[flexcoders] Re: NEW FLEX WEBSITE: ManureMail.com
Ah my friend - ancient Chinese secret. Actually, neither ancient or Chinese Just just spaces in your text (yeah there's a little trial and error involved) and then plop down the link button. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think it looks great - but I'm curious how you put the link buttons right in the middle of the text -- is that built up or some secret htmlText trick? On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Randy Cooper wrote: Guys, I'd love to get your feedback on a new site I just launched built entirely in Flex. Thanks in advance for your comments. Randy Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.randycooper.net 678.799.0152
[flexcoders] Re: NEW FLEX WEBSITE: ManureMail.com
Brendan, DARN good question!!! 1) I wanted to build an entire site in Flex. Why? Same reason the guy climbed Everest - because it was there. 2) I had originally started the project in PHP and AJAX using a freebie template I'd found. Between getting bogged down in a mire of DIV tags and all kinds of issues setting up the checkout to go to authorize.net I finally had to give up on it for a while. (As you might guess manure doesn't pay the bills). Once I started with flex I was off to the races. 3) UI options galore! Without all of the AJAX/DIV/HTML nightmare associated with it. (Did I mention all of the IE vs. Firefox issues to test and deal with? 4) C'mon man! Flex is freaking cool! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious why you chose Flex for this site...? Brendan On 9/4/07, grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think it looks great - but I'm curious how you put the link buttons right in the middle of the text -- is that built up or some secret htmlText trick? On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Randy Cooper wrote: Guys, I'd love to get your feedback on a new site I just launched built entirely in Flex. Thanks in advance for your comments. Randy Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.randycooper.net 678.799.0152 -- Brendan Meutzner http://www.meutzner.com/blog/
[flexcoders] Re: NEW FLEX WEBSITE: ManureMail.com
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jayson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that you have digg and reddit and all those, do you have a method for handling url requests? How does the site your sending it to (digg for example) know which page it is being sent? or are you just sending manuremail.com? There is only one page - ManureMail.com I really like the end results of flex, it being interactive and all that, but search engines just dont pick it up like html(obviously). I thought that as well until I started poking around a little. Somewhere in the not too recent past, Google started doing full text indexing on flash based sites. No worries! Randy
Re: [flexcoders] Re: NEW FLEX WEBSITE: ManureMail.com
Randy, I second that sentiment! Flex kicks ass! I am still struggling with the 100% Flex site structure. Will it be too much out of the gate? Will users get turned off everytime they see a site using flash/flex, because so many developers are going to use it when there was no need for it? These are the unknowns. I think your site is a good example of having a Full Flex solution. Little site content, lots of data centric needs (eCommerce). Oh, the struggles of a web application developer. Tony Randy Cooper wrote: Brendan, DARN good question!!! 1) I wanted to build an entire site in Flex. Why? Same reason the guy climbed Everest - because it was there. 2) I had originally started the project in PHP and AJAX using a freebie template I'd found. Between getting bogged down in a mire of DIV tags and all kinds of issues setting up the checkout to go to authorize.net I finally had to give up on it for a while. (As you might guess manure doesn't pay the bills). Once I started with flex I was off to the races. 3) UI options galore! Without all of the AJAX/DIV/HTML nightmare associated with it. (Did I mention all of the IE vs. Firefox issues to test and deal with? 4) C'mon man! Flex is freaking cool! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious why you chose Flex for this site...? Brendan
Re: [flexcoders] Re: NEW FLEX WEBSITE: ManureMail.com
Yeah, That struggle was evident from the transition of MS DOS to Windows... Application centric internet/desktop IS the future, just depends on the road we take to get there. Peace, Mike On 9/6/07, Tony Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, I second that sentiment! Flex kicks ass! I am still struggling with the 100% Flex site structure. Will it be too much out of the gate? Will users get turned off everytime they see a site using flash/flex, because so many developers are going to use it when there was no need for it? These are the unknowns. I think your site is a good example of having a Full Flex solution. Little site content, lots of data centric needs (eCommerce). Oh, the struggles of a web application developer. Tony Randy Cooper wrote: Brendan, DARN good question!!! 1) I wanted to build an entire site in Flex. Why? Same reason the guy climbed Everest - because it was there. 2) I had originally started the project in PHP and AJAX using a freebie template I'd found. Between getting bogged down in a mire of DIV tags and all kinds of issues setting up the checkout to go to authorize.net I finally had to give up on it for a while. (As you might guess manure doesn't pay the bills). Once I started with flex I was off to the races. 3) UI options galore! Without all of the AJAX/DIV/HTML nightmare associated with it. (Did I mention all of the IE vs. Firefox issues to test and deal with? 4) C'mon man! Flex is freaking cool! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders% flexcoders%2540yahoogroups.com, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious why you chose Flex for this site...? Brendan -- Teoti Graphix http://www.teotigraphix.com Blog - Flex2Components http://www.flex2components.com You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the question'.
[flexcoders] Re: NEW FLEX WEBSITE: ManureMail.com
I have a question.. I see that you have digg and reddit and all those, do you have a method for handling url requests? How does the site your sending it to (digg for example) know which page it is being sent? or are you just sending manuremail.com? I really like the end results of flex, it being interactive and all that, but search engines just dont pick it up like html(obviously).
