Web Design,digital advertising, motion design and interactive design. Enjoy—and check back often, because things are always changing, growing and evolving.noreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:16:19 -0700Blogger http://www.blogger.com91125http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/en-usnoWeb Design,digital advertising, motion design and interactive design. Enjoy—and check back often, because things are always changing, growing and evolving.Web Design,digital advertising, motion design and interactive design. Enjoy—and check back often, because things are always changing, growing and evolving.noreply@blogger.comhttp://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-blog-has-moved-brand-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:47:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-132316446906899234Find out about web design from New York City here.5http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-bound-marketing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:44:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-400790118033837319Find the people who are already looking for what you are talking about or offering.In-bound marketing.In the past marketing was solely placed around TV and radio, newspaper ads and HTML emails— these forms of marketing really hit people over the had with your marketing message. These old school way of marketing are becoming more and more less effective due to TiVO, spam filters, DVR, and 26http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/strengthen-empower-amplify.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:21:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-6356283146292826859Strengthen. Empower. Amplify.We are living in transformative times. Social media influences mind decisions...there is more persistence of information...now opinions are out in the world on an exponential scale. Leveraging those opinions and gaining loyalty for your brand or small business, when done positively, will surely boost sales and business potential.Respond out loud (blog) if your good 1http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/ive-do-it10000-visitors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:44:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-8306735692216216721So...the first milestone to reach more customers online.I reached 10,000 visitors in one (1) month.flash design new york1http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/another-social-media-blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:37:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-9140031610270178372Social marketing is a good way to get free publicity for your company or brand. It's where the consumers and the brands meet and can have a dialogue instead of just a static message.Marketing organizations need to ensure they are not reactive to change but driving and leading change in a proactive way. Social Media allows your company to react more quickly to what people are saying or how they 4http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/5-simple-starter-tips-for-seo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:28:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-1785714683048126739These days there are so many articles on how to improve your web site traffic with Search Engine Optimization techniques. I found this one very simple as well as useful for starters:http://www.webdesign.org/article.php?id=166930http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/online-video-in-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:11:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-8246287253021857785here's a great list from Webpronews.com about online video in the past year.view the web page now0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/web-30.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:32:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-16723045328344021Source : Marta Strickland (paraphrased)I have Bold-ed the semantic information in this postWhat the Semantic Web -- or Web 3.0 -- Can Do for MarketersWhatever You Call It, Get Ready for Greater RelevanceIt's been nearly 10 years since Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with inventing the worldwide web, expressed his vision of a "semantic web," in which all web data -- and the meaning of that data -0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/keep-up-compelling-content.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:09:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-8330897398065754754Yes, there are some challenges that we face when entering web 2.0 space.For instance over saturation; it seems that once a platform like 'My Space' or 'Face Book' becomes a popular space to offer content, it then becomes flooded with useless content, eventually being abandoned by marketers and on to the next digital arena.The battle on the internet is not to provide the most novel campaign 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/gim-crack-widget.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:21:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-3817314970553693171Branded widgets are the refrigerator magnets of the Brave New World. These compact, portable little software apps -- from video players to countdown clocks to makeup simulators -- are inexpensive to distribute, free to the user and (often enough) distinctly useful. At a minimum, they carry an ad message wherever they go.That's at a minimum. At a maximum, the widget is something like the magical 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/adobe-flash-catalyst.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:57:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-5502633810352873176Adobe now makes it easier for designers with no programming experience to design interactive prototypes, and communicate their interactive ideas to the developers.http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-docs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:44:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-1058968031397188188http://docs.google.com/templates?type=forms&sort=hottest&view=public0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-analytics-tracks-flash-content.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:04:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-2627597954061053696Flash content has long posed a lot of problems for the search and webmaster communities. Now Google – and more specifically, the newly introduced Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash – intends to solve at least a few of them.“In the past, Flash tracking was not provided out of the box, and every implementation had to be customized,” notes Nick Mihailovski in a post on the Google Analytics 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/adobe-flash-video-and-dynamic-streaming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:57:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-7289237551529748571Coming from Adobe in Spring 2009:Adobe Systems is adding dynamic streaming, which adjusts to the bandwidth rate on the desktop, and DVR capability to its Flash Media Server for streaming of Flash content.Dynamic streaming allows for adjustments to the delivery bit rates for video. It will adjust upward for higher quality bandwidth and downward for lower bandwidth.This capability maintains the 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/using-social-media-to-drive-traffic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:16:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-4016144098916796561Question: What is viral adevrtising?Answer: When consumers like what they see, they pass it on ...like a virus.SMO, or Social Media Optimization, helps build website traffic by using social media based websites. The dawning of web 2.0 has seen many different social media websites crop up in an equally large number of different guises. Content sharing, social bookmarking, and collaborative 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-android-phone-is-here-with-t.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:47:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-7782075091307636732This week, Google unveiled the fruits of its partnership with T-Mobile and its fledgling operating system Android with the G1, a new handset from manufacturer HTC.The 3G smartphone with sliding keyboard and a limited touch interface integrates multiple Google products like Maps and Mail in ways no phone has before, incorporating things like Street View in Maps and a linked phone-web calendar to 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-adds-enterprise-version.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:26:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-3160700595138116143Google on Wednesday unveiled several new business-oriented capabilities for its Web analytics service, Google Analytics.The new features include Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export application programming interface (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multidimensional data visualizations called "Motion Charts," and interface 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/flash-cs4-from-flash-den.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:30:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-2615944690930895008In their first full-cycle release since acquiring Macromedia you don’t have to be a detective on CSI Miami to see Adobe’s fingerprints all over Flash CS4. In a live product demonstration broadcast on Adobe TV this morning we got to see a preview of the direction Adobe will be going with Flash and it’s all about seamless integration.check out the new features from ADOBE hereOne of the first things0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/adobe-ships-flash-player-10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:43:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-6847389590288868204Adobe Systems Inc. began shipping its Adobe Flash Player 10 browser plug-in Wednesday with new features aimed at helping designers and developers build interactive content and online videos.This version of Flash, which Adobe launched in a beta version in May, includes support for custom filters and special effects, native 3-D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing and GPU 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-bloggers-new-features.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 2 Sep 2008 05:03:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-2310872719738881727Google's Blogger is unleashing some new features to make blogs using the platform more social. They will be rolling out these features over the next several weeks.They want bloggers to be able to view the people that read their blogs, and will provide a gadget allowing users to display those people on the actual blogs. The way they are accomplishing this is through a "Follow this Blog" link that 1http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/4-types-of-links.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 2 Sep 2008 04:52:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-1611098698356108812Links are an important component in an online marketing campaign. Websites usually need a significant number of quality links to perform well in organic search rankings. Once upon a time, high-quality links were plentiful. But with the growth of the web, and an ever-increasing number of competing websites, garnering link love and attention is a time-consuming and tedious process.There are 4 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-may-let-users-rearrange-search.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:47:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-8342697033368747048Google Inc. is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.The company has already run public tests on its search-results pages that contain up and down arrows next to listed links, as well as buttons that allow users to append comments to results."At this point, I can't say what we expect from this feature; we're just 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/adobe-flash-and-search-engines-unite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:48:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-1540595241021754272Adobe Systems is helping Google and Yahoo to uncover Web content that was previously "invisible" to Web searches.Both companies have been given optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications that include the Flash file format, or Shockwave Flash, Adobe said in a statement. Search engines already index static text and links 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-page-rank-explained.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:58:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-3616186961154060770Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search 0http://flashdesignblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/photographic-images-vs-graphic-images.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Steve Miceli)Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:03:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-5146992396462390300Do photographic images get old on the web ?What I mean is, photographic images placed in a prominent area of a web site like the header, seen by repeat visitors, time and time again. Does the recognition of this one (1) photo get old quickly for our site visitors ? Would it be more effective to use graphic images ? What is the psychology behind this ?The psychology behind image recognition is 1