I just learned how to apply blur filter from with Actionscript 3 from this easy-to-follow tutorial.
If you’re using the tween class in your Actionscript, most likely you’ll use easing and it can be frustrating not knowing the options that are available to you.
Luckily Adobe makes it available to us, but you have to dig around to find it. Here is the link to that list for your reference.
Lee Brimelow from Adobe wrote the following simple tutorial that teaches us how to load XML to Flash with Actionscript 3.
It’s really easy to follow, but to make it work,you need to change the following line:
xml = new XML(e.target.data);
with
var xml:XML = new XML(e.target.data);
A really cool tutorial on creating gradient text fill using css from one of my favorite blogs: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-gradient-text-effect/
is to turn information into experience.
Prompted by a reminder about the approaching tax season, I made sure that my contact info at my brokerage is up-to-date.
One of the area that I had to fill in was phone numbers. For every required field, there was a red asterisk next to the field name. That red asterisk was next to the “home phone” field which means that the designer who created this page assumed that everyone has a home phone.
That assumption might be true 5-10 years ago, but not anymore. I haven’t had a home phone since 2003 and I don’t think that will change anytime soon. When was the last time you asked for a home number from a friend?
Design is intended for human. It needs to adapt to the way people use it. The example above shows how the contact info form becomes less relevant (and create confusion for users)because of the phone field.
Recently, I set up my t-shirt store at printfection (http://www.printfection.com/dannys).
It allows me to upload my design and have my own store without having to worry about inventory and shipping. So far I’m pretty happy with the store. There are some UI elements that could be improved, but overall, it works well.
One particular element that caught my attention is a status div layer that shows up when a user uploads an image. That div layer says that uploading images may take a few minutes depending on the size of the image bla bla bla… and then at the bottom it says “This is Normal”.
I think that’s a smart thing to do to comfort their users, who like most web users, would get antsy if they don’t get any feedback after few seconds elapse.