I'm a web designer/developer, writer and animator living in Birmingham Ala. I have been working in the web design/development field for 10 years. I am a founding member of the writing and animation team 5 Guys in a Garage who started JabTV.com. I have worked for various internet and media companies over the years including the now defunt Hecklers.com and al.com.

Deep linking for Flash and Ajax

SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. It’s a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can point to a website section or an application state. SWFAddress enables a number of important capabilities which are missing in today’s rich web technologies including:

Bookmarking in a browser [...]

Filed under:Actionscript, Adobe, Flash

Search engine optimization for Flash

I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Flash. Flash came along at a time when web development felt very restrictive for a creative person. Now in a world where web standards are spoken as gospel. Flash seems to have less and less of a role to play. Its biggest obstacle is the [...]

Filed under:Actionscript, Adobe, Flash, SEO

Beginning Programming Productivity Tips

Starting programming or simply refining your work flow can be a daunting task. Everyone has their set way of working and it’s the way that works best for them. This is a list of suggestions that can help coders of all levels and languages.

6 Places that Flash Does Not Belong

I read the below article and thought is was worth bringing up. I LOVE Flash but flash has it’s proper uses and this article explains those uses. We all need to embrace these items and come up inventive ways to adhere to it.
Written by Samuel in Website Building
It’s recently occurred to me that I’ve [...]