Let’s check out new arrival navigation menus:

1. Dot navigation menu template
   
2. Pipe navigation menu template
   
   
3. Roof navigation menu template
   
   

4. Grass-green navigation menu template
   
   
5. Crystal navigation menu template
   
   

The above-mentioned templates are just small portion for built-in templates, all 100+ free templates are packaged in Sothink DHTML Menu; they are totally free for the registered users.

About Sothink DHTML Menu

Sothink DHTML Menu is powerful drop down menu builder; it includes 100+ templates & 30 styles, which enable you to create cross-browser menu, SE friendly menu and fast-loading menu in clicks. Seamlessly integrate with main-stream web editors; support database driven menus; fully customize menu style.

Main features of navigation menu builder:

• Full cross-browser compatibility.
• Seamlessly integrates with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and Adobe GoLive.
• Supports database driven navigation menu with ASP, PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion.
• Creates functional navigation menu, such as tab menu, highlight menu, scrolling menu, cross-frame menu, multi-level/multi-column menu, custom menu, floating menu, etc.
• Offers 100 + free templates, 30+ preset styles; and provides image library for menu design.
• Supports saving background color of preview window in authoring files.
• Publish wizard guides you to publish the drop down menu to website step by step.
• Customizes web menu properties, like font, icon, background, border, cursor, tool tip, etc.

Download Sothink DHTML Menu to view all 100+ free navigation menus. Apply your favorite menu now and light up your website instantly.

Therefore, the latest Sothink Logo Maker 2.0 is greatly enhanced. It is enriched with lots of new features and improvements focused on providing better user experience. This intuitive logo creator simplifies your logo design work with 190 customizable logo templates, 400 color schemes, 2500+ logo image resources and 40+ text fonts. With these well-prepared logo design resources, you can easily DIY a high-quality and distinctive company logo, sign design, business logo, web signature, icon, etc. in minutes without professional logo design experience.

The most important enhancement in Logo Maker 2.0 is the logo color & effect settings. In previous versions, these two settings are combined together and adjusted in one panel. But now you can set color and effect in two separate panels, thus the configurations will become more specific and powerful.

Colors:

Sothink Logo Maker is the first logo design tool to offer this appealing feature. There are 400 well-chosen color schemes filtered by color and category which keep you from complicated color palettes and color matching rules. For advanced users, you can customize the color as you like.

Samples:

Effects:

Six cool effects are offered for you to apply for any logo elements: Gradient, Shadow, Bevel, Glow, Reflection & Hollow. You can easily set special visual effects for logo images or texts by one click. Also, advanced customization is allowed.

Samples:

Please follow the quick start guide to learn how to set color and effect for logo elements >>

In this latest Logo Maker 2.0, lots of functional buttons are added to the toolbar, which will make your logo design process to be more efficient. What’s more, 37 new logo templates and 14 new fonts are available.

Download Logo Maker to have a free try!

1. Launch JavaScript Web Scroller and set global settings for iPad Slideshow

Launch Sothink JavaScript Web Scroller to start new image scroller, first, enter the tab “Global”, and set the global width in percent; and then set scroller type as “Image Only” in below property for iPad website of landscape and portrait mode.
 


2. Add item, image and link for iPad Slideshow

 
Add items for iPad slideshow in List panel; and then browse the image and input the link to be your website. Click the tab “Item” and edit image and link in below property panel.
 


3. Publish the iPad Slides to make it fit iPad website

Publish the JavaScript code or resource files to the defined folder, and insert two pieces of code to “head” and “body” in iPad web page. Preview web scroller on Internet after uploading all the resource files to web server.
 

That’s the end; your iPad slideshow has been displayed, it fits well with iPad website. Making image slideshow, you should set width in percent in step1; it is important to make the iPad slideshow fit perfectly with iPad website.
 
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JavaScript Web Scroller
 
The robust JavaScript Web Scroller creates iPad Slideshow for iPad website. It creates image scroller, web scroller, iPad slide, slideshow, etc in minutes. No JavaScript experience needed and without coding. JavaScript web scroller well integrates as add- ons with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web and GoLive.
 
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At present, the web designers usually adopt three layouts to design website: fixed, fluid and elastic. These website layouts have their own advantages and disadvantages, the web designers should choose the appropriate layout based on your websites. Let’s view the below chart to get pro&cons of website layout:

Based on the above comparison chart, I think that the fluid layout is the best choice to make iPad website since iPad has the features of fluid width design. Next, I will present you how perfect the website elements in ipad web page of fluid layout, drop down menu, tree menu, image scroller:

iPad drop down menu (made by Sothink DHTML Menu) :

iPad tree menu (made by Sothink Tree Menu) :

iPad Slideshow (made by Sothink JavaScript Web Scroller) :

Does Fluid layout work well in iPad website? At least, the web elements like DHTML menu and JavaScript menu performance excellently. You can attempt to design iPad website by fluid layout. Hope you enjoy it.

View more iPad JavaScript menu samples:

As we know, iPad drop down menu is the vital element in iPad web design; it has the characteristic of navigating iPad website, beautifying iPad web page and including more contents in less space. And if inserting iPad drop down menu into iPad web page, your website will get better user experience. Let’s view the JavaScript menu on iPad.

• Make Your iPad Website Fluid Web Design

With iPad, you can view the websites in landscape or in portrait mode. In fact, the web designer need to make different two web designs for displaying website perfectly. Of course, there is a simple method to get the ideal results – a smart combination of CSS and JavaScript. This way enables your iPad website performs well on iPad and PC.

For drop down menu, you can set the menu’s width in percent to make it work well, which matches with iPad website of different resolutions and dimensions. From below figure, you will see almost the same menu effect in two web pages of two dimensions.

• Design Big Enough Link and Hover Effect

iPad is not the traditional point-based deices, all the interaction between iPad and users is touch, which is fulfilled by finger. For getting better user experiences, you should design link and hover effects big and clear, so that the user can dexterously click upon it.

Below presents us the drop down menu in website and iPad drop down menu in iPad website, you can get clear comparison.

• Create Your iPad Website with HTML 5

HTML 5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop. With HTML 5, Google is use HTML 5 for Youtube. As web designer, you should try HTML 5 to make iPad web page.

Keep these advices in your mind; you can make the compatible iPad website for iPad users.

The iPad drop down menu above-mentioned is created by Sothink DHTML Menu. Besides this drop down menu, it offers us more JavaScrip menu, DHTML menu.

DHTML Menu

The top-rank DHTML Menu creates perfectly iPad drop down menu for iPad website of landscape and portrait mode. With the built-in templates and rich preset styles, you can create SE friendly JavaScript menu in minutes. Fully customize iPad drop down menu to match with iPad web page. Free integrate with web editors as add-ons to build iPad drop down menus directly.

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Let’s change the traditional website to iPad website from now. First, we start with iPad drop down menu. As we know, the iPad has the characteristic of landscape and portrait mode, your iPad drop down menu must works well in both modes. For iPad web design, keep two things in your mind, you should set the width in percent instead of the fixed in iPad web page; re-sizing browser window is unavailable in iPad website.

iPad drop down menu can navigate your iPad website clearly; meanwhile,  it enables to contain the unlimited-level of menu items in one line, which occupies the less space and displays more. Next, we will learn how to make the useful drop down menu for iPad website. You will get some tips in iPad web development to avoid mistaking.
 
 
 
 

Follow us to go ahead:

1. Start With Built-in Templates from DHTML Menu Builder

Launch Sothink DHTML Menu, template windows opens; and choose iPad drop down menu “Clean” under the category “Business”.



2. Set iPad drop down menu for iPad website

After the iPad drop down menu display in the preview window, you can set the menu width in percent for iPad website of landscape and portrait mode.
Check “Global > General”, and set the width in percent in below property.



3. Modify the text and link for iPad drop down menu

Modify the text and link to be your own website. Click the text on menu panel, select the option “Menu Item > General”, and edit the text and link in below property panel.



4. Set resource folder to make iPad drop down menu work well in local or Internet

Set resource folder to save JavaScript and image files to the defined directory, which make sure the drop down menu display correctly. You can enter the “Global > Resource Folder” to set.



5. Publish the iPad drop down menu to make it display on iPad web page

Publish the resource files, menu code or JavaScript menu code to the specific folder, and insert two pieces of code to the tag “head” and “body” within iPad web page. You can preview menu locally; upload all the resource files to web server, you can preview menu on Internet.
Check the button “Publish”  on the toolbar to publish your iPad drop down menu.

Finish the above steps, your drop down menu has been shown on the iPad website. Making iPad drop down menu, you should pay attention to step 2, it is vital setting to make the iPad drop down menu perfectly displayed on iPad web page.

More iPad Drop Down Menu Samples:

About Sothink DHTML Menu

The top-rank DHTML Menu creates perfectly iPad drop down menu, JavaScript menu for iPad website of landscape and portrait mode. With the built-in templates and rich preset styles, you can create SE friendly JavaScript menu in minutes. Fully customize iPad drop down menu to match with iPad web page. Free integrate with web editors as add-ons to build iPad drop down menus directly.

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This latest Sothink SWF Decompiler for Mac V5.6 has greatly improved the ActionScript functions. Now it can encode internal characters in UTF-8 to correctly display the decompiled ActionScript of multi-byte language, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Moreover, this Flash Decompiler Mac will auto-play the last SWF movie when launching the program next time.

The main purpose of this SWF to FLA Converter Mac is to help you recover lost SWF or Flex source code, so you can easily make further alterations in native Flash or Flex environment. You also can easily extract all SWF elements like shapes, images, sounds (mp3, wav), videos (flv), texts, sprites, ActionScript, etc.

Main features of the Flash Decompiler Mac:

* Recover FLA from SWF file

* Convert SWF created by Flex back to Flex source code

* Extract SWF elements

* Fully support Flash 6/7(MX 2004)/ 8/9(CS3)/10(CS4)

* Support ActionScript 2.0/3.0

* Support Flash components

* Multi-language interface: English, German and French

For more feature information of the SWF Decompiler Mac >>

Since the release of Adobe Flash CS5, the next version of Sothink SWF Decompiler for Mac is under development plan and will be coming soon. The core feature of this upcoming V6.0 will have the ability to decompile SWF of Adobe Flash CS5. As a special offer from Sothink, users who purchase now can upgrade to the upcoming V6.0 for free.

Download Flash Decompiler Mac and enjoy 30-day free experience.

Download this latest version of the Flash maker for experience >>

Sothink SWF Quicker is the leading Flash editor. It is the best Flash software to edit an existing SWF file or create a professional Flash from scratch. The powerful Flash maker provides great vector editing capability at affordable price. With this fantastic SWF Editor, you can make Flash games, Flash movies, interactive animations, slide shows, etc. This Flash software supports Flash 6, 7, 8, 9, Flash 10, Flash CS5, Flash Lite 2.0/2.1/3.0 and AS 2.0/AS 3.0.

More information about Sothink SWF Quicker 5.2 > >

Please check the samples listed below:

How to edit an existing SWF or create new Flash with effects? Check the guides here >>

More information about this Flash banner maker>>

This powerful banner maker supports Windows 7 completely in V6.3, and the more users could enjoy the fantastic banner software from now on. Besides, it has enhanced a lot in other features, such as “added link settings for the main scene”, “combined the tab ‘Property’ for object, movie and scene”, “enable to replace element between the same or different file types”, etc.

In this new version, the banner creator provides 60 new templates, a resource library with hundreds of elements, and 60+ Flash effects. The templates cover eight colors and four sizes which comply with general industry specs. The Flash effects can be combined freely to form numerous new effects. Moreover, it has optimized the window of the flash banner template as well.

The example at the left shows one banner template of 4 different dimensions, which is the new feature in Sothink SWF Easy 6.3, and more banner samples in original proportion are listed here >>

So, would you like to have a try? Try to create ad banner, simple flash, or even GIF animators with the banner design software?

Quick Start Guide for Flash Banner Maker >>

Download this latest version of the banner maker for experience >>

As the industry-leading Flash decompiling tool, Sothink SWF Decompiler always keeps up with the latest Flash technology. Since the release of Adobe Flash CS5, the SWF Decompiler team has made an amazing plan of adding the power of decompiling Flash CS5, which will be realized in Sothink SWF Decompiler V6.0. It is a great enhanced version that is coming soon!

The current Sothink SWF Decompiler V5.6 is able to decompile the SWF made by Flash CS5, and extract SWF resources or convert it to the FLA file that can be opened in Flash CS5. But as we know, the TLF and XFL files stand for the most important features of Flash CS5, and now there is no actual Flash decompiler that can decompile these file formats on the market.

However, some Flash Decompiler product notably saying “supports conversion of SWF files created in Flash CS5*!” on its webpage,

and then give a very small-sized note: “The only new features of Flash CS5 not yet supported are Text Layout Framework (TLF) texts and conversion to XFL format. ”

This kind of commercial behavior will greatly mislead users, and let users misunderstand that the advertised Flash Decompiler software has totally supported Flash CS5 already.

Fortunately, SourceTec Software, the creator who first brought SWF Decompiler type product into the market, will always take high sense of responsibility to develop good software products and serve to users with honest attitude, instead of misleading users by playing word games. In the upcoming Sothink SWF Decompiler V6.0, SourceTec will step forward and make decompiling TLF and XFL becomes true.

Special offer: users ordered the V5.6 can upgrade to the upcoming V6.0 for FREE.

For more information about SWF Decompiler >>

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Learn More About Adobe Flash CS5

Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Adobe CS5) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe applications (e.g., Photoshop CS5, Acrobat, InDesign CS5, Illustrator CS5, Flash CS5), that are based on various technologies (e.g., PostScript, PDF, Flash).

Adobe Creative Suite CS5 includes more than 250 new features that are going to make work of design, print and production professionals easier, faster and more efficient. The amazing release of Flash CS5 means that from now on designers will have possibility to create expressive Web application interfaces and design interaction without writing code.

Main New Features of Adobe Flash CS5

1) Packager for iPhone —Publish ActionScript 3® projects in Adobe Flash Professional to run as applications for iPhone. Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 will include a Packager for iPhone, a capability included with the Adobe AIR® 2 SDK, that will let you publish ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications for the iPhone OS.

2) New text capabilities via the Text Layout Framework (TLF) — Get unprecedented text control and creativity with projects created in Flash. Advanced styling and layout, including right to left text, columns, and threaded text blocks, let you work with text in Flash like never before. Now to change contents or size of several textboxes you don’t need to do a lot of copying and pasting. You just link these textboxes together and when you shorten one of them the text flows from one textbox to another. And it works not only with roman language texts but also with vertical and right-to-left texts like Japanese.

3) XML based FLA files — Manage and modify project assets using source control systems and enable teams to easily collaborate on files.

4) Code Snippets panel — Choose prebuilt code that can be injected into projects to increase interactivity and also reduce the ActionScript 3 learning curve.

5) Flash Builder™ integration — Use Adobe Flash Builder software as your ActionScript editor within projects in Flash. You can just click to “tell” the Flash that you would like to do your editing right there in Flash Builder 4 and Flash will hand off the code to Flash Builder 4. And when the coding is ready you just click a button to package things up and go to Flash Professional, where you can do your export.

6) Improved ActionScript editor — Improve productivity with custom class code hinting and completion.