Here are some screenshots from my example tutorial of integrating Flash with google analytics event tracking showing actionscript to use for event tracking in flash . To get to your Event Tracking Reports (once it is enabled) you just click on the Content section in the nav list and then Event Tracking drilldown will give [...]
Many have read my Integrate Google Analytics with Flash Tutorial in which I express enthusiasm for the new event tracking at google analytics! Well, it’s been a while, but I was admitted to the Beta testing group! So I’ve now had the chance to play with event tracking a bit and wanted to publish my [...]
I’ve re-purposed an old project of mine, the interactive pog portfolio viewer, to activeden. I call it the pog portfolio because each work is represented by a circle, or pog, and you play ith it in the “bay” with different interactive physics configurations. When you click a pog you can view a close up image [...]
I’ve been given the all-clear to spill the beans on this insane offer that StomperNet has cooked up. You can get StomperNet’s expert SEO Video Course, “Stomping the Search Engines 2″… for FREE. All you need to do is just TRY their new monthly printed Action Journal called “The Net Effect” – and guess what?… [...]
StomperNet‘s Scrutinizer has recieved some updates! New help documentation Keyboard Shortcut Functionality saving a screenshot bookmarking a page toggling the visualization toggle auto-zoom Aesthetic improvements Performance optimizations Improved auto-update. If you’re wondering what the heck StomperNet‘s Scrutinizer is: What is it? The Scrutinizer is a web browser, based upon the Adobe AIR toolkit and the [...]
As you may have heard today Adobe released Astro, Flash Player 10 Beta! Highlight Features: Create Custom Filters and Effects (with Pixel Blender) Performance Boosts (GPU blitting and compositing) Drawing API Enhancements Vector Data Types New Highly Flexible Text Engine 3D Support and Effects Automatic Variable Bitrates for video streams Larger Bitmap Support Better File [...]
As announced, the Free IQ Media Player now incorporates Google Analytics with it’s custom flash video player. Simply put, users may upload their own content (or even use anyone else’s content that is on Free IQ), embed it on their own sites and then view the tracking/logging/usage/analytics/metrics it their own Google analytics account. You don’t [...]
From the community… people I saw quickly but didn’t get to attend their session: Renaun showed off his voip app Pacifica, Zach from Yahoo showing some things available with Yahoo Maps AS3 API, Adam talking about Merapi where you can access Java from AIR apps and Joe showed us some awesome music app he’s working [...]
Johnny Boursiquot – AIR Infrastructure to manage licensing maintenance and monetization of AIR apps This is important information as more and more apps ar looking at using AIR to make apps. Discussion on how he’s deployed for large corporations including Avaya, Honeywell, Seagate and others. We need to be thinking about how to license the [...]
Matt Chotin – Keynote Review: The big announcement! Air 1 and Flex 3 are here! And what more Flex has gone open source, well done! And I can’t continue without mentioning Matt’s Flex Flex Behind the Scenes Video John Mason – FlexUnit and Unit Testing John talked about his FusionLink and TDD (test driven development). [...]
Here are my slides for my WordCamp Atlanta presentation, From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin: PSD to WP on Prezi
I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Atlanta this year! WordCamp will be held this weekend and hosted at SCAD Atlanta! My session is titled: From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin. Obviously, I’ll be focusing on themes. We’ll look at what they are, what they can do, how [...]
Zero images is something that always gets me excited, I really like these arrow button styles! I like the css used more and the hover/active states too, nice css3 transitions. via Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks.
After playing with the settings in my experiments I found a few settings I liked and wanted to develop further. The first was snow! An added bonus I was able to work on a project just for the holidays and used much of this code in it! I looked around the web and saw a [...]
Mat discusses the options for getting responsive images along with responsive designs. We can use various means (server-side, client-side, mobile-first, html5 data attributes, cookies…), but none are fully satisfactory, especially with new browsers prefetching images before cookies can be set or html is even fully read and parsed. He states that bandwidth sniffing is… a [...]
Here’s a great article about the process of responsive design & mobile first design and how to practically use them both in a project. This site is a proof of concept for many of the ideas described in Rethinking the Mobile Web or (Mobile First Responsive Design). via Yiibu – About this site….
Here’s a great tool to make responsive grid layouts. Thanks to Erskine Labs! Introducing Gridpak | Erskine Labs.
Here’s a great little script I found useful today as I was working on having dynamic effects applied to javascript via canvas. “The canvas element provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” Thanks to the canvas APIs I was [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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