Airtight Interactive has just published Simple Image Search, an excellent example of using Flash to create a better web application. AI decided to use Yahoo! image search instead of Google because of its easy-to-use API. The only functionality that’s missing from the Flash version is a way to go back to your previous search, but […]
People’s Choice Award
Favourite Website Awards have opened the voting for their People’s Choice Award. Man, am I jealous.
Alexa Goes Public to Programmers
Create your own search engine. Access and process huge amounts of web data on someone else’s system, then republish it in your own web service. The implications are limitless. Alexa has opened its Web Search Platform to the public. Wired News has a great article on the event.
DWebPro: Get Your Website On CD
Have you ever developed a dynamic server-driven website and wanted to distribute it offline on a CD-ROM? Often, I’ve had to reprogram an entire website in straight HTML to get it to work off of a CD. With DWebPro, this is a problem no more. DWebPro is a stand alone web server that supports virtually […]
FLY Pentop Computer
There’s some excellent use of the new Flash video capabilities at the FLY Pentop Computer website. And besides all the great Flash work, I want that toy!
How to Embed Google Maps
Ever wanted to have a Google Maps map on your website? Paul Stamatiou walks you through how to get a Google Map up and running and how to access the Google Maps API.
Yahoo! Mail Beta
Yahoo! Mail is offering a beta test of their new email system and it is awesome. This is by far the best free online email management I’ve seen. The new AJAX interface looks and feels like a real application, the design is clean, and the controls are very clear. This may be the deciding factor […]
Saab – Animal Vision
Here is a phenomenal use of Flash video. Saab has created their Animal Vision minisite, where the visitor must find the elusive lynx, while viewing stunning video of the Saab 9-5 Sedan and SportCombi parked in the middle of a haunting forest. It took me a while to figure out how they pulled this one […]
Browser Size Bookmarks
If you’re a web designer like me, you often want to preview what your site looks like at different sizes. Nicholas Roussos has provided a set of browser resize links that will automatically set your window to a popular screen size. Save these as a bookmark and you’ll always be able to quickly check your […]
The FWA
Well, now I know what I’ll be doing over the holidays: browsing through every single link at The Favourite Website Awards.