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/

http://www.adomedya.com/

http://www.mm-estudio.es/

http://www.lineage2p.com/

All these flash websites were built using Aurora Free Flash Content Management System.

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.

THE DOWNOLA LINK

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this short video tutorial I want to show you how to change general look and feel of flash website created using auroraflash.  Here you will see how to change site title, site slogan, site logo and website background image. Also I will demonstrate how to add a sound track and enable auto playback mode. If something is not clear enough or you have some questions please let me know and I would be happy to assist you

Finally we have finished some legal documents allowing to use Aurora Templates for commercial purposes. In this short post I will be giving an overview of what you can do and what you can not do with Aurora site engine.

As we have stated before the product and all it’s components  is completely free for your personal use and in a couple of days we will share all Aurora source files. At the moment we are aware of 1000’s of the websites using our free site builder.

Besides that we got tons of  messages from flash developers all over the world(and especially India ) inquiring  if they can use our engine and WYSIWYG editor for their commercial needs. Mostly these “commercial needs” were absolutely the same. People just want to create professional flash templates compatible with our WYSIWYG editor and sell it at stock flash websites. And thats ok! We believe it’s a good idea and we are ready to support it as much as we can. To keep things easy we decided to create 2 types of license. One for custom projects and another for templates based projects aimed at massive sales.

Basic Commercial License(BCL) – 25 EURO per unit. This license allows you to create 1 website based on aurora flash engine and sell it to 1 customer. Minimal units amounts – 1 unit.

Extended Commercial License(ECL) – 150 EURO per 10 units. This type of licensing allows you to create flash templates and sell it to as many customers as you can get. Minimal units amount – 10 units.

Some happy customers:

www.layoutspack.com – templates membership website who boosted their sales after getting ECL.

www.flashcomponents.net – just another stock website where our customers sell Aurora based flash templates.