What are the secrets of making an e-shop successful? What do convince customers to purchase in a particular e-shop? There are some fundamentals that an e-commerce designer needs to focus on when creating a website for an e-shop. Let’s talk about them.

1. Give the customers what they are looking for

The most important reason e-shops fail is when the customers don’t find what they are looking for. Indeed, an e-commerce’s popularity doesn’t depend on lower prices or your support service. To find the answer to the question: “What exactly are your customers looking for?” means to understand your users. Your task is to help your visitors find the products they need in as fewer steps as possible.

2. Usability, not aesthetics, comes first

Believe it or not, very few e-shop owners care about design itself. When it comes to e-commerce designs, building a pretty website should not be the designer’s primary goal. What do means much is an effective design – the design which stimulates visitors to shop. The captains of e-commerce industry like eBay and Amazon became giant due to effective design.

3. Make your visitors trust you

Image by Terry Johnston

How can you make your customers trust you? Give them an experience. A successful combination of great design, usability, text content, psychological methods and metrics is able to create an experience through which the clients will trust you.

Privacy is very important for everyone. If the shopping on your website is secure, the data they enter is highly protected, e-commerce transactions are absolutely private and you prove your company is absolutely reliable and delivers its promises, you will gain your visitors’ trust very soon.

One more point a good user experience is built on is to forgive customers for a lifetime. Give your clients more than they expect and your brand will easily gain popularity and trust.

4. Make security and checkout process painless

One of the biggest obstacles a buyer has to overcome is checkout process. Shopping is always fun, but spending money is not. So, your task is to make the payment process as easy and quickly for the customers as possible.

There are some very simple, but really powerful ways to make the payment process painless and unobtrusive:

• Create a one-page checkout instead of long forms. It will increase conversion for sure.
• Keep track of all your customers. If you are able to get the customers’ e-mails in first steps, you will have a chance to catch them later in case they decided to quit.
• Arrange a 24/7 customer service. The customers should always have an ability to ask for help in case they have some technical problems.
• Don’t ask for registration. Most of the users don’t like it, and you may lose many customers.

5. Give your buyers something special

“Give your customers all they want plus a little more” – this is one of the main secrets of a successful e-shop that converts. Think out something that the visitors won’t find anywhere except your e-shop. For example, you can offer some services for free (e.g. free wrapping along with purchasing a gift). Be sure, good customers’ feedback will do its business.

Selling online is an art and a science. Only the right combination of marketing and design will be able to attract customers and make your e-commerce website convert.

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The good news is that finding the e-commerce which the best fits your needs is not that difficult as it may seem first. Please take a look at the complete design solutions for e-shops powered by MotoCMS:

Clean Style E-commerce Flash Design

Fashion E-shop Flash CMS Design

Computer Store E-commerce Solution

Flash E-commerce Design for Your Gift Shop

Flash CMS Template for Photo Store

Stylish E-commerce Design for Bag Store

Lingerie Store Flash Website Design

Flash CMS Design for Watches E-shop

Stylish E-commerce Template

Gadgets Store with MotoCMS Control Panel

You have a great opportunity to test any of these e-commerce designs before purchasing by registering a 30-day free Demo. 

]]> http://www.motocms.com/blog/flash-cms-templates/tips-creating-ecommerce-website-that-sells/feed/ 2 http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/digital-photo-strips-photography-templates/ http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/digital-photo-strips-photography-templates/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:07:29 +0000 admin http://www.motocms.com/?p=6515 It always goes without saying that website templates for photographers, artists and other creative people need a very high level of visual quality. We offer you to enjoy 10 professionally done Flash photo galleries with photo strips. Relax and go ahead!]]> It always goes without saying that website templates for photographers, artists and other creative people need a very high level of visual quality. Also they should be easy in use. That’s why we’re here to present you a collection of our latest Flash CMS templates with photo strips on home pages.

Creating interactive strips of photos is a very convenient way to preview numerous photos in a few minutes. Probably you’ll find it very easy to hover the mouse pointer over galleries and to move them here and there.

All the Flash templates include our powerful Flash content management system which will help you to edit your website easily and very quickly. We hope you’ll appreciate it (in case it’s your first acquaintance with MotoCMS) and you’ll never be disappointed over it.

Now it’s time to enjoy 10 Flash photo galleries with photo strips. Relax and go ahead!

Real Estate Website Design with Splash Page Buttons

This clean style photo gallery template can be a great solution for real estate companies and other businesses which want to showcase their works on the web.

The first thing you see entering the template is a simple white splash page with two buttons: normal or fullscreen mode. This feature will show your customers that you take care of them on every turn.

The image gallery of the template is also very simple. There is a photo strip of large thumbnails which move to the left and right. There is no limit on the number of images to upload.

And if there is a picture you’re interested in, you can click it once and a big image preview will be opened.

Flash Photo Portfolio Template with a Zoom Option

This absolutely black Flash photo portfolio is a great example of minimalist style in web design. Several web pages which are navigated with the accordion style menu are very easy to use and look really attractive. Surely you can create new pages and popups at your liking but there are already created several website sections which are irrepleacablefor photo portfolio websites.

The template also includes a separate image gallery menu. It displays gallery categories in a very convenient way, so that you can easily find any image you need. It’s also possible to create new sub-galleries or rename existing ones. And if you want to view thumbnail images you should just click on a pictures’ category and a photo strip will appear immediately.

And another adornment of this photography web template is a photo gallery. Its well-done design pleases the eye, so you’ll probably appreciate it without any changes. The gallery is also easily navigated within the right vertically oriented toolbar. It allows you to download, to print, to zoom in and out photos and to play videos (you can combine photo and video galleries in one media gallery).

Vertically Oriented Flash Photo Portfolio

This photo portfolio template looks like a fashionable masterpiece. Its deep background glow makes it look mysterious and fascinatingly.

The photo strip of gallery thumbnails is placed on the home page directly, so website visitors will always find your latest photos on the fly. Also there is a menu button which hides menu items when they are useless. So your website visitors won’t draw their attention away from images while viewing the gallery.

When you open the gallery you get into the world of beautiful full size photos. With an ability to zoom in and out images you get a chance to take a closer look at their smallest details and to take a delight in reviewing them. The interactive gallery’s sub-menu also allows you to get an additional description for every image from the gallery: you can include images, videos and texts there.

Flash Photo Gallery Template with a Great Zoom Option

This photo gallery is a real godsend for professional photographers and photo studios which have numerous scattered photos. This template will help you to easily classify all shots you have and to showcase them on the web.

The central logo box will help you to look through gallery’s sub-categories and to switch over to other ones. When you hover the mouse pointer over the home page of the template its parts start being colorized and you can take a clear view on every thumbnail.

When you click on an image preview, the photo will be opened in a full size. You can easily flip photos using navigation arrow buttons, zoom in and out, download or share them on social networks.

There is also a web page which you can use for advertizing. It includes a grid of pictures with descriptions. There are short descriptions which are visible under every picture. You can choose any photo at your liking and view it in a higher resolution.

Multilevel Photo Gallery in a Flash CMS Template

This photo portfolio template looks like an ordinary one until you don’t touch its menu with the your mouse pointer. Click the Portfolio menu item and you’ll see a strip of thumbnail images with short descriptions. You can scroll them by hovering a mouse pointer here and there.

You can also get more detailed descriptions of every image if you click on it. This mode also allows you to quickly look through photos in a low resolution.

But if you want to have a good look at pictures without additional useless and irritating details you should just click it and the photo will be displayed in a full screen mode. Using the left and right arrow buttons you can look through the entire gallery. And you can also use a small gallery toolbar to browse the gallery.

Multistoried Flash Photo Gallery Template

This Flash photo gallery looks like a cyber skyscraper or a huge cake made of images. Small navigation arrow buttons look like splashes of sweet cream and you can’t take your eyes off of the template.

It’s very easy to open images for viewing – click them and enjoy the art of photography. Interactive navigation arrow buttons will also help you to look through gallery items.

Travel Flash CMS Template

Want to create a travel website? This Flash CMS template combines a strict business style design with a rich functionality of image galleries. It has an interactive image gallery at the top of the splash page. Every image has a short description with a price and a link to the page with more detailed information about the product.

There is also a background image gallery which arranges different backgrounds for different Flash pages. It allows to make your website more attractive for end-users.

As it was mentioned earlier the template includes an eye-catchy image gallery which can be navigated manually or in a slideshow mode. Every image can be supplemented with a short description at your liking.

Flash Gallery for Widescreen Photos

This Flash portfolio template was created for those people who appreciate creative and unconventional ideas. The home page of the template can be colored see-green, red or light green. And sub-gallery previews look like photo frames.

When you choose a photo to take a closer look at (click it once), it is opened in a full size. The image gallery has a separate toolbar which allows to zoom in and out images, to download or to print them from a website directly. You can also view photos by means of the left and right arrow buttons.

The Ready-Made Flash Photo Portfolio

This photo portfolio template was created for professional and amateur photographers with numerous photos of different sizes and resolutions. An interactive strip of small thumbnails locates under the preview image and allows to choose which photos you want to look at. You can also set a slideshow mode and view photos automatically.

Capacious Photo Portfolio

This type of photo portfolio templates is very popular among photographers and web designers. It looks very stylish and it’s very simple in use. All photos’ categories are visible on the home page directly and to browse them you should just hover your mouse pointer over the page.

The photo gallery of the template is very simple. Every sub-category has a vertically oriented photo strip of thumbnails and one big preview. Above thumbnails there are two arrow buttons, so that you can quickly navigate through the gallery.

We hope you’ll appreciate all the photo gallery templates above. And if you have any suggestions and creative ides on how to improve our products for you, our dear friends, we’ll be glad to know them from the comments field below.

And if there is a Flash CMS template you like you can always register its 30 days free demo version and try it in practice.

Unfortunately, we can’t have fun with all of you guys during the Halloween day (but believe us, we’d love to:). So, we decided to announce the whole-day 10% discount on all Flash CMS templates. The discount is valid from October 31 till November 01. Don’t hesitate too long – the promo time’s running out very quickly. We don’t want you miss a lucky chance to buy a Flash CMS template with a good discount:)

Here is a special round-up of black Flash templates from the MotoCMS collection. We truly hope you’ll spend today’s 10% discount on one of them.

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Getting started with your own wedding website is really easy. You don’t need to be a programmer to create a  professional, stylish and extremely beautiful wedding album. Today’s post showcases the newest premium wedding website templates that were specially developed by MotoCMS team for wedding albums and the portfolios of wedding photographers.

Each of the templates is a complete Flash website with the integrated Moto CMS. You will be able to create a wedding album in a blink, without anyone’s assistance.

Wedding Portfolio with Sliding Horizontal Gallery

It couldn’t be any easier to create a highly functional interactive wedding album with this striking Flash photo template with transitional effects. Catchy and extremely stylish, it will become a brilliant solution for any wedding album or a wedding photographer’s portfolio.

Your website visitors can easily browse through the website section due to the intuitive menu that can be modified via the “Main Menu” module within the control panel. You can add as many sub-pages of the menu sections as you wish.

The photo gallery that is navigated intuitively will showcase your wedding photos in a special way, and definitely amaze your album’s visitors. To scroll the gallery, just hover the mouse over the left or right gallery’s side. Point the cursor over a photo, and the gallery will stop.

When you click on an image preview, the full size photo will open. You can easily add a description to each photo which can be visible below the photo when a visitor hovers the mouse over the image. The photos can also be viewed with the arrow buttons below the image description.

Wedding Gallery Template with Showroom

This attractive wedding album with impressive layout and stunning visual effects will definitely become an excellent solution for your Special Day website. Black-and-white layout, transitional effects and great textures used in the template’s design make the solution really stunning.

The photo gallery will present your wedding photos in a creative way: the images are thrown on a dark background what creates a great visual impression on visitors. Click any image to zoom in and see the photo of original size.

One of the most attractive features of the portfolio is the “Showroom” section where the visitors can view the photos one by one and read the description to each of the works. This section will especially be useful for wedding photographers who showcase their works for sale.

Clean Style Wedding Photo Album

A clean style design works the best for wedding photo albums. Touching wedding photos look amazing within the frame of tender cleanness. Free from clutter and heavy design elements, this minimalistic portfolio looks stylish and professional.

The gallery is performed as a slideshow that can be disabled if necessary. The photos can be viewed by using the hidden arrow buttons placed on the right and left of the image.

The “Our Wedding” section can showcase the info regarding the wedding ceremony. You can even embed videos in the website and add a description to each of them.

Effects Rich Wedding Photo Gallery for Impressive Photo Album

If you are searching for some really impressive solution for your photography portfolio, this Flash template with the integrated WYSIWYG editor will be a great choice.

The navigation of the website is really unique: to scroll the big image preview, you need to point the mouse over the small thumbnail gallery. To view the full size photo, just click on its preview (either big or small). To go back to the gallery, just click on the photo. Easy, unusual and really impressive…

The clean layout makes the portfolio unobtrusive but extremely stylish. The website sections of the website can be filled with your own content and modified to your liking.

Wedding Photo Album with Flip Book Effect

This neat Flash book will showcase your wedding photos in the most creative way. Your wedding album can be performed in the form of a digital book that looks like a glossy magazine. It’s indeed an unusual and memorable solution for a wedding album.

The photo gallery is navigated with the numbered buttons or by clicking on the page’s corner. The transitional effect makes the photo album more impressive and adds more charm to the portfolio.

Impressive Photo Portfolio for Your Special Day

This attractive wedding Flash website is peculiar for the amazing gallery previews that easily run when you point the mouse over them. Bright interactive elements on dark background create an unforgettable impression on visitors.

The full size photos can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnails. Also, your website visitors can view the photos by clicking on the arrow buttons. Moreover, there is an ability to add a description to each photo.

Clean Style Photo Gallery for a Wedding Album

This wonderful clean Flash template may become a great basis for your online wedding album. The  thumbnail preview strip is easily running when you hover the mouse over it. Click on the photo preview you would like to look at, and a full size photo will open.

The functionality of this stunning template allows you to upload the photos of any size, what makes this wedding solution universal. You are not limited with the number of images, so you may add as many photos to the album as you wish.

Wedding Album with Intuitively Scrollable Gallery

This neat stylish design may become a fantastic choice for a wedding album or a wedding photographer’s portfolio. The unusual image gallery with vertical scrolling and intuitive navigation allows the visitors to view the photos in a simple convenient way.

The full size preview is performed in slideshow mode, but it can be easily disabled by clicking on the “stop” button in the center of the photo. In addition, the photos can be viewed one by one with the arrow buttons.

Flash Wedding Portfolio with Full Screen Gallery

This Flash wedding gallery creates a fullscreen gallery of your precious photos and gives the viewers a chance to examine every single detail of your works. A simple yet stylish menu will help your website visitors to easily navigate the album.

One of the most impressive details of the album is the gallery navigation: to open the next photo, you should click on the current one. Due to the richest media library integrated into the template, you can add as many photos as you need.

Full Screen Album to Imprint Your Wedding

This photo portfolio with a simple concept is a great way to showcase your wedding photos and make a really cool wedding album. The gallery works in full screen mode what makes the template really interesting. The navigation is performed in an unusual manner: the photos are displayed in full screen mode, and to view the next one you just need to click on the current photo.

Functional Wedding Photo Gallery with a Progress Indicator

This gorgeous gallery is definitely one of the most stylish, original and highly functional solutions in the niche. There are a progress indicator that shows the number of the gallery you are looking through, the number of the current photo as well as the thumbnail gallery progress. A pretty interesting design solution.

The thumbnail preview is navigated with the arrow buttons. You can choose the photo you like in full size by clicking on its thumbnail. The full size gallery is navigated by clicking on the current photo.

Remember that you have an opportunity to test any of Flash templates by registering the 30 day Demo. The Demo version is 100% corresponds to the licensed product and allows the users to customize the template and use the system to the full extent. Moreover, you can always change the current template to another one using the same e-mail. After 30 days, you will be able to buy out the customized template with all the modifications made within the control panel.

Today’s post is intended for the people who love nothing best than seeing the world through the lens of their cameras — photographers. But of course, web designers and all those who are dreaming about having their own professional image portfolio will find many fresh ideas and new creative solutions for their web projects.

So, meet a new portion of Flash photo gallery templates powered by MotoCMS. Each of them may become a true gift for a photographer, artist or the one who tends to exhibit images online.

Flash Gallery with Vertical Thumbnail Preview

This Flash CMS gallery designed in a neat style will present your photo works in the most attractive way. The gallery preview is placed vertically and can be navigated by pointing the mouse over it. To stop the gallery just remove the cursor from the gallery. The full size images can be viewed by clicking on the big arrow buttons.

Clean Horizontal Flash CMS Gallery

This Flash photo gallery is indeed one of the handiest solutions for showcasing images of different sizes. To exhibit your photos online you won’t need to re-size your images to a standard size. All the photos can be previewed on the home page by scrolling intuitively the interactive horizontal preview. The photos can also be viewed one by one, with the hidden arrow buttons that can be visible when you hover the mouse over them.

Functional Flash Template for a Photo Portfolio

An unusual Flash portfolio with a multisectional menu that may contain as many sections and sub-sections as the website owner needs. The designer’s idea of replicating the menu in the website footer was a really good one.

The image gallery is navigated either with the small arrow buttons on the full size preview or with the thumbnail preview placed below the big image. All the gallery elements are neat and user-friendly.

Running Three-Striped Interactive Gallery

Do you like bright photo portfolios with sticky interactive elements? This Flash CMS design won’t disappoint you. It’s impossible to take eyes from these interactive three preview stripes that are easily moving through the screen. All the photo works can be viewed right from the website’s home page.

The drop down menu is neat and user-friendly.

Wedding Flash Photo Album

This adorable Flash photo gallery will become a great solution for any image portfolio. Created in clean style, it will easily win your visitors’ hearts.

There are two gallery menus in the template: the 1st one is for the whole website that is navigated intuitively, and another one is for each gallery section, performed as a clickable thumbnail image gallery.

Stylish Flash Photo Gallery with Slideshow

This Flash photo portfolio powered by Moto CMS is peculiar for the attractive textured background and stylish font. Looking simple and unobtrusive at first glance, this stunning template opens widest opportunities to the photographers and artists.

There is a slideshow function within the template, so the visitors can view the photos one by one in the slideshow mode. For easy navigation, there are also two hidden arrow panels that become visible when you point the mouse over them.

Please draw your attention at the upper accordion style menu — what an unusual design!

Flash Photo Gallery with Page Flipping Effect

If you love the idea of showcasing your photos in the form of a digital magazine, look at this stunning Flash solution. Due to the Page Flip Component integrated into the template’s control panel, you can create your own online photo catalog with the appropriate visual and sound effects. Your visitors will be browsing through your photo album by dragging the book’s corner or simply clicking on it.

Stunning Flash Photo Portfolio with Panoramic Gallery

The navigation in this Flash photo portfolio is really impressive. There are two horizontal galleries that are easily running through the page: a full size (panoramic) one and the thumbnail preview placed at the foot of the page. Both galleries can be scrolled by pointing the mouse over them. The full screen mode is available.

Black-and-White Flash Gallery for Photographers

Here is a gift for all fans of black-and-white designs. The gallery is performed in a unique creative style, and the catchy visual interactivity added for the black-and-white photos makes the design really memorable. To open the full size photo you need to click on its thumbnail.

The stylish menu with the intuitive navigation allows the website owner to create as many sections and sub-sections as necessary.

Due to the powerful Moto control panel integrated into the template, you can easily turn your black photo gallery into a colored one.

Grayscale Flash Photo Album

This fantastic grayscale Flash design will definitely impress your future website visitors. Grey and white colors create a beautiful combination, and a simple but stylish font makes the design complete. The textures used for the background adds more charm and style to the website.

The colored photos are kind of thrown on the page and create an adorable mess. To view the photo more detailed, the visitors will just need to click on its thumbnail. This creative way of exhibiting images is beloved by many designers and artists.

Flash CMS Gallery with a Photo Queue

This really stunning piece of Flash with 3D elements will become a stylish, unusual and extremely convenient solution for any image portfolio. The gallery is performed in the form of the interactive photo queue which showcases images in a catchy creative way.

The functional accordion style menu is navigated intuitively and may contain as many sections as you wish.

Flash Photo Portfolio with Intuitively Scrollable Gallery

This type of design is beloved by many photographers and designers for its convenience, attractiveness and simplicity in use. All the photo works can be viewed right from the home page. The navigation of the gallery is intuitive: to browse through the page you simply need to move the cursor over the page.

Personal Wedding Flash Photo Album

This beautiful photo portfolio with a soft touching layout has been created as a personal wedding album. A black-and-white color scheme in combination with stunning visual effects will leave an unforgettable impression on visitors.

The gallery preview and full size photos are navigated vertically with arrow buttons.

Cube-Shaped Flash 3D Portfolio

This well-known cube-shaped 3D masterpiece has been extremely popular since its first release on black background. Now we have it on a grey textured background that looks unusual and stylish.

This revolving Papervision 3D cube may contain a large number of images and will showcase them in a catchy creative way. To stop the cube just point the cursor over it.

There are two menus within the design. The upper one (that is drop down) has been created for the overall website navigation, and the second one (at the foot of the page) has been designed for the gallery navigation.

Textured Photo Portfolio with Horizontally Scrollable Gallery

This stylish Flash CMS solution will ideally work for any online image presentation or personal portfolio. The designer used attractive textures for the website’s background and a stylish creative font for the text content.

The compact image gallery that is scrolled horizontally with a mouse wheel may contain as many images as you need.

Functional Flash Gallery for a Photo Portfolio

If you are searching for a neat and functional theme for a photo portfolio, draw your attention at this design. It has everything you need for a professional photo portfolio: a clean free from clutter layout, a convenient multisectional gallery and easy-to-use menu.

You can create as many image galleries within the template as you need, and add an unlimited number of image to the Media Library via the powerful Moto control panel integrated into the template.

Creative Flash Portfolio with Unusual Gallery Design

What a creative design for an image gallery! There are two galleriess that cross each other and are scrolled intuitively. The horizontal gallery showcases the portfolio’s sections, and the galleries with vertical scrolling are the album’s sub-sections.  This template it is also able to contain an unlimited number of images and media files.

Flash CMS Photo Portfolio with Slideshow Mode

This perfect Flash design is peculiar for its amazing photo gallery that is placed right on the home page. The photos are viewed in full size at once in the slideshow mode, but the collection can also be viewed by navigating the gallery with the arrow buttons.

The charming music embedded in the website adds more charm to the portfolio. By the way, you can add any background music by uploading the MP3 files into the Media Library.

Each of the galleries presented above can be easily customized and then edited via the Moto control panel integrated into the templates. Actually, they are complete Flash websites that are ready for use.

To evaluate the highest functionality of the Moto Flash CMS, you have a great opportunity to try the Flash templates you like for FREE by registering a 30 day DEMO. The Demo version completely corresponds to the original product.

]]> http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/new-flash-photo-galleries-burst-of-creativity/feed/ 0 http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/flash-templates-motocms/ http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/flash-templates-motocms/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:45:50 +0000 admin http://www.motocms.com/?p=6040 To confirm the place of honor of Flash among other techniques which are popular and preferable by millions of web masters, MotoCMS is glad to present you new categories of Flash CMS Templates. Meet stretchable Flash templates and online stores (shops) Flash templates.]]> The world of IT doesn’t stand still. There are rumors in the air that Flash is a dying out technology. But there are also those people who think that Flash is still a very powerful tool with numerous advantages. Flash gives great opportunities for creating websites of an incredible beauty. Any other technology among those which are available for web developers can’t boast of such a success in a beautiful websites creation.

To confirm the place of honor of Flash among other techniques which are popular and preferable by millions of web masters, MotoCMS is glad to present you new categories of Flash CMS Templates. Both of them will definitely blow your mind and make you cry: “I love you Flash!”. So meet new revolutionary templates’ categories from MotoCMS:

• Stretchable Templates;
• Online Stores (Shops).

Stretchable Templates

The limited websites’ height is one of the main disadvantages which is usually imputed to Flash. But from now on this limitation is not a topical problem. We offer you a new type of Flash templates with a variable page height. Flash templates of this category allow you to decide by yourself how big your Flash page should be.

You can now stretch your website up to 2880 pixels. This space seems to be sufficient to place all necessary content on one page.

In case the selected page height is more than your screen can display at once a HTML scroller appears.. You can also manually choose a Flash scrollbar instead of the default one. This Flash scroller is easily customizable, so you can adjust the scrollbar speed, resize the scroll thumb according to the content height and change scrollbar colors.

Please pay your attention that only those Flash themes which are in the “Stretchable templates” category of our store can be resized. But if you are a web developer then using our Flash CMS you can easily create a Flash website with a variable page height. There is also a small mark on every Flash CMS template which will notify you that this theme is stretchable

Online Stores (Shops) Templates

Flash is often associated with entertainment websites and stylish portfolios. But it can be successfully used for creating websites of different subject areas. And now MotoCMS offers you to try Flash in online stores building. With our new online e-commerce Flash CMS templates all your business has left to do is to gain a success.

This type of templates is equipped with the Shopping Cart slot which will help you to arrange selling or renting of different products.

Our control panel allows you to manage all shopping cart table labels, choose its color scheme and adjust the payment system options.

All new online store templates contain the Grid Gallery module. It works as a catalogue of goods and services for shops and supermarkets, restaurants and cafes, hotels and different agencies.

There are blocks for a short description and price. You can also have a good look at every item you like, read more about it and add it to the shopping cart. The list of chosen products can also be reviewed and changed.

We hope that this short review of our new templates’ categories will be useful for you. Stay in touch with us to be well informed about further Moto Flash CMS news. We do our best, so that you can go with the times with our Flash templates and Flash CMS. Our products are aimed at making your Flash website look great and be easy editable, so that everybody can try to be web developer and designer all rolled into one.

You might notice that our renewed Flash Templates store differs greatly from the previous one, so we’d like to start our manual from the templates’ control panel demo registration. So now we’re going to present you our new Flash CMS template #34700.

1. When you open the Flash CMS template which you’d like to test you can see the Control Panel Demo button under the theme preview. Click it to try the 30 days free demo version of the Flash template.

When your personal login and password are delivered to your email you are welcome to start customizing the Flash template.

2. From now on there is nothing easier then to change the template’s page height. Type the necessary size of the page at the right toolbar of the control panel and click Enter – changes will become visible immediately.

3. To change any title you just need to double click on a text element and change settings at your taste.

4. This template also contains the Splash Page Gallery Preview slot which displays only those images which were chosen by you. You can upload there as many pictures as you wish, so that your Flash website will always look differently.

5. The other thing we’d like to demonstrate in action is the HTML widget. Find this menu item on the left toolbar of the admin panel (Modules – General – HTML Widget) and choose the place on the page where you want it to locate.

In this sample we decided to paste three social buttons of the most popular social networks within the HTML widget (Google+, Twitter, Facebook).

A double click on the widget icon will open it for editing. There are many HTML templates which you can instal on your website. All of them are supplemented with detailed instructions of how to adjust HTML modules.

There is also the Blank HTML template which allows you to add any HTML code you need. It is possible to use javascript, CSS styles, and any other standard HTML tags. This means that you can paste any content sections over the Flash pages.

Now we’re going to show you how to operate with the Blank HTML template. It should be noted that there will be no complications while creating new HTML content. We’re going to paste a PayPal button over the Products page. By the way, you can move through the website pages using the top toolbar or by opening the Content tab – Pages.

On the Products page you can see a list of products. Every item is supplemented with an image and a short description. Every product’s cart is opened in a separate pop-up, so that you can get more information about it. All that you need to do is to open a popup, to paste the HTML widget and to embed the right HTML code (you can easily find the right one on the web). To embed this module into other popups use the Copy and Paste buttons in the top left corner of the control panel.

6. So far as we’re creating a Flash website for a flowers trading company we should change the featured images into every popup.

And the Products module should also be edited. Take into consideration that Preview and Thumbnail fields should be filled in with the same pictures links.

7. Let’s take the next step. The updated MotoCMS contains the Advanced Contact Form widget. This module is good for a contact forms creation as well as a surveys drawing. The improved contact form allows you to add Text fields, Select and CheckBox items and upload files from your computer. These innovations get out all limitations and help to be closer to your customers.

8. As we announced earlier some gallery options had been extended. And now we’ll demonstrate how your video files can be arranged. Open the Presentation page – there you’ll find the video gallery which consists of 2 separate parts: the Media Gallery Thumbnail List and the Media Gallery Preview.

Within the right toolbar you can orient thumbnails vertically or horizontally. You can also adjust some settings:

• Items settings (item creation delay, item corner radius, item border color and width);
• Vertical or horizontal settings (number of columns and rows, items width and height, vertical and horizontal spacing);
• Arrow settings (arrow color and width, arrows corner radius, rotation, preload module, blend mode).

Within the same right toolbar you can customize the media player (just don’t forget to select the Media Gallery Preview):

• Enable or disable slideshow;
• Adjust arrow settings (arrow background color and size, arrow color);
• Manage Mediaplayer skin settings (background, elements colors, fonts);
• Activate preload mode.

To fill these modules with new videos click twice on them and add new items from the Media Library. You can also link every video to wherever you want.

In case you don’t have necessary video files you can upload them from YouTube. The Search YouTube button integrated into the Media Library allows you to browse through youtube.com without leaving your browser window.

The other feature that should be mentioned here is the YouTube Quality option. It doesn’t require any specific complex settings. The quality of videos displayed on your website is the same as on YouTube itself, so visitors will be able to change it against their screen resolution.

9. From now on it is possible to share separate Flash pages in social networks. And the Share Button Slot will be your good assistant, so that nothing will be hard. Find it in the list of available slots on the left toolbar of the control panel. Find the right place for the icons and paste social buttons of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Vkontakte. No more settings are needed.

10. And don’t forget to rename the website’s title and to add the favicon. Just open Prepherences (at the very top of your control panel), then choose the Website tab and make all changes. There you can also enable a Flash scroll instead of the default HTML one.

11. When all customizations will be done compress XML files and preview the results (please do it every time when you stop working with the template). The Compress & Preview Website button is hidden in the upper corner of the control panel.

Now, when all changes are made we offer you to view the Flash website yourself.

And if you have any notes and comments concerning our renewed Flash CMS please don’t hesitate to address us.

Independence Day (the 4th of July) is a significant holiday for all Americans around the world. It is a federal holiday in the United States that honors the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The date is a big event for all Americans. Each year they celebrate freedom and independence with fireworks, parades, picnics, carnivals and fairs. This day politics say speeches, solemn ceremonies and sports events are held all over the country.

This year we celebrate the 235th Birthday of America. We congratulate all Americans worldwide and wish them freedom in their hearts, their actions and their spirit!

In this Fourth of July, MotoCMS is also commemorating independence, and as a part of celebration is giving 20% OFF on ALL premium Moto Flash Templates. It’s one week promo that starts today, on July 4, and ends up on July 11, 2011.

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]]> http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/moto-flash-templates-promo-independence-day/feed/ 1 http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/flash-website-templates-for-professional-portfolios-summer-bunch/ http://www.motocms.com/blog/project-news/flash-website-templates-for-professional-portfolios-summer-bunch/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:56:56 +0000 Tina Zennand http://www.motocms.com/?p=5689 Summer is finally upon us, and we are all really excited here, because this great season always brings a special mood with it. It is the time of vacations, the sea, hot sunny days and constant sensation of holidays:) But in spite of the festive mood, our team works intensely to please you with new stunning designs of the highest functionality. So, please meet a new portion of creative Flash templates powered by MotoCMS! ]]> Summer is finally upon us, and we are all really excited here, because this great season always brings a special mood with it. It is the time of vacations, the sea, hot sunny days and constant sensation of holidays:)

But in spite of the festive mood, our team works intensely to please you with new stunning designs of the highest functionality. So, please meet a new portion of creative Flash templates powered by MotoCMS that are all perfect solutions for creating the most impressive Flash websites. Today we present Flash CMS designs for various types of portfolios that will perfectly work for photographers’, artists’, web designers’, musicians’ websites, and many other web projects.

Don’t forget that summer is the time of attractive promos, discounts and giveaways. So, please keep following us to stay up-to-date with the latest project news!

Moto Flash CMS Portfolios

Flash CMS Photo Folio with Functional Scrolling Gallery

This Flash CMS portfolio will definitely be appreciated by all those who value functionality and style above all. The catchy layout and stylish interactive elements make the template extremely attractive. The solution will ideally work for any type of portfolios: photographers’, artists’, web designers’ or just personal pages.

The functional image gallery is scrolled vertically. Click on an image, and it will open in a new window. Moreover, the solution is equipped with the background gallery: the website visitor will select the background he prefers the best. The slideshow and full screen modes are available.

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Impressive Photo Portfolio with Interactive Thumbnail Preview

Want a professional eye catchy portfolio? Try this Flash CMS template in action. So neat and stylish, it looks gorgeous and invites the visitors to examine the portfolio in detail. The solution is equipped with a horizontal thumbnail gallery and full size gallery that can be navigated with the interactive arrow buttons. The thumbnails are black-and-white, but when you point the mouse over a thumb, it becomes bright.

Due to the richest Media Library integrated into the control panel, you can upload as many photos as you need.

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Textured Image Portfolio with Background Gallery

This awesome Flash website template is one of the most optimal solutions for any portfolio. Stylish interactivity and unusual design approaches make the template stand out among other portfolios. The textured background looks really unusual.

The template is equipped with two galleries: the background gallery that views the images in slideshow mode and the gallery with interactive thumbnail preview.

Due to the richest highly functional Moto control panel integrated into the template, you will be able to add image and text content, change the background images, embed fonts, modules and slots, and much more.

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Clean Style Photographer’s Portfolio

This clean Flash design with clear navigation and simple layout will definitely be appreciated by all minimalist style lovers. The gallery is extremely simple but really functional. The navigation is performed with arrow buttons above the image. There are two menus: the vertical website menu and horizontal gallery menu. An unobtrusive but truly professional design.

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Multifunctional Flash Photographer’s Portfolio

This Flash design will become a great presentation of your photo works online. The full screen gallery and interactive accordion style menu are the main attractive elements of the portfolio. Due to the powerful control panel, you can add as many menu sections and sub-sections as you need.

The gallery is performed in a very convenient manner; a separate thumbnail preview is created for each gallery section. There is an ability to add a description to each image that can be seen if you point the mouse over the thumbnail.

Click on a thumbnail, and a big image preview will open. You can view the photos right from there, by means of the “prev” and “next” buttons.

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Flash Photo Portfolio with Horizontally Scrollable Gallery

A gorgeous rich design! The splash page is performed in minimalistic style: light creative font on dark background look so stylish.

The most eye candy element of the template is the gallery that easily slides horizontally exhibiting the photo works in the creative way. Point the cursor over a thumbnail, and the gallery will stop.

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Impressive Photo Gallery with Sliding Thumbnail Previews

The website created on the basis of this Flash CMS template will never leave the visitors indifferent. The gallery is performed in a really attractive style: each of the thumbnail preview stripes slides when you hover the mouse over it. The images are grayscale, but they become bright when you point the cursor over them.

We click on the thumbnail of the image we like and the full size preview opens. Now we can examine the image in detail. We can also view the photos one by one by clicking on the big arrow button.

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Functional Flash Portfolio Solution for Professionals

This compact Flash CMS template is a good choice for professionals who are planning to exhibit their works for sale. It may be a photo studio or a freelance photographer. Also, it will work fine for personal photo albums. It is a great solution for showcasing your works in the easiest way.

Your visitors will see the gallery right on the Splash Page. The number of sub-galleries are unlimited, so you can easily sort your photos and place them according to definite categories. The navigation of sub-galleries is performed via the upper drop down menu.

You can perform the plenty of functions within your template’s control panel. Due to the powerful images and slots like Contact Form module and Google Maps widget embedded in the control panel, you can create a functional, useful and visually attractive “Contact Us” section.

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Stunning Photo Gallery with Creative Menu Design

This Flash CMS design will definitely impress female photographers, but it will also work great for any portfolio. With the help of advanced Moto control panel, you can easily modify the template to your liking: change the background or menu sections color, embed and use your own font, etc.

The most catchy element of the website is the interactive menu with intuitive navigation. The sections are created in the form of bright half-circles which reveal the circle buttons that lead to sub-sections.

The horizontal gallery is scrolled intuitively, when you hover the cursor over it. Also, there is a background gallery that shows the images in full size, and can be navigated with the stylish arrow buttons.

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Professional Flash Solution for Web Design Studio

A professional web designer’s portfolio is an essential point of planning his business strategy. It should demonstrate his professionalism. This Flash CMS Template is an ideal solution for presenting web design works online. A stylish neat structure, convenient navigation and compact effective way of presenting web works will definitely be appreciated by the website visitors.

The compact gallery structure will meet the requirements of the most demanding designers. The preview is navigated with the arrow buttons.

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Flash CMS Portfolio with Sliding Gallery

This attractive Flash CMS portfolio presents a really good way of exhibiting photos as well as other images online. Every single element of the website is at its place, every single detail is chosen to match the whole design.

The gallery is sliding when you hover the cursor over it. Due to the convenient WYSIWYG editor, you can easily modify the website content: create pages, menu sections, upload the unlimited number of images, and much more.

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Musician’s Flash CMS Portfolio

This fantastic bright Flash CMS template was specially created for musicians who would like to have own professional portfolio. Actually, it will work great for any online music related project. This Flash CMS template is a complete website with Moto CMS integrated that can easily be customized by a person with no programming skills.

The design is equipped with MP3 player and media player for music and video online presentations. You can embed the unlimited number of MP3 and media files in the website via the mostly intuitive control panel.

There is a great Tour section where your fans will be able to learn about your tour schedule and upcoming concerts.

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Amazing Flash Portfolio for Web Designers

This Flash CMS based portfolio template is a complete website that will work very well for web design studios or freelance designers. The splash page performed in clean style looks very attractive.

The gallery is extremely functional and easy-to-use. The thumbnail preview is navigated with simple arrow buttons that, by the way, can easily be modified via the control panel. The visitors may also view the works via the large image preview performed as a slideshow.

The template is indeed one of the best solutions for web designers’ projects ever.

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You are welcome to look through the entire collection of Flash website templates powered by Moto CMS and evaluate their high quality as well as an inexhaustible fantasy of our designers!

The Facebook layouts that have been launched recently and enriched our collection, aroused a great interest among many Facebook fans, web designers and developers. The reason of Facebook Flash templates popularity is their flexibility and really attractive look. Due to the advanced Moto Flash CMS integrated into each template, it couldn’t be any easier to create an impressive, unique and highly functional Facebook Fan Page for your photo/web design studio or another business web project. Today we would like to show you how to create a catchy and highly functional Facebook Fan Page.

We invite you to pass through the process of editing one of Flash CMS templates for Facebook from our Flash templates collection and evaluate the widest opportunities the Facebook layouts based on Moto Flash CMS open for their users.

For our experiment, we have chosen the Flash Facebook template #33109. Let’s start creating a website for Facebook photo portfolio…

Go to http://yourwebsite.com/admin/ to get access to the control panel (if you get the access for the first time, you will be asked to activate it).

Please activate your product on http://accounts.cms-guide.com/ (Your account details will be sent to your e-mail after you have purchased Moto CMS) and refresh your browser page.

Open the Facebook Flash template control panel:

1. You may easily edit the template via Wizard (File — Wizard) in the control panel. With its help you may easily modify the template and create your own Flash website for Facebook.

The Wizard helps you to edit the website structure and its content, create new pages and pop-ups as well as change the website and control panel settings.

2. Changing the title. The title can easily be changed by means of the Logo Slot: activate the “Show All Objects” function via the upper tools panel, and use Text Editor via the “Label” in the slot properties:

3. Editing Photo Gallery Content. You may easily upload your own photos to the gallery. For that you should edit the Image Gallery module. Double click on the gallery within the control panel, remove the current images from the gallery and add the new ones by clicking on the “Add Media” button.

Due to Moto Image Editor functionality, you may upload images of any size (even more than 2800 px) directly to the Media Library and then edit it right within the control panel. Within the Image Editor, you may zoom an image, rotate, re-size and crop it, adjust colors, add visual effects (like grayscale, negative, sepia, etc., add sharpness, blur, and also colorize it), specify the name and metadata, etc.

Double click on the image in order to open the Image Editor.

When adding a group of files, you will be able to set the parameters for the whole group.

Here you may specify the following settings:

• Choose the size of the added images (if necessary). When changing the size, you may set the image’s width and height or use the «Scaling mode» function;
• Place the added images in a separate folder;
• Link the images to an internal or external page or a pop-up.

4. Each Flash template powered by MotoCMS contains the Music Player module. You may edit the module by double clicking on the equalizer icon or by clicking on the “Edit Module” button on the module’s control panel:

You may add as many music files as you wish by clicking on the “Add” button.

Open Media Library by clicking on the ‘URL” button and add the necessary music files by means of the “Add Media” button. Before adding the music files, upload them to the media library in the same way as you uploaded images.

After you uploaded the music files, you may specify the music player settings for the chosen music tracks.

You may edit the following settings for the added tracks within the Music Player:

You may set the following parameters for each sound track:

• Auto load and play. If you select «Yes», the music will sound automatically, after the visitor opens the splash page;
• Activate the “Repeat” function;
• Set the volume parameters by dragging the slider of the “Default Volume” option;
• Activate the “Primary” option for the sound track;
• Set the Buffer Time (in seconds); “buffering” means that the player starts tracking before the file download is complete.

5. Now let’s edit other pages of the Facebook Flash CMS template. Select the page you are going to edit: Content — Website Pages:

Don’t forget to save changes!

Here you can make the following modifications:

• Add and remove pages;
• Specify a name, title and URL for each page;
• Change the template structure by placing the pages in the order you need them to be placed;

We decided to make a photo album consisting of a few pages. So, we will leave the home page with the image gallery, the “About” and “Mail” (Contact Me) pages. As for the rest of the pages, we’ll delete them.

6. Now let’s fill the pages with the necessary info. Select the page you are going to edit from the “Current Section” list. You may edit the text and title via the Rich Content Block module.

You can manage the module settings by clicking on the “Edit Module” button. In the “Module Settings” section you can set the block width and height, choose background color as well as adjust content position.

Also, you may edit the text according to the template design and your own preferences: you may easily change the font, its size and color.

7. Now we go to the “Contact Me” page within the control panel and edit its content in the same way we edited the “About Me” page, and changed the website title with the help of the Logo Slot. Moreover, you may add a contact form due to the embedded Form Widget.

8. If you are interested in showing people your office location, you may add a Google map to your Facebook Flash website with the help of the Google Maps Widget.

Let’s add a map to the “Contact Me” page.

To embed a map, you should register your website and get Map API Key.

Within the module, you may set the latitude and longtitude, add a title and description for markers as well as place the unlimited number of markers on the map. Also, it is possible to specify the Default Map Type, set the zoom parameters, background settings, etc.

In addition to the above mentioned functionality, Moto CMS has other useful modules and slots, such as News Widget, RSS Feed, Media and MP3 player as well as modules, widgets and slots for a functional image gallery creation (Photo Gallery Preview, Photo Gallery Thumbnail List, etc.)

Well, we have finished editing the template; now it’s time to evaluate the final result:

Home Page:

About Page:

Contact Page:

Browse through the entire collection of Facebook Flash CMS Templates and choose one for your own Facebook Fan Page!