Archive for February, 2010
17
February
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.

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15
February
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.

screen2and one more

screen1Looks nice right? To download the template please follow this link and enjoy ;-) Hope you have lot’s of fun!

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12
February
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.

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