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If you like Yahoo! Widgets then you will like YourMinis. Basically it’s online version of Yahoo! Widgets, you can have clock, calendar, to-do lists, notepad, xml fetchers…etc You can create multiple tabs, each tab will be a different page and you can create different widgets for different pages. For example one page you can make a news page, another page you can make an email page (you can have gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail and other pop3 accounts all in one page). So go get your minis! www.yourminis.com

Flash Schemer is a flash based color generator tool. You can input RGB or HTML codes and get a variation of that color, as well as other matching colors. defmech.com/color/

Flapr is done entirely in flash, I find it a lot easier to use, compared to Flickr itself. For some reason Flickr does not display Search box on the secondary pages, this makes a lot of people’s life difficult - imagine thousands of people searching for the Search box and clicking back button to make a new search. Flapr retrieves the images in the same page so you don’t have to go from page to page as you do in Flickr.

www.bcdef.org/flappr/

200k Ltd.
URL: www.200k.co.uk/extensions_dw.html

Alex Dzhulay’s Extensions
URL: www.linecraft.com/downloads.htm

Andrew Castle’s Extensions
URL: andrewc.com/~andrewc/downloads/dream.htm

Angela C. Buraglia’s Extensions
URL: www.dwfaq.com/go.asp?ID=AngelaX10

Basic UltraDev
URL: www.basic-ultradev.com/

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Jakob Nielsen in his Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 writes:

Flash is a programming environment and should be used to offer users additional power and features that are unavailable from a static page. Flash should not be used to jazz up a page. If your content is boring, rewrite text to make it more compelling and hire a professional photographer to shoot better photos. Don’t make your pages move. It doesn’t increase users’ attention, it drives them away; most people equate animated content with useless content.

If used correctly flash can be a great tool and a great addition to your site. However if designed badly (especially the fully flash sites) it can be a disaster to a company. Here designed badly means in the usability sense, Read more »