently updating some as2 projects to as3 and I had a series of 1120 compiler errors this afternoon. I’m a fan of using the ‘extends’ keyword to create customised versions of base classes. In Actionscript 2 the subclass can access all the variables and methods of the original class. It appears that in ActionScript [...]

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Flash mp3 music player

Today my newest Flash file was released on ActiveDen.net. It is an mp3 player with an attached album and artist library.

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Useful code for debugging MovieClip.localToGlobal() headaches

I hate localToGlobal. There I’ve said it. It seems that there are some things in Actionscript that always seem to throw me off – this is my main one.

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SEO friendly Flash templates

This weekend I have updated my existing FlashDen template and added a new one to the queue which should be available early next week. I have been doing some research over the past few months into making my Flash Templates more SEO friendly.

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Guide to adding an image gallery (or other actionscript 2 component) to the mbudm#001 template

A few buyers and potential buyers have been asking me about adding an external SWF to my “Minimalist, versatile, corporate site template” on FlashDen.net.

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SEO, small business and Flash

Whilst waiting for Google to discover my basic attempt at SEO for Flash I have been scouring the web and getting a better idea of progress down this road. What I’ve discovered is

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Where in the world is Sonia Kruschev?

I recently added a flash site template to my Flashden.net folio and it seems to be selling quite well which is great. However I can’t ignore the fact that like most Flash sites it probably won’t be easily discovered by Google. With SEO being forefront in peoples minds nowadays when creating even the most simple [...]

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