Flash or Silverlight? Which suits your needs the best?
Adobe Flash as you all know is in use for years now for designing any web applicaitons or content. With Silverlight1.0 released, there is a debate started in web developers on whether to choose Flash or Silverlight.
Even after release Silverlight is facing a difficulty in capturing the market because of the coverage of Flash present already. Still we cannot deny that there are some features in Silverlight like search engine optimization, which designers and developers wanted to see in Flash for so long.
Actually speaking, which technology to use mostly depends on your requirements, on what capabilities you need to develop your application etc.
Smashing Magazine has posted an article discussing the technical differences between Flash and Silverlight.
The articles concludes as:
| Features | Flash | Silverlight |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | better | |
| File Size | better | |
| Scripting | better | |
| Video/Audio | better | |
| Sound Processing | better | |
| Accessibility | better | |
| Platform Compatibility | better | |
| Text Representation/SEO | better | |
| Supported Image Formats | better | |
| Socket Programming | better | |
| Webcam Support | better | |
| Deployment | better | |
| Windows Application | better | |
| Media Streaming | better |
Check out this article and use appropriate technology which suits your needs and requirements.
Getting started with CSS
CSS is now an integral part of Web Design. Its almost a pre-requisite now to have a common knowledge about CSS to make your website look rich and clean. Its almost nothing impossible now to attain with CSS now.
Smashing Magaizne has posted an article on how to get started with CSS. It deals with some of the mostly used features, yet basic ones like:
- Padidng Vs Margin
- Floats
- Center Alignment
- Ordered & Unordered Lists
- Styling Headings
- Overflow
- Position etc...
This article helped me alot in understaning these concepts.
Hope this will be helpful to you as well...
40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Adobe Illustrator, as you all know is one of the vastly used Vector Designing tool. Though it not easy for beginners to start working on it, it needs a bit of practice and experience to enhance your vector designing skills.
Smashing Magazine has come up with some 40 Excellent Tutorials using which you can start practicing your design skills and can enhance them. You wont regret taking on these tutorials at all.
Even though some of these tutorials are simple, the tips they give can come in handy for you while you are designing something complex.
Enjoy these awesome tutorials....
65 Excellent Flash Designs
Adobe Flash has evolved from just Game Programming, dealing with Video playback to a most complete web technology, which can create any enriching visual experience that is not possible with HTML and CSS. Though Flash is not favourite medium for accessibilty and Usability, it has its own advantages in creating a highly interactive Web Content other than advetising and Games.
Smashing Magazine has a post which tell us about how to use nice graphics, content, designs and graphics motion in creating complete Web Portals. It has some best practices which designing any portfolio for your website. This has around 65 Flash Design examples.
Check them out....