We’re happy to inform you that our Moto Flash CMS has been updated to the Version 1.7! This major release includes only a few innovations, but be sure that all the improvements will be of a great use for you.

From now on, all the new features are available within all our Flash templates. So, here you’ll find a short description of each feature of our new MotoCMS version.

1. The speed of files loading has been increased

This news is really great for developers. Due to some technical improvements within our control panel, a size of SWF files of the Flash CMS has now been reduced by more than 50%. Thereby, the entire Flash pages’ loading time has been increased.

All these improvements are forced by our update to Adobe Flash CS5. From now on, all the FLA files of our Flash CMS can be opened only using this software. Please note, if you want to use Adobe Flash CS3, you should convert back FLA files from CS5 to CS4 and than to CS3.

2. The ability to pin objects to screen edges has been added

This new option enables you to pin different objects to screen edges. It’s especially good for images. You can stretch them horizontally and/or vertically by checking a proper item. It’s also possible to edit an offset by changing its value manually or moving an object with your mouse. To disable this option, you should just double click it.

You can also select the Scaling Mode of images to make them look better. You can choose one of the following options:

• Fill;
• Crop;
• Fit;
• Resize;
• No scale.

Using this option, you can also place images on the background layer of a Flash page or entire website. For reaching the best results, stretch an image vertically and/or horizontally (1), choose the fill scaling mode (2) and select the background holder as a placement (3).

The ability to fix current errors by yourself has been improved

This major update also makes it easier to fix some errors which can happen while working with our control panel. There are several easy to use instructions which will help you to solve the most common problems without a need to address the support team.

We hope these significant improvements will help you to gain a success while using our Flash CMS. We really want to make your online presence more pleasant. If you have some remarks or thoughts which will help us to be better for you, we’ll be glad to know them. Please don’t hesitate to drop a line in the comments field below. Your feedback is very valuable and will enable us to serve you better.

MotoCMS 1.6 offers new features and significant improvements over previous versions and now we’ll give you an exhaustive description of every single one. So make yourself comfortable and discover the magic world of the renewed Moto Flash CMS.

1. The ability to protect pages and popups with a password has been added.

Some of you probably need to diverse website content for different users. We received many messages from our customers with a request for assistance to help them to protect several pages or popups with a password. And now the new feature is at your services.

In the top toolbar of the control panel there is a ‘Preferences’ tab where you can find the ‘Website Preferences’ and ‘Password Protect’ tabs. Check mark and activate the password protection of your website pages and popups. Now you may type a password and adjust the login box style settings (form title, wrong password message, button label, form padding, form and button colors, password text format, password field and form background colors, etc.).

Please note that the password is valid for all website pages and popups. At present you can’t set different passwords for different content or different groups of users.

Also when the password is activated it is possible to tick off pages or popups which are private.

Also note that the password’s ‘lifetime’ is something about 1 hour. When the connection period is coming to the end, website visitors would reenter the password again

Here you can find final results that website visitors will see when entering a password protected page. The page is colored in tones you chose in the ‘Login Box’ customization window. Moreover the password field snaps to the website’s top.

2. ‘Contact Form’ widget has been improved.

The ‘Advanced Contact Form’ widget is now supplemented with new items: the radio button and the text area.

Radio buttons help you to create lists with an ability to check answers from the available variants. You can create several radio button groups. To make them work correctly please select unique group names for each of them. You can choose any titles you like.

The text area item is rather common to the already existing text field item. But this new one allows to input long texts without no limitations in a number of words or characters.

There are also settings for SMTP server adjustment. The ‘Configuration’ button will open additional panel where you can specify email, status message texts and enable usage of SMTP server.

3. New ‘Search’ widget has been integrated.

On our customers requests new ‘Search’ widget for the texts search is available. It consists of two parts: ‘Search Field’ and ‘Search Results List’. To receive correct search results you need to link these two parts of the widget to each other. Create a new page or popup, add the ‘Rich Content’ widget, open it and then insert the ‘Search Results List’ widget there.

Now you can place ‘Search Field’ wherever you need. And don’t forget to select the ‘Search Results’ section location.

4. The connection of widgets with content has been improved.

When you’re going to create a new widget you need to choose a proper content for it. From now on you can create new content or select an existing one from the list.

5. The ‘Buy Now Button’ widget has been created.

A new ‘Buy Now Button’ widget can help you to sell goods and services within your Flash website. While creating the button you can adjust following features:

• Product information (product code, price, brand, model, short description) which will be delivered to your email.
• Button Style (button label, background style, button corner radius, bottom stroke, etc.).
• Payment settings (every payment method – PayPal, Google Checkout, Robox, Using Email – has different settings).

Please note that if you choose payments within the email (all purchases’ requests will be delivered to your email) you should create a separate contact form for getting additional information about customers. It is possible to link the ‘Buy now’ button to this contact form by mentioning the contact form location in the buttons settings.

6. The new ‘Background’ widget has been integrated.

This new widget allows to cover website background with colors and images.

You can choose image scaling mode:

• fit;
• fit width;
• fit height;
• crop;
• resize;
• no scale;
• pattern.

Using the content ‘Placement’ buttons it is possible to place background images under all or only several objects.

7. The ability to integrate popular online services (Picasa, Flickr, Facebook) into Flash CMS has been created.

If you want to upload photos from your Picasa, Flickr or Facebook account you can do it directly within the updated control panel. New buttons of popular services were created on the top panel of the ‘Media Library’.

You should allow the chosen social network to connect to your website and to add pictures to your ‘Media Library’. Please note that it will take some time because images will be uploaded to your website hosting account. You should also allow popups which are often permitted by your browser settings. The control panel connection with social networks will last for something about 2 hours. In case you need to continue images selection you should repeat a connection.

Unfortunately it is almost impossible to upload videos using this feature – this process would take too much time.

8. Slots and modules were combined into new ‘Widgets’ category.

From now on there is no differentiation between slots and modules – all of them are combined into the ‘Widgets’ category. Moreover all insignificant slots were sorted out into a new category of ‘Simple elements’.

9. The Atom publishing protocol has been integrated to the ‘RSS’ widget.

This additional standard of feeds sharing allows to verify and improve the process of blogging updates receiving.

10. The ability to add Vimeo videos to the ‘HTML’ widget has been added.

The HTML Widget is supplemented with a new HTML template which allows to upload any kinds of videos from Vimeo.

11. The ability to place YouTube videos directly into pages has been integrated.

In the previous versions of MotoCMS you were able to place only .flv video files into website pages directly. From now on you can also place videos from YouTube within the left toolbar .

12. The design of ‘Preferences’ window has been changed.

The improved ‘Preferences’ window now includes comprehensive settings for control panel and website preferences, ‘Media Library’ and ‘Fonts Manager’.

There is also one ‘Save’ button for all settings. You can switch over window’s tabs and save changes at the very end before closing the window – be sure that all changes you’ve made will be safe.

The latest version of Moto Flash CMS presents you many great free features, so that you can provide your online business safely, quickly and being sure of tomorrow. MotoCMS is glad to fulfill your wishes and please you with new feature-rich updates. So try our new 1.6 version of Flash CMS and tell us what do you think about it.

Today we are revealing the updates added in the Moto CMS versions 1.5.1 and 1 5.2 that have been made available recently. The new releases offer some useful improvements and bugfixes as well as several new features.

So, what new enhancements the versions 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 deliver to its users? We’ll find out right now.

1.5.1 – The non-Latin input compatibility mode

Some browsers have a problem with the non-Latin characters input. It happens when the wmode parameter is either “transparent” or “opaque”. MotoCMS uses wmode=”opaque” by default. It is required for the HTML Widget to function well.

With the MotoCMS version 1.5.1 we have added an option which lets you solve this issue. If you are having a problem with the non-Latin characters input in some browsers, you can solve it by enabling this option in the Website Preferences:

When you enable this option, the wmode parameter is switched to its default value (wmode=”window”). It helps to avoid the browser’s bug when the input of some non-Latin characters doesn’t work, but unfortunately it disables the HTML Widget usage.

Please note that you won’t be able to use the HTML Widget when this compatibility mode is enabled.

1.5.2 – Facebook content for non-fans

MotoCMS is announcing a new feature for the Facebook templates – the  content for non-fans. It lets you hide your main website content from non-fans and show some other content instead. When they click the Like button, they will immediately get an access to the content for non-fans, which is your website.

It’s very easy to enable the content for non-fans. Just open the Website Preferences, go to the Facebook section, and enable the checkbox:

There are two content types which can be chosen: Static image and Custom HTML. The first option lets you use an image as the content for non-fans. This image should attract the visitors’ interest and encourage them to become fans.

The second option is Custom HTML. It lets you use:

-HTML tags;
-custom styles;
-JavaScript (jQuery is enabled).

Here is an example of how the Custom HTML content looks like:

In both cases, when a visitor chooses to become a fan, the non-fans content will be instantly replaced with the website.

When you enable this option, the wmode parameter is switched to its default value (wmode=”window”). It helps to avoid the browser‘s bug when the input of some non-Latin characters doesn’t work, but unfortunately it disables the HTML Widget usage.

Attract more fans to your Facebook pages using the fans-only content in the Moto Facebook templates!

Your opinion is very important for us. Please leave your feedback and offers regarding the functionality of the powerful Moto Flash CMS as well as your ideas as for new features and options on Moto CMS Forum in the Feature Requests section.

You are welcome to register a 30 day FREE Trial (for a standalone version) or a 30 day FREE Demo (for premium Moto Flash templates). The Trial and Demo have no limits and fully correspond to the end product. It will give you a full freedom to create a powerful Flash website and take complete control of it via the convenient control panel.

We would like to introduce new features and to show you how to set up the Contact Form in the Moto Flash CMS control panel. So, let’s open the control panel and discover the new opportunities of the Contact Form.

1. How to add the Advanced Contact Form.

You can find the Advanced Contact Form in the Contact Forms category of the Modules menu. Just select it and add to the stage.

When it’s added, double-click it to open the editing window. Create new content and specify its name.

When the “Add” button is clicked, the default items will be displayed. You can drag and resize them the way you want. The same goes for the buttons and the status message field.

2. Item types.

You can add as many items as you need. There are four item types which can be added to the Advanced Contact Form.

They are:

• Text Field
• Select
• CheckBox
• File Upload

Let’s consider each of them.

Text Field

This item type enables text input. Here are the properties that you may set for it:

You can set different order for this item in the contact form and in the e-mail. It can be set with the help of Order in mail and Tab order properties. The Name property specifies the field’s name in the e-mail, while Text to show is the field’s name which will be displayed in the website. If you set the field as required, the contact form message won’t be sent before some data is added.

Additional properties let you:

• add symbols which you don’t want to be input;
• set the maximal field length;
• switch the password display mode;
• enable the multiline mode;
• enable validation.

You can choose one of the validation types for the last property:

• String Validator;
• Email Validator;
• Number Validator;
• Date Validator;

Each validator can be customized with the help of additional properties. The validation error messages can be changed in Configuration – Validation Error Messages.

Select

This is the drop down menu that lets the user select one value from a list. The selected value will be sent in the e-mail. The Select item properties:

The Options property field is multiline, so you can enter as many options as needed. Each option should be added from a new line. The Selected value property lets you choose an option which will be selected in the default state.

CheckBox

CheckBox lets the user select or deselect a specified option. The email from the contact form will notify whether the option was checked or unchecked. The CheckBox item has the following properties:

The Text position property switches between the right and the left position of text in relation to the box. The Selected property lets you choose whether the option should be checked in the default state.

File Upload

And the last item is the File Upload. It lets the user upload a file, which will be sent as an email attachment. Here are the File Upload item properties:

The Allowed Extensions property lets you specify the file extensions which you allow the users to upload. The extensions should be separated by commas with no spaces.  The size of files that can be uploaded is limited by the PHP settings of your server.

3. Form Configuration

If you press the Configuration button, the Form Configuration window will open.

The main parameter which should be set here is the email address which the messages will be sent to. Also you can set the status messages, email subject, text format, validation selection, and the PHP file name. The last option is for advanced users only.

4. The Contact Form Properties

The list of properties is displayed on the right panel when the Contact Form module is selected on the stage.

The Input Text Format and the Message Text Format properties let you change the text parameters for the fields and for the status message.

Submit Button Label and Reset Button Labels are the properties which let you set the contact form buttons labels. The Item Style group of properties lets you adjust the contact form fields appearance. The Button Style properties perform the visual adjustments of the contact form buttons.

The widget is available for FREE with the purchase of Moto CMS standalone version or any premium Flash CMS template from our collection.

Choose one of the Flash CMS templates and register a 30 day DEMO in order to try the Advanced Contact Form Widget in action!

The updated version Moto CMS 1.5 includes new features and improvements that make it more user-friendly, convenient and versatile. It is available for all our existing customers and those who’re just thinking about trying our Flash content management system.

We’d like you to keep in mind that MotoCMS provides new updates to ensure that your Flash websites work at the highest level. Stay in touch to be the first one to know the latest news from us!


Read on to learn what features have been improved and which ones were built from scratch!

1. HTML Widget has been implemented.

This super innovative module makes it possible to paste HTML code over any Flash page for varying the website content.

Please note that all these implementations are displayed on the normal mode only – it is not visible in the control panel and on the fullscreen of the website. It will always be placed over all objects on your website.
You can also see that all modules are divided into categories. In future the number of widgets will increase, so this arrangement will simplify the work with them greatly.

Within the HTML widget it is possible to paste the following HTML templates:

• Blank HTML (It enables you to paste your own HTML code. You can use javascript, CSS styles and any standard HTML tags.).
• Google Applications (Google Document, Google Spreadsheet, Google Calendar, Picasa Slideshow, GoogleMaps, YouTube).
• Google Friend Connect (Members, Social bar, Comments).
• Twitter (Profile widget, Search widget, Faves widget, List widget, Follow button, Tweet button).
• Dashboard (IntenseDebate, Disqus).
• Facebook (Like button, Comments, Activity feed, Recommendations, Like box).
• Vkontakte (groups).
• Dropbox (Jot Form, DropItToMe).
• Box.
• Flickr Badge.
• Blogger.
• Meebo.Email Me Form.
• Nabble Forum.

There also is a detailed instruction of how to install every module.

2. An ability to create stretchable Moto websites has been added.

You can easily set the height of every single page of the stretchable website. But note that this feature is available only in some cases when our Flash templates suit this function. There will be new templates category where this feature will be available.

From now on all web developers who’s going to create Flash websites based on Moto Flash CMS can build websites with variable height.

This also means that there is a choice of scrollers within the control panel. By editing website preferences it is possible to enable the Flash scrollbar against the common one. You can also manage the scrollbar speed and colors.

3. The Advanced Contact Form has been added.

The updated contact form makes the process of getting feedback much easier.

Within the Contact Form Widget you can edit:

• general Contact form properties (text formats, button labels, blend mode);
• items style (lines thickness and colors, buttons colors, shadow options);
• buttons style (lines thickness and colors, buttons colors, shadow options)

There is also an opportunity to add new items to the Contact form, so that your visitors send more informative messages for you:

• Select item.
• CheckBox item.
• File Upload.

4. The work with YouTube videos has been optimized.

From now on there is an opportunity to embed YouTube videos in the Media Library. You can easily paste your video into wherever you want and then customize video player for any designs.

5. Video Gallery opportunities are extended.

You are also able to find YouTube videos from the Media Library directly (without visiting youtube.com) using the Search YouTube button.

You can also choose a higher or lower quality of displayed YouTube videos. This YouTube Quality Option helps to adapt videos to any screen resolution and speeds of Internet.

6. Social Network Sharing Slot has been implemented.

Website pages can now be shared in social networks with the help of this new slot.

It is also possible to supplement the message with your comments.

7. Placement Attributes are now displayed.

Placement Attributes are displayed at the top toolbar, so by clicking any object you can see its placement (on single pages or on the entire website), ability or disability to be stretched with the website and to snap to other objects, website center or sides.

8. Properties Dependence Option has been included.

This function means that you can hide some detailed settings of those options which you don’t want to enable right now. It will visually decrease the quantity of displayed settings and help you not to miss a thing.

By updating to the latest version of MotoCMS, you can be sure your Flash website will always work at its best. For getting new features to your website open your Moto control panel and the system will offer you to update the Moto CMS version. If you are not a Moto CMS user then you can try it for free for 30 days within the Flash CMS Demo. Choosing one of more then 100 fully-functional Flash templates you can get to know all advantages of our content management system with all updates included.

This major release significantly improves the system functionality, includes new tools and options as well as eliminates some system errors. In addition, the MotoCMS developers have made a nice present to all the users and embedded a new module – News Widget in the control panel.

Let’s take a deeper look at the improvements that have been made inside the control panel:

1. The manipulation of objects has been improved.

• Multiple objects can now be selected and modified (such options as transformation, rotation, resizing, etc. are now available);
• The objects can now snap to each other and the website center or edges within the control panel.

2. News Widget.

This innovative module makes the process of publishing news much easier.

Within the module, you can manage the following settings:

• Basic Settings (orientation — vertical or horizontal, number of visible blocks, choose what content to show and clickable area, slideshow interval, animation settings, etc.);
• Style Settings (choose the title format, text format, date format as well as image height, width, etc,);
• Arrows Settings (arrows width, heigth, background, alpha, color, corner radius, and arrows icon size);
• Activate the “Preload Module” function, choose the block’s size parameters, rotation angle and blend mode.

3. Contact Form module improved.

• The Contact Form display in the control panel is now identical to the one on the website.
• The tab order of the form fields can now be changed together with their order in the e-mail with results.

4. The process of saving content has been optimized. Content XML files now occupy less space.

• The “Compress & Preview Website” option compresses XML files to improve the website loading time. This option can be used when the website editing has been finished. If choosing the “Save” option after the option “Compress & Preview Website”, the compressed files will be replaced by the uncompressed ones.

5. Font smoothing for the custom fonts has been added that significantly improves the appearance:

6. New methods to ActionScript Moto API have been added:

• MotoUtils.setHTMLTextFromPropertyVO(target:TextField, propertyVO:PropertyVO, caching:Boolean = false):void – Assigns the HTML text to the text field with the specific motoCMS parameters.
• MotoUtils.setHTMLParametersFromPropertyVO(target:TextField, propertyVO:PropertyVO, caching:Boolean = false):void – Assigns specific motoCMS HTML parameters to the text field.
• MotoUtils.getRasterize(target:DisplayObject, clip:Rectangle = null):Bitmap – Gets the rasterization of the specified visual object.
• MotoUtils.getStageTLPoint():Point – Returns the top left point of flash movie considering the current stage.align value.
• MotoUtils.translatePropertyVO(propertyType:uint, propertyVO:PropertyVO):PropertyVO – Clones propertyVO and sets the specified propertyType.

Also, new classes have been added:

• AbstractTreeInfoModule – Abstract class for the tree-like catalog implementation.
• AbstractDropDownModule – BaseDropDownModule – Base class which implements the DropDown Catalog.
• AbstractMotoMenu – comes from AbstractDropDownModule with backward compatibility realization.
• Updated classes: AbstractMotoObject, AdvancedScrollbar, MotoArranger, AbstractMotoMenu.
• New Classes: AbstractTreeInfoModule, AbstractDropDownModule, BaseDropDownModule.

For more detailed info please check the API Documentation.

7.  Other system errors have been fixed and modifications have been made:

• Website display errors in IE9 have been fixed.
• Automatic content recovery on errors have been added.
• External rich content module errors have been fixed.
• Overall control panel performance and responsiveness have been improved.

The above mentioned improvements are available with Moto CMS standalone or with one of the premium Moto Flash Templates. If you are a Moto CMS user, you will be suggested to install the latest updates when you open your Moto control panel.

Feel free to register a 30 day Free Demo by choosing one of Flash CMS templates and evaluate a new functionality of the updated control panel!

We highly appreciate your feedback and offers concerning Moto CMS functionality. Please leave your ideas as for new features and options on MotoCMS Forum in the Feature Requests section.

The tutorial presents a step-by-step extensive instruction on how to develop a functional Flash portfolio with the help of a standalone Moto CMS version.  As you know, Moto CMS for Flash contains the full set of advanced utilities, components and tools that allow to create a Flash CMS based website with no additional components needed.

The article covers many important aspects, among which are:

• Creating the content holders;
• Creating slots;
• Modules;
• The website preloader editing;
• Creating the website pages and content;
• The advantages of Moto CMS features and functionality.

There are 20 main steps that will pass you through the whole process of Flash CMS Portfolio development:

Step 1 – describes how to download Moto CMS files;

Step 2 – includes the detailed Moto CMS files and folders overview;

Step 3 – shows how to launch the base template on localhost;

Step 4 –  demonstrates how to edit config.xml;

Step 5 – editing Style CSS;

Step 6 – describes the process of creating the preloader;

Step 7 – setting the website background;

Step 8 – creating the website title and tag line;

Step 9 – adding the home page image;

Step 10 – creating the bottom menu;

Step 11 – describes how to create the content holders;

Step 12 – creating the “About” page and adding content to it;

Step 13 – editing the image preloader;

Step 14 – includes the animation aspects: how to animate the default content holder as well as create additional content holders and animate them;

Step 15 – the website content animation;

Step 16 – creating the contact page;

Step 17 – creating a simple slot;

Step 18 – an advanced slot creation;

Step 19 – creating a Flash music player;

Step 20 -  creating a Flash image gallery.

As you see, there is a bunch of extremely useful unique information that has never been published before. We hope it will be of a great use for you, and the web world will see many new stylish Flash websites created by our users. As for us, we are always ready to help you!

Also, we invite you to join our Moto CMS Forum, where you will find the plenty of other necessary info regarding our product as well as professional help of our Support Team.

Despite many difficulties Flash experienced in 2010 (with the development of HTML5, Silverlight and other technologies, after all those discussions around Flash with iPad release), this technology keeps smiling and still gladdens our eye with interactivity, stunning visual effects and advanced opportunities. Today Flash is considered not as a rich technology for implementing the most unbelievable design ideas and bold concepts into reality only, but also as a strong advanced instrument that helps to create professional  multifunctional websites for various web projects.

Of course, Flash CMS developers must take full credit for this – they opened many doors for Flash designers and Flash website owners that used to be closed for them. With Flash CMS it’s become possible to implement many designers’ ideas and create really stunning, modern and advanced Flash websites.

So, what trends, concepts and ideas have been most prominent during 2010 in Flash industry? We will find out right now.

Clean Style and Grid

Clean style Flash designs have been on top of popularity during the ongoing year, and there is no wonder why. In order to achieve with Flash what can be achieved using traditional methods and at the same time create an impressive interactive effect, designers try to make the websites’ elements easier (white space, grid, subtle animation, minimizing content, wise use of colors, clear and easily readable typography, etc).

Take a look at the best Flash solutions performed in clean style.

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Business Flash CMS Design

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Black and Red Flash CMS Design

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Day & Night Flash CMS Template

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Light Flash CMS Template

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Clean Style Business Flash Template

Rich Typography

With strong use of grid based designs, the tendency of embedding some typography richness to websites became very popular in 2010. Web safe fonts have moved aside, the days of Tahoma, Arial, Verdana are almost over. Of course, they are still here but rich typography has been trendy this year.

Particularly, Moto CMS gives the opportunity to use any font the developer wants. In addition to the fonts already embedded into the control panel, there is an ability to integrate any font into the System and implement it in the website design. Take a look at some Moto Flash templates performed with the use of rich unusual fonts:

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Huge Vibrant Typography Flash Template

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Business 3D Flash CMS Template

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Stylish Business Flash Template

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Abstract Moto Flash CMS Template

Large Graphics

Large images in Flash designs are all the rage, since they grab the visitors’ attention in a split second and make a WOWing impression on them. It can be, for example, a single image on black or another color background, but if designed wisely, the page will have an effective and memorable look.

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Moto Flash CMS Portfolio

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Music Flash CMS Template

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Universal Flash CMS Template

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Universal Clean Style Flash Template

3D Galleries

In 2010 Flash developers surpassed themselves in creativity when designing galleries for image portfolios: spheres, cubes, waves, tunnels, and other gallery forms and bold designers’ ideas were realized in order to make Flash websites impressive and present the artists’ works in the most beneficial way. Papervision 3D was used widely in 2010 and was extremely popular. Beside stunning visual effects, the galleries have become more functional, more feature rich therefore more attractive for both photographers/artists that present their works online and their websites’ visitors.

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Cube-shaped Flash 3D Gallery

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Flash 3D Sphere-shaped Gallery

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Sinusoidal Flash 3D Gallery

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Flash 3D Tunnel Galleries

Dark Background

This trend came back in web design not long ago, and in 2010 it was on top of popularity. As for Flash, dark background works supremely well, because it can be perfectly combined with Flash content. It is unobtrusive and leaves the main focus on the website elements. It is used widely for Flash portfolios where the main idea is to grab the visitor’s attention by making them focus upon the artist’s/photographer’s works.

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Flash CMS Gallery with Slideshow Effect

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Stylish Business Flash CMS Template

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Music Flash CMS Template

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Interior Flash CMS Solution

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Business Flash Template With 3D Gallery

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Dark Style Flash CMS Template

Accordion Style Menu

This trend has taken the fancy of many users for its attractiveness and ease of use. The intuitive navigation of accordion style menus is really convenient. If a Flash website is CMS based, its owner can easily create as many menu sections and sub-sections as he needs as well as add stunning effects within the control panel thereby making the menu even more impressive visually.

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Business Template with Accordion Style Menu

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Dynamic Flash CMS Gallery

Conclusion

The main tendency of Flash website design – 2010 was combining aesthetical issues and functional aspects in Flash website development. As for 2011 web design tendencies, of course, the year will definitely bring us new ideas, but the above mentioned trends of 2010 are going to stay popular during the upcoming year. Nobody can say for sure in what direction Flash industry will develop in 2011, but we believe some inherent trends are going to stick around for a while. We mean a solid stable trends that are the foundation of the design industry and can only change their faces, but not the basics.

Happy New Year, dear readers! May the New Year bring you much happiness, health and prosperity! May this year end on cheerful note and make way for a better year!

Stay with us!

Your Moto CMS Team.

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Here is a quick look at some of the awesome new features added:

1. RSS Reader. Moto CMS Team presents a new widget – RSS Reader. This widget will let you read the RSS Feeds on the pages of your Moto CMS website. It’s really easy to use the widget – just add it to the stage and set the RSS Feed URL.

The widget is designed as a slot and has a lot of settings, with the help of which you can easily customize its look:
- It can be oriented either vertically or horizontally.
- You can set up the number of blocks to be displayed.
- Text, title and date format can be changed.
- You may even enable slideshow and specify the slideshow interval.
- You may also apply different animation effects.
- etc.

2. Batch Add option. Here is another cool feature you’ll be happy to know – Batch Add, available via Image Gallery module. It is developed to make adding new items to your website gallery much easier and faster. Now you don’t need to add items one by one, as the new option makes it possible to add multiple items simultaneously.

When working with your site gallery and clicking on the Add Items button, you will be able to choose as many items as you need (using CTRL or Shift keys) from your Media Library and add them to your gallery.

You can keep original size of the images or set the new dimensions. Resizing is especially useful when creating thumbnails. Two scaling modes are available – Fill and Fit. Fill mode will crop items to fill the image area with no empty space, Fit mode will resize items without cropping to display the whole image. Resized images can be put in a new folder.

3. Google Maps Module. The GMap module provides an interface to the Google Maps API within MotoCMS. It integrates with the Location module to provide users a clickable map for entering latitude and longitude. GMap can be used to create interactive maps with various map markers and content in map bubbles, taking advantage of MotoCMS other content management features.

As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, either using the contact form or participating at Moto CMS Forum. We hope you enjoy this update and let us know if you run into any issues.

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