Logo Maker 3.3 is the gift to all the Logo Maker users for Chinese Spring Festival. Just a few days later, Chinese Spring Festival will come; it is one of the most popular festivals in the world; there will be more than 1.3 billion people all over the world to celebrate traditional Chinese New Year, it covers the fields of food, drink, gift, shopping, travel, transportation and many other industries. It is an opportunity for websites develop business during that period of time.

In cases of festival, there is great demand for resources about the relating festival. Logo Maker 3.3 helps developers to keep up with the demand. The new version adds 21 festival templates, all of them were designed in traditional Chinese style; they create joyous and auspicious atmosphere to your logo and website.

In addition to the templates, we also add more than 200 logo images in “Celebration & Festival”,”Shape-Curve” and”Shape-Geometry” categories. Those images are the resources to decorate your logo and website. You can learn from those 2 tutorials for your own project:

How to add Christmas element to your logo (image logo)?
How to add Christmas element to your logo (text logo)?

Finally, Logo Maker 3.3 enhances user experience. It will automatically restart when switching to different language interfaces. Previously, users have to restart by hand when switching the languages. In order to meet the demand for multi-language users and promote user experience, users don’t have to restart program by hand anymore in version 3.3.

Logo Maker users are welcome to update to version 3.3; new users are welcome to have a 30-day free trial:
Download Logo Maker 3.3

More information about Logo Maker 3.3 please visit:
http://www.sothink.com/product/logo-maker/

Happy Chinese New Year!

1. User doesn’t know what the purpose of your site is within 5-7 seconds.

Most users will give up soon after that quick window vanishes…   You already know what you site is there for, so you take it for granted that the user knows too. But often they don’t, and boy oh boy when it comes to those ‘integration solution’ type businesses that appear to do everything and nothing all at once, it can sure be confusing.

A user should never have to work to figure out what your site does. Take that to the bank.

2. User has to wait for your site to load.

Again, users are impatient. Unless your site is a cult design site that users know will be worth waiting for, it’s an epic fail to make ‘em wait more than 5-7 seconds for the site to load. Many will say “3 seconds max, loser!!”.

Given all the places where latency can slow things down, don’t assume the user has the same lighting fast  fiber connection that you do.

If you are a design house and want to show off, give the potential client (everyone who comes to your site is a potential client) a “work examples” page on your site where they can see your seriously tricky Flash work…but don’t lose the potential client before they see your work.

3. Make the most important parts of your site larger than items of lower importance. Use visual heirarchy.

Visual heirarchy. Learn it, live it. There are lots of good books on this topic at Amazon.

Select the most important things you want the user to see, 2-4 items… make ‘em bigger. Select a few more, make ‘em medium sized. All the rest should be small, or just links.

4. Disorganized layouts without a grid are a fail.

To gain the users trust you need an organized easy to understand layout. If your overall layout looks disjointed or disorganized, you are doomed as far as your user TRUSTING your ability to create something of value for them. Granted, some high end fancy design shops can get away with very arty layouts that are hard to navigate (yes it shows how creative you are, we know!)… but for 99% of your work, learn how to apply a grid and use it to organize your layout.

5. Too many visual motifs are a fail. Think simple.

Too many shaded buttons, colors, shadows, gradients, type faces, graphical elements will muddy things. Think simple. Simple is elegant. Create a style guide with some crisp simple elements and stick to it. Limit your main colors to shades of gray and 2 other colors. There is still something positively wonderful about Apple.com.

From: http://www.coolhomepages.com/Top-5-Web-Design-Mistakes/blog-17.html

See below this chart for an interesting trend in Google Adsense too!

From: http://www.coolhomepages.com/Top-30-Most-Important-Web-Technologies/blog-144.html

SWF Editor is designed mainly for users to fast edit SWF files. With SWF Editor, you can get rid of the complicated Adobe Flash tool to execute changes. Instead, you only need to open the SWF in SWF Editor, and then fast locate the target tag value and change it as needed.

What’s new in SWF Editor 1.1?

• Add support for opening and editing GLS files;
• Add two language interfaces, Russian and Portuguese.

SWF Editor will read and analyze structure of SWF files, and list all the tags in a tree view; you can check and edit gls data exported from SWF Decompiler. To edit a SWF file, you just need to double-click the target tag value and directly change it.

What’s the difference between gls editing in SWF Editor and SWF Decompiler?

In SWF Editor, the change can only be made on value; whereas in SWF Decompiler, it is a visual editing in WYSIWYG interface. There are different in ways.

Now, we also broaden our service range to Portugal and Russia. SWF Editor 1.1 supports free language switch; at present, there are altogether 8 languages available: English, Traditional Chinese, German, French, Italian, Korean, Russian and Portuguese. Users from different countries could choose different languages to use.

You are welcome to download SWF Editor 1.1:
http://www2.sothink.com/download/swfeditor.zip

For more information, please visit:
http://www.sothink.com/product/swf-editor/

Step One

Launch Sothink Logo Maker and choose a logo template with Xmas hat from Template Window;

Step Two

Remain the only hat on canvas and remove all the other logo elements from it;

Step Three

Click on Import button on tool bar to load image of your logo and locate the hat onto this image as displayed below;

Step Four

Input words of “Sothink” and “LogoMaker”. For “Sothink”, Font is set as Tahoma, Size as 20, Color as grey. For “Logomaker”, Font is Tahoma as well, Size as 35, Bold;

Step Five

Select “LogoMaker”, and go to Gradient panel to choose the second effect. And then click on Custom button to specify color as blue, its color value is “#6BCFF8” and drag triangle signal to make color as gradient too. See details from image below;

Step Six

Go to Shadow panel to choose the first effect, and then click on Custom button to specify values for the options. See the image shown.

Now the logo is finished. You can download and install Sothink Logo Maker to try it on your own! And the relevant .lmk is here for download.

To learn how to add Christmas element on text of logo, please kind click here to get more info! Enjoy it and wish you a merry Christmas!

]]> http://www.sothink.com/blog/how-to-add-christmas-element-to-your-image-logo/feed/ 1 http://www.sothink.com/blog/how-to-add-christmas-element-to-your-text-logo/ http://www.sothink.com/blog/how-to-add-christmas-element-to-your-text-logo/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:30:23 +0000 liangyan http://www.sothink.com/blog/?p=4242 Christmas is approaching, people all around the world are getting ready to celebrate this great festival. And in order to add more festival atmosphere to your business, we believe that decorating your logo with a bit Christmas element will add more fun to the festival celebration and  will make different visual effect from the original logo display.   So we will introduce methods of how to add Christmas style elements to your original logo, specifying on its text or image separately . And we have selected FedEX logo to  illustrate how to put a hat on its text step by step.

Let’s have a quick view on the finished logo as follow:

Step One

Launch Sothink Logo Maker and choose a logo template with Xmas hat from Template Window;

Step Two

Remain the only hat on canvas and remove all the other logo elements from it;

Step Three

Input letters “F,e,d,E,x” separately and choose their Font as Arial Black, and Size as 72. Define their colors as purple and orange, the correspond color values are “#483092” and “#F47820”;

Step Four

Select those letters by different colors one after another, and define displaying effect for them separately by going to Gradient under Effect panel to choose the fifth effect, and then click on Custom button to set Angle as 90 and drag triangle signal shown as image below;

Step Five

Adjust text in one line and then specify reflect effect to them. Please choose Reflection panel and select the second effect;

Step Six

Highlight the hat and right click on it to choose Group, and go to Home tab to choose Horizontal Mirror under Mirror button;

Step Seven

Put the hat on letter F, and adjust its size and rotation angle to fit. And now the logo has been done!

You can download the logo resource, the .lmk file here. And it can be opened with Sothink Logo Maker for preview. And if your logo is generated based on images mainly, please kindly consult tutorial about adding Christmas hat on image for details.

Enjoy it!

Logo Maker 3.2 is the last upgrade before Christmas which has exciting new features:

First and foremost, Logo Maker 3.2 supports SVG export. This is an anticipating function for lots of users. You can export your work in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, which means you are able to adjust the size freely without quality loss; it is convenient to apply the logo for other design projects such as web design or graphic design; and you can edit logo in other graphic tools.

Secondly, we add multi-language switch function. We provide 4 languages for users from different countries: English, French, German and Traditional Chinese. You are able to switch different languages with ease.

Finally, we will not forget the most important festival of the year—Christmas. As usual, we prepare templates in Christmas style for you to decorate websites. There are totally 21 brand new Christmas templates in the new version. You are welcome to adopt any resource to your present project. Those templates are helpful to grasp the opportunity of Christmas to promote your business.

You are welcome to update your Logo Maker to version 3.2 to check out the new features. New users are welcome to have a 30-day free trial.
Download Sothink Logo Maker >>

More information about Logo Maker 3.2 please visit
http://www.sothink.com/product/logo-maker/

Merry Christmas!

SWF Decompiler 7.0 not only succeeds the functions in the previous version, but also adds brand new features:

First of all, a shape editor – WYSIWYG was added in shape panel to modify the existing shapes. You can edit shape elements in WYSIWYG Shape Editor directly instead of opening the third party tool like Adobe Flash.

1. You are able to import and export gls files
2. It provides various ways to edit shape element in preview window, such as delete, copy, paste, select, transform, group and etc.
3. You can set single color, gradient color or bitmap fill color for the enclosed area of the border line of the selected shape.

Secondly, SWF Decompiler 7.0 enhances SWF to HTML5 converting function. Web animation could be developed by HTML5 without any extra plug-in; SWF Decompiler 7.0 is able to convert whole SWF to HTML5.

Thirdly, the new version supports Flash CS5. It provides full compatibility of Flash from CS3 to CS5.

Finally, it upgrades Flash Downloader for Firefox which supports Firefox 8.0. it helps you to capture and save Flash SWF from the latest version of Firefox.

SWF Decompiler 7.0 is available now; you are welcomed to have a 30-day free trial.
http://www2.sothink.com/download/swfdec.zip

More information about SWF Decompiler 7.0.
http://www.sothink.com/product/flashdecompiler/

October and November have two exciting festivals of the year – Halloween and Thanksgiving Day. They are the time for happy and union; meanwhile, they are the battles for webmasters to grasp the eyes of their visitors.

So how to create festival atmosphere to website is a key problem before the festival. Fortunately, we just released Logo Maker 3.1 which will help you to solve the problem. The new version succeeds the functions of previous version, and most importantly, it adds 39 awesome festival templates for Halloween and Thanksgiving Day. The brand new templates provide more resources for you to decorate the websites.

The templates contain different styles of pumpkins, witches, zombies and turkeys. You can adopt any resources you like to your own website. They help you to inspire a unique idea to make your website as special as possible.

In addition to the cool templates, we also fixed bug of incomplete display of skew V value on the right bottom status bar.

You can update your Logo Maker to version 3.1 to check those new templates. New users are welcomed to have a 30-day free trial.
Download Sothink Logo Maker >>

More information about Logo Maker 3.0 please visit
http://www.sothink.com/product/logo-maker/

Tips and tutorials please visit
Tips & tutorials for Sothink Logo Maker >>

Sothink SWF Decompiler family welcomes its fresh blood, the latest Version 6.6, which integrates Sothink Flash Downloader for Firefox V1.9 into the program, enables you work with Firefox 7 beautifully.

Sothink SWF Decompiler is a leading Flash decompiler and Flash to HTML5 converter. Converts SWF to FLA or FLEX; Easily extracts Flash resources like shape, image, sound (mp3, wav), video (flv), text, sprite, ActionScript, etc; Replaces image, shape, text and sound for SWF; Supports Adobe Flash CS3/CS4/CS5 and ActionScript 2.0/3.0; Able to get XFL file from Flash CS5 SWF; Globally searches all ActionScript; Exports SWF resources in batch; With the latest version 1.9 of Sothink Flash Downloader for Firefox, you can capture and save online Flash in Firefox 7 without copying and pasting URL manually.

New Feature:

* Upgrade Sothink Flash Downloader for FireFox to version 1.9, which supports Firefox 7.*.

Fixed bug:

* Replace jaf.js file as sprite.js file.

Leading decompiler with new function added at its original price, now feel no hesitate to download Sothink SWF Decompiler V6.6 at once to experience!