If dealing with web content built in Flash, we have the ability to control when the content loads and how long will it take to appear. And what we see before the main page of a Flash site launches is a preloader which is a custom-built animation or graphic progress indicator that precisely informs the viewer that content is being loaded into the Flash player. It is usually made truly attractive to engage the site visitors or keep them occupied while Flash animation emerges in the background.
Flash preloaders vastly range in functionality and design. They can brighten up the waiting time treating users with animation, images, or sound effects and grabbing their attention right at the preloading stage. Often, the preloader fits to the overall design of the website and works as a teaser for the upcoming content. Actually, Flash preloaders should be given a lot of consideration, probably as much as to the rest of the site content, since overlooking this element in Flash projects could adversely affect the bounce rates of the website. In fact, searching for Flash preloaders that work effectively and correctly could be quite frustrating. So, hang around to see our today’s roundup for we managed to compose the list of creative preloaders on Flash websites. You can browse through them and get better equipped with fresh ideas when dealing with site preloader on your own.
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Yesmiss.it
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Pienozvaigzdes.lt
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Alright fellas, it’s a big day for all TemplateMonster community because it is today that we’re officially launching the Milestone Template, as we call it! It’s the 30,000th product in our templates collection and we’re so damn proud of ourselves! And of course since it’s such a big day we’re happy to announce a promo dedicated to a Milestone Template launch, we’re sure you’re gonna love it because it’s about getting Template Monster coupon to grab some freebies from us. We’ll get back to this promo later in the post, now let’s take a closer look at the 30,000th template itself.
This Milestone product is a Flash CMS template (maybe it’s a coincidence but most likely it’s not, since each and every FlashMoto template is TemplateMonster’s dearest offspring). But being a FlashMoto-powered product is not the only awesome thing about this template. What’s also interesting is that it is made with Papervision3D engine which means it has spectacular 3D effects. How cool is that, huh?
Now about that promo we’ve mentioned earlier. We’ve also mentioned that it’s about getting free products with Template Monster promo code. Today and tomorrow (that’s 10th and 11th of August) every person that makes any purchase at TemplateMonster will be able to choose a present out of our corporate design product types (they include PowerPoint Templates, Logo Templates, Corporate Identity Templates, Logosets and Iconsets, over 3,000 products in total). Here’s how you’ll be able to get the freebie after a regular purchase at TemplateMonster:
- You will receive a gift certificate code on the email address you use for your TemplateMonster purchase.
- Copy that certificate code and proceed to TemplateMonster website.
- Choose the corporate design product you would like to download for free.
- Add this product to cart and paste the gift code you’ve copied from a message earlier to a proper field on the shopping cart page (after that you should see that the price of the product you’ve chosen is $0).
- Proceed to checkout and complete your order details (please note that there will be no payment options section on that page, which once again proves that you don’t pay for the present).
- Press the “Proceed” button. After that you’ll receive a delivery link that you can use for downloading your free product from TemplateMonster.
Well, this is it folks, that’s how the freebie machine works. Now go ahead and use it yourself, just make sure you complete it all on time as the promo expires tomorrow at 11:59 pm. Congratulations once again! By the way, you may want to know the other ways on how to get TemplateMonster coupon – all the related info is featured in our Promocodes Section.
Hey guys, today we’re offering you a Free HTML5 Website Template for your online portfolio. This theme is a mixture of what you would expect to find in a good HTML5 website template – it provides catchy layout and the most important features of HTML5 markup language. Using it you will be able to cover most of your creative work and devote much attention to its central points.
Here’s a couple of things you may want to know about this free template this Free HTML5 Website Template:
- It is HTML5 validated;
- The list of galleries in the header is done using script “tabs.js” ;
- The gallery with faded effect is created using the “jquery.faded.js” script;
- Browser Compatibility: FF 3.6 +, Opera 10.5 +, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+, IE6+.
Well, and here is Free HTML5 Website Template:
To get PSD source files of this template, visit the Free HTML5 Website Template download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to. Feel free to use this template for your business, but not for commercial purposes (this means you cannot resell it – either before of after customization). Don’t hesitate and download this Free HTML5 Website Template!
Download free HTML5 website template with PSD files (34,8 MB)
Download free HTML5 website template without PSD files (2,0 MB)
For those of you guys who have purchased one of our After Effects Video products or have just had a chance to work with Adobe After Effects software it won’t be a big secret that the render speed influences the entire process of creating video effects.
Rendering is an essential operation that you have to perform to finalize your work in After Effects. So, we’ve decided to share the experience gathered by TemplateMonster video professionals and support team and provide you with some useful tips that will help you increase the rendering speed (based on the official help info from Adobe). These suggestions will save your time, money (because a) time is money and b) you won’t need powerful hardware) and improve your general After Effects skills as well. So, let’s start.
1. Improve Performance Before Starting After Effects
- Make sure that you’ve installed the current version of After Effects, including any available updates. To check for and install updates, choose Help > Updates from the top menu in After Effects.
- Make sure that you’ve installed the latest versions of drivers and plug-ins, especially video card drivers. To download updates for drivers and plug-ins, go to the provider’s website.
- Quit applications that are not necessary for your work. This may include some applications that start automatically when the operating system starts.
- Make sure that your system includes a display card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or later. Though After Effects can function without it, OpenGL accelerates various types of rendering, including rendering to the screen for previews
- Adjust the size of the virtual memory paging file (Windows only). Virtual memory enables the system to use hard disk space to store information normally stored in RAM. Windows manages virtual memory using a paging file. To improve performance in After Effects, adjust the size of the paging file to a maximum of twice the amount of installed RAM—the default in Windows XP.
- Defragment all hard disks regularly. See the documentation for your operating system for details.
- Make sure that your system has enough RAM. Optimum performance is achieved with computer systems with at least 2 GB of installed RAM per processor core. See the documentation for your operating system and computer for details on how to check the amount of installed RAM and how to install RAM.
- Stop or pause resource-intensive operations in other applications, such as video previews in Adobe Bridge.
- When possible, keep the source footage files for your project on a fast local disk drive. If your source footage files are on a slow disk drive (or across a slow network connection), then performance will be poor. Ideally, use three fast local disk drives: one for source footage files, one from which the application runs, and one for rendered output.
2. Improve Performance By Simplifying Your Project
By simplifying and dividing your project, you can prevent After Effects from using memory and other resources to process elements that you are not currently working with. Also, by controlling when After Effects performs certain processing, you can greatly improve overall performance. For example, you can avoid repeating an action that needs to happen only once, or you can postpone an action until it is more convenient for you.
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Well, we have spotted these days that circles have a large sphere of influence on web design trends. Graphic symbols definitely add some specificity to every design, but it seems to be all the rage now to throw out exactly circular-logic shapes in design pieces. Quite possible it is connected with the fact that subconsciously circles are associated with the communication. Being rather simple, memorable, and complete, round symbol tunes in for mutual understanding. In this showcase we’ve circled the excellent designs that make use of the round shape in many creative ways, presenting navigation menu, background elements or image galleries. Many designs, as seen in the examples below, have their logo round, usually with a slogan or a name in it. Sometimes circles are used in an effective and eye catching way to convey a particular company concept or idea. There are lots of ways possible. As for TemplateMonster designs, we wish as well share our love for circles showing you the range of templates made by our designers. Those examples are simply incredible and fantastic. So, you can go ahead now and browse this well-rounded list spotting web designs with sexy round details. Let’s get it instantly covered.
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Siteinspire.net
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If your project has the same look for a long period, the time to renovate it comes one day and today you are welcome to do it with our freebie – Free Business Website Template. Monday is the excellent time to start something new, or bring a new look to something already existing and we will help you not to miss this chance. Today we offer you a nice opportunity to start your online business and make this start undoubtedly successful.
So, if you have been looking for a good solution for your project, here it is. Elegant and thought-out design of this template goes along with the high level of its execution. Before your start, have a look at this Free Business Website Template:
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz on the web about HTML5, so we started wondering about the actual cases of its implementation. We already know that HTML5 markup language, with its new and powerful features for both developers and end users, is already used to code websites around the world (check out the previous blog entry about 70 Spectacular HTML5 Websites). Now we think you may want to get the learning experience and feedback from those people who have started creating awesome websites using HTML5 and who learned how to harness a great deal of the cutting-edge technology HTML5 has to offer. Read the qualified testimonials we have gathered for you and see what HTML5 website owners have to say about this markup language. They will discuss the fundamental aspects of HTML5 and its real-life use to break down all the prejudices that mastering a language like HTML5 can be intimidating. So here’s what they have to say:
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I’ve been interested in creating semantic markup since I started creating websites about 7 years ago. I became aware of the HTML5 movement and started to understand a bit more through the draft specification. It was quickly obvious that HTML5 was going to be a great leap forward for semantics. The new elements were more relevant to sites that I was creating and made my markup more concise and readable. Like many developers I had been using things like <div id=”nav”> and <div id=”footer”> so it was easy to make the switch to the new HTML5 elements. I’d say for a competent HTML author making the switch to using HTML5 markup is not a big learning curve.
Subsequent to my initial explorations it became clear that HTML5 was not just about semantics. In particular the video, audio, and canvas elements mean that third party plugins like Flash and Silverlight won’t be needed in the future. This is really exciting for anyone interested in open standards. Add in microdata, aria attributes, new form types, and 2D/3D drawing, and there are quite a lot of new toys to explore.
HTML5 is just one part of new possibilities available in the front-end stack though. Browsers are now more capable with both CSS3 and JavaScript APIs, so it is a really exciting time to be a front end developer. Thinking back to when I started out, I’m really excited about what we can do now and how far the standards movement has progressed. It is a good time to be a front end developer!
– George Ornbo
Featured HTML5 project: Shapeshed.github.com
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At GANDR, we like to pretend that we’re a few steps ahead of the game and to do this we have to keep experimenting with new technologies. There’s no better place to experiment than on your own website. We chose HTML5 because we’re obsessive about descriptive HTML tags and really clean markup. HTML5 takes this descriptive HTML obsession to a new level with elements like header, nav, sections, articles, aside, etc. Working with this markup language was fairly easy thanks to resources like HTML5 Doctor, Dive into HTML5, and the scary-but-helpful W3C HTML5 Spec.
– Garrett Winder
Featured HTML5 project: Gandrweb.com
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The new post in this category signifies the new template– Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II – that is presented as our tribute to the launch of the widely popular StarCraft II. This template provides a striking layout that features the most vivid characteristics of the game such as you would hope to receive for such kind of a site.
You can start StarCraft fansite and make a strong and prominent step to the world of StarCraft and all its fans. While creating a website with this template you’ll be able to cover most of the StarCraft II topics that would be considered central and you’ll get a nice place to talk about your favorite game and follow its latest news. We hope that our interest in this game and yours coincide and this theme will become of a great use for you.
We are delighted to present this new Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II!
Note that there are 3 variants of header in this theme, so you can you can switch them from the WordPress 3.0 admin when it is needed.
The template is based on Twenty Ten theme made by WordPress team, you will notice that class names and structure are similar. It comes with 2 plugins: Cufon, the plugin to show titles and menu with StarCraft font and NextGEN, gallery plugin for screenshots page. You may see this free theme in action on our WordPress 3.0 live demo page.
To get this free website template with PSD source files visit the Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to. Feel free to use this template for your business, but not for commercial purposes (this means you cannot resell it – either before of after customization). Deep yourself in the fascinating world of StarCraft, get this theme just now!
Download Free WordPress 3.0 Theme for StarCraft II with PSD files (30 MB)
Currently the HTML5 technology has come into the extensive spotlight. Being the most discussed web trend these days, this major revision of HTML is aimed at revolutionizing and streamlining the way web developers create websites. Though there are some ongoing specifications of HTML5, this markup language currently offers diverse great features and benefits to develop brilliant forms, new canvas elements, readable codes, and semantically meaningful layouts. Plus, it is now fully possible to get moving with video which is an absolutely significant option.
In fact, there’s already a widespread use of the ultramodern HTML5. Upon our exploration, we’ve found the awesome variety of working sites using HTML5 markup language and so we’re going to list 70 best ones down in this blog entry to provide the examples of how it is possible to use HTML5 today. Make sure, these websites render correctly all the beneficial properties HTML5 embraces. If you wish to join the ranks of the fortunate HTML5 websites owners, TemplateMonster could substantially help you – just browse the wonderful assortment of our HTML5 Templates and find your very own HTML5 design to develop the clean and elegant website.
Alternatively, you can check out other articles in which we compiled 12 excellent HTML5 eBooks for web professionals and 30 brand new HTML5 tutorials of summer 2011. In addition, our friends from DesignFloat have also published a compilation of 50 HTML5 websites showcasing the HTML5 best capabilities.
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Cumbriaglassfusing.co.uk
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Cameronchamberlain.com
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Some of you may remember that some time ago our blog has published a lot of jQuery-related content (such as for example 15 jQuery Plugins for WordPress, jQuery Navigation Solutions and jQuery Portfolio Solutions) that still remains very popular judging from the constant traffic. But since that time a lot of new interesting jQuery stuff appeared out there and we couldn’t resist the temptation to share these new goodies with you. Not to mention that sometimes it is hard to find that exact jQuery plugin that you need because of a huge number of those plugins, and hopefully our new list will help you in this.
For those of you that don’t know much about this technology we’ll just mention that jQuery plugins will not just help you enhance the functionality of your website but will also enable you to easily create some stunning effects on your website. Besides, you may want to know that TemplateMonster has a huge product category of jQuery templates equipped with tons of jQuery tricks – all spectacular and dynamic as hell! 
Don’t forget that to properly view these jQuery plugins you will need to install JavaScript plugin to some browser versions. Well, enough of talking – time to get to these awesome plugins!
1. Dual Slider
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2. Footer Plugin
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