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Free Counter Strike Gaming Template
3March 2010
We are happy to share free gaming template for Counter Strike clan which was so much expected by many visitors of our website. As always the template is XML driven and easy to update. You can edit all content pages in Aurora WYSIWYG editor, to make things SEO friendly we implemented SWFaddress 2.4 (please do not forget to copy all js files to make sure that full screen mode and site deep linking work). Ok that all, enjoy!
Download here
How To Make A Website. 4 Easy Steps For Beginners.
17February 2010
So you want to make a website, but where do you start? This article gives clear and comprehensive guide lines how to build a website free and fast. The tutorial was created specially for web design beginners and you wont need any special skills to get started.
Things you must have to create your own site are:
1. Site Plan
2. Domain Name
3. Web Hosting
4. Web design
Planning the website is one of the most important and crucial tasks. As soon as you have clear understanding of your website structure you have completed 50% of the task. Make sure you have all texts and images for ever page, don’t just jump into creating a site without clear vision of site map. Imagine that you are site visitor and thing about website usability. Thorough website planning will help you avoid many mistakes, will save lot’s of your time and keep you away from constant design alterations. If you have all site content ready – congrats! You can proceed to the next step.
Domain name really means. Some SEO experts believe that the domain name should contain the keywords which are critical for the promotion of your business. We hope they are right 
cause we named the domain “aurora flash” which is supposed to advertise the name of the product and associate it with Flash keyword. Also if you are non profit organization(like we are) it’s better to use .org extension. And of course if you are registering the domain name for business purposes we highly recommend to pay at least 3 years registration. After you are through with the domain you can proceed to web hosting. Most of web hosting companies sell both domain names and web hosting service. We highly unrecommend to use free web hosting services as they are extremely unstable. We do not advertise any of the companied, the only thing we want to say is choose a big and old company with good reputation. It’s much safer.
Finally we can proceed to web design. Choosing the design of your website is extremely important. Nowadays the net is full of free flash templates, free website templates and so on. Any of these templates will require some technical skills and definitely you will have to purchase a copy of Adobe Flash or Adobe Dreamweaver which is not cheap. One people say it’s easy to build a website in notepad, other may assure you there is nothing easier than building a website using Flash CS3. Both assumptions are false. You need serious web design experience and education both for HTML coding and Flash animation and programming. Sometimes I even believe that all free templates are created to assure the customer that the easiest way to make a website is to pay for professional design and customization service 
Anyway, a good solution we would like to offer you is AuroraFlash Site builder which allows you to make a website for free, without any special skills, without expensive software like Dreamweaver, Frontpage or Adobe Flash. But the final choice is yours.
How To Money With a Website. Sure if you have a website you would like to make some cash. There are dozens of ways to make cash online. The easiest are advertising and selling links from your site. I will tell more about this very important aspect in my next article.
Free Flash Gaming Template for WOW Clan.
15February 2010
We have some really good news for gamers. This free template for world of warcraft clan begins a set of free clan templates based on AuroraFlash Engine.
During this week we will add 4 more free game templates for Counter Strike Clans, Battle Field Clan, Call of Duty Clan and LineAge On line game clans. We got numerous messages from gamers all over the world willing to create clan websites. Specially for Russian funs of Red Alert Game we will publish top quality clan template(some of our developers spend too much time at their PlayStation Consoles instead of coding. As they say “computer games spoiled my life, it’s good I have 2 extra”).
Ok, so lets get back to the template. Here is a couple of screen shots that demonstrate this nice gaming website.
and one more
Looks nice right? To download the template please follow this link and enjoy Hope you have lot’s of fun!
1st Professional Aurora Template is Online.
12February 2010
Now we can boast we have professional flash themes created and distributed by 3rd parties developers. About 1 week ago Artin2ition added new XML flash template based on aurora engine to www.flashcomponents.net website, you can check it here . The template costs $15 which is pretty inexpensive. Also we are expecting some new templates appear at www.flashmint.com and www.flashscope.com .
As we reported earlier the 1st company who used our templates for the commercial purposes was LayoutsPack – templates membership website.
Right now we are continuing the process of simplifying aurora engine for less experienced flash developers and at the same time preparing cool free WOW Template.
Some Webistes Built With AuroraFlash Free CMS
25January 2010
Since we are not a commercial company we do not provide website customization service or custom design, but it does not mean we do not have some nice flash sites to boast People who use our Free Flash CMS Solution created a number of cool flash websites based on Aurora Site Builder. Here we collected a short list of websites who refer visitors back to our site. This means these websites are popular and visited by other web surfers. Once again I want to notice that these websites were not created by professional flash designers.
http://www.photography.plathe.eu
http://www.pyrokinesis.in/flash/
All these flash websites were built using Aurora Free Flash Content Management System.
Software Update
21January 2010
Hi everyone. We have a new release where we fixed a bunch of small bugs and a pretty big one related to external links.
Probably many of you have noticed(I know for sure you did cause we got tons of emails) that in the original templates there is a menu item linking to external site. But it was impossible to create one more similar menu item cause there was no proper dialog box for that. Now we have finally added it, so you can link to your friends or the resources you consider to be important.
The download link will be available in the evening. Also I want to share some secret information that Artin2ition has almost finished their first premium aurora template, we are expecting final release in a day or so. Also the architecture of the templates will be much simplified to allow less experienced flash developers create professional flash skins for Aurora CMS.
Aurora Website Structure.
19January 2010
In this short article I want to pay more attention to Aurora websites structure and the way they function. Understanding the way Aurora CMS works will help you to avoid possible mistakes while website development. The site builder consists of 4 main elements:
1. GUI or WYSIWYG Editor (allows to manage xml data feeds in visual mode and see how the changes take effect)
2. XML Data Feeds(used to store website data, main menu structure, pages content, email settings and so on. In fact you can edit them using any text editor if you want)
3. Website Core(it connects graphics elements with dynamic data and actually allows the site to function properly)
4. Website Graphics and Elements collected in theme.swf file(it is sort of a library that consists of all graphics elements, dynamic text fields, animations and effects used in the website). This part is the most important while templates development as it defines look and feel of flash website.
And another important component is “website preloader” which actually checks if all parts of the site builder were loaded in browser, also it handles errors. Right at the moment we are working on simplifying the structure in order to allow less experienced flash developers create their own aurora templates.
How To Make Photo Portfolio. Detailed Tutorial.
13January 2010
Recently we posted an article at blogspot.com describing how to create simple photo portfolio, the basis of the website was the design(premium theme) provided by LayoutsPack. These guys created nice flash website under BCL license and we just demonstrated how the photographers can use it for their own needs. Btw very soon Artin2ition will be posting professional aurora templates at flashcomponents.net Hope we all enjoy them.
How to Create Flash Gallery.
8January 2010
Flash Photo Gallery is pretty useful and popular component. Our flash site builder allows to create flash portfolio in a couple of clicks. This video tutorial shows how to build cool flash gallery using our xml templates and site CMS.
How to Create Text Pages Using Aurora Flash Site.
8January 2010
In this video manual page you will see how to create text pages using auroraflash editor. As you know you can create 3 types of flash text pages.
1 Single block text page
2. Horizontal double columns text page
3. Vertical double rows text page.
All these pages support HTML text formatting.