You might know already that TemplateMonster has launched a brand new After Effects Logo Reveals product line. Currently, we start receiving various massages to our support and marketing departments asking how these templates could be actually applied to video projects.This proceeding, we decided to make a showcase illustrating the use of spectacular Logo Reveals for miscellaneous world-known brands and campaigns. We hope this engaging round-up will give you some ideas when you have a go yourself.
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BlackBerry “Love What You Do”
(view full video presentation)
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Sony Handycam Comcoder
(view full video presentation)
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We’ve started posting our small tutorials for Adobe After Effects beginners – that in turn was inspired by the launch of After Effects Logo Reveal animations. Judging from the first post success you really like those tutorials so today we’re rolling out a new portion of them (not to mention the fact we’ve been planning to publish a second part from the very beginning).
And of course today we’re also sharing a nice little freebie in the end of the post. So make sure you stay with us and read the tutorials to get to the freebie. Here go the tutorials:
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Picture Breaking Into Pieces
(based on animation from Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries presentation)
- Create new composition 730х411, 5 sec, 30 fps, Square pixels
- Create a new layer
- Apply Trapcode Particular
- Place a picture that will be breaking into the composition and make this picture’s layer 3D. In the Particular settings set this layer as an Emitter
- Apply settings as shown below
(click the image to see in full size)
Being one of the most advanced CMS software for the years, Joomla! keeps holding first positions in this race competing mostly with WordPress and less with Drupal. There’re many people among our visitors and customers who just start their way with Joomla-powered site and they often ask us how to do the basic things with this CMS. That’s why we’ve decided to made a list of 12 Joomla 1.5 tutorials for newbies and hopefully the experienced users will find them interesting too.
1. Joomla 1.5 Tutorial – Adding Articles and Menu Items
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2. How To Install VirtueMart On Joomla!
You may have heard we’ve recently launched these beautiful After Effects Logo Reveals – the most dynamic way for you to display your corporate logo in any kind of video or animation. So we assume not all of you know exactly just how awesome Adobe After Effects is as a software. That is why our video professionals have prepared a couple of basic After Effects tutorials on how to work with After Effects so you could see how simple and efficient it is.
Now please welcome the first of two portions of basic Adobe After Effects tutorials, plus a bonus in the end of the post.
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Particles Flowing Around the Sphere
In these tutorials we use third-party plugin Trapcode Particular 2.
- Create a new composition 512х288, 4 sec, 30 fps, Square pixels
- Create a new layer
- Apply Trapcode Particular
- Apply settings like this:
To find good stuff for your online project is not a complicated task, especially when you visit our blog frequently. Today we have decided to encourage web designers for new innovations by presenting all of you Monday’s freebie – Free Website Template for Business Company.
The success of a project can be attributed to the good starting point – catchy website template that can present the idea of the project in the clear and comprehensible way. It is quite obvious that a good website template is half the way in this case. This Free Website Template for Business Company suggests thought-out design and professional layout and can be of the immense value for the online business project that you are going to start.
Let’s check it! Free Website Template for Business Company:
As you remember, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. If you need only HTML source files, download them from this post (just click on the image above and save the ZIP file). To get PSD source files visit the TemplateMonster free website template download page 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. Don’t wait until inspiration comes, download this Free Website Template for Business Company just now!
Download free business website template with PSD files (22,9 MB)
Download free business website template without PSD (290KB)
You all know TemplateMonster is always on the edge of the coolest things available on the Internet, right? Well, we’ve just got even better with the next coolest thing – please welcome our new Video Templates family!
The first part of this awesome new product family is familiar to some of you – we’re talking about the After Effects intros that previously were available under the Flash Intro type. But since they’re just too cool for Flash (not to mention they’re not quite Flash) we decided to move them into a type more appropriate and relevant.
And luckily for us, our video professionals have started producing another awesome video product – the After Effects Logo reveals which present company logos in the most spectacular and dynamic way possible. So having a whole lot of two video products it became so much obvious for us that we can now start a new product family. That’s pretty much how our Video Templates were born.
So about this new product again – After Effects logo reveals are basically animated logos. We’re sure you have seen something like this in fancy ads or presentations when a big company’s logo appears out of nowhere and the crowd goes like “WOW!” and all that. Well, no one can stop the progress and with this new product from TemplateMonster your company can also have this sort of animated logo for whatever media purposes you can imagine – whether video ads, company presentations, website intros etc.
What do you guys think of this new product? Would you like to have your intro animated this way?
In this round-up we’ve pulled together some of the most ingeniously designed navigation menus that allow for a highly creative way to explore deep into a website’s sections and levels. We’ve compiled navigation menus that do not look or function like common websites. This actually can have more influence on visitors’ affection for the website since they find it interesting and unusual to get around it.
While the purpose of navigation is to endow some structure and to develop precise and easy hover, here are in fact no set rules – such intuitive navigations just float freely within the content effectively guiding every visitor around the website. It typically has a positive impact on the outcome of each particular design. Coming with spectacular and super creative hovering, the following navigations provide a unique searching experience and surely add some visual appeal to the web page layout. So then, if you’ve already got excited, let the showcase commence now to see how designers have accomplished many different types of bold and attention-grabbing menus. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Conceptm.nl
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Jonesingfor.com
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For all music fans and all those who are death on music beats we present today’s freebie – Free HTML5 Website Template for Music Site. If you are keen on music and want to share your passion with everyone, here is a good chance to do it.
We continue creating free HTML5 templates and we are proud to present you the new one. You all know about the advantages of this new markup language and we try our best to offer you more and more high-grade products. So, today it is Free HTML5 Website Template for music site and you are welcome to use it for your online projects that deal with the music sphere. Try it and create the web presence that will rock everyone!
Free HTML5 Website Template for Music Site:
To download HTML source files of this template, just click on the image above. If you need PSD source files, 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 (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template. Download this Free HTML5 Website Template for music site and enjoy the rhythms of music with everyone!
Download Free HTML5 Website Template with PSD files (14,6 MB)
Download Free HTML5 Website Template without PSD (844KB)
It is fairly right that contact form is an integral part of many websites since it saves a lot of time and makes it extremely easy for site visitors to contact you directly. Still, creating website contact forms is sometimes a very tedious work if you don’t have the right tools and are not familiar with PHP programming. This hurdle can be easily overcome with the help of online form generators which will help you design your own contact form and, by putting a script, embed this professionally looking form anywhere in your website.
There are many free options from which you can create a contact form for your website. The services usually offer both free service plans with less features and the paid ones which will remove the limitations and offer extra features. In this round-up, you’ll find the range of 15 free contact form services that allow you to create contact forms easily even without knowing much about PHP programming. Note that some of them may additionally have advanced premium options that actually require a monthly fee. Now please, go through this quick review of the main free contact form creators. Let us know your opinions of those in case you’ve had a chance to work with some of them before.
1. WuFoo
WuFoo HTML form builder not only helps you create free contact forms, but also online surveys and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without having to fuss with a single line of code. When you design a form with WuFoo, it automatically builds the database, back-end, and scripts needed to make it just work. Plus, there are lots of features, including predefined forms, html form templates, Likert scales, Captcha, and there’s no need to worry about any upgrades or server configuration, because they host everything. As for the cons, there are no file uploads and the submissions are limited to 100.
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2. Kontactr
Kontactr is a one-click free contact form service which offers highly secure contact form to protect user’s email address. Actually, there’s an image verification system applied (captcha – which is a commong thing about contact forms these days), so that robots cannot submit using the contact form as only humans can recognize the images. Kontactr also provides a variety of tools to embed various forms, buttons, and widgets to be used on the website.
We are happy to announce that FlashMoto.com, which name is on every developer’s lips, has finally released Version 1.2 of its powerful Flash content management system. Now working with FlashMoto CMS gets much faster, easier and more convenient.
For those of you who are not familiar with FlashMoto yet, it is a complex website creation solution for developing interactive, media-rich Flash websites. FlashMoto is an advanced, flexible and SEO-friendly Flash CMS that enables users to update Flash content just on the fly. FlashMoto can be used either as a standalone version or together with the ready-made Flash CMS templates that are available at TemplateMonster. By the way, these Flash CMS templates have already been updated to the version 1.2. The existing FlashMoto users that have purchased FlashMoto templates earlier will be able to download the latest version just right from the Flash CMS control panel following all necessary instructions.
You will be pretty excited with new functionality, as FlashMoto v.1.2 includes dozens of major features and improvements. Here is a sneak peek of them:
- Control Panel Rebranding. This feature allows users to remove all references concerning FlashMoto and replace FlashMoto logo with your own. From now you may sell the product under your own name.
- Under Construction Mode. The “Under Construction” mode activates a placeholder web page while your website is under maintenance. If the mode is enabled, “Under Construction” page will appear instead of your website home page, but you still will be able to edit and preview your website.
- Website FavIcon. Now FlashMoto users have the ability to set a favicon for their websites just right through the convenient control panel.
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