20 Original Solutions for a Musician’s Flash Website

There are some features that a professional website of a musician should possess: it should always be up-to date, visually attractive and have a good music accompaniment. It should have all necessary info for fans:  bio, gigs, photos, cds/mp3s, newsletter, booking info and links. The website should be as unique as its owner and reflect the inner world of the musician in some way. And it all may be realized by means of Flash: you can create a great interactive website with visual effects, animation, stunning music, etc…

When I started writing this post, I planned to make a showcase of original full flash websites for the musicians looking for some ideas for their musical portfolios. While searching, I also found some interesting flash web templates for musicians. So, I decided to divide my post into two parts. In the first one I’ve collected the original flash musicians’ websites; and in the second part I’ll share you with some flash templates for musicians’ websites: I tried to choose the most creative examples.

http://www.smashinghub.com/20-original-solutions-for-a-musicians-full-flash-website.htm

Join the Smashing Magazine Contest on Twitter and win a Free Flash CMS!

We were pretty stoked when Vitaly Friedman from SmashingMagazine.com agreed to make a Twitter contest and give away 5 Free licenses of our Flash CMS, and then even more stoked when the contest started and we received a huge bunch of feedbacks and reviews! :)

For those of you who don’t know Vitaly, he is an Editor-in-chief and Co-founder at Smashing Media, a web design expert and just an awesome person to deal with.

http://www.flashmoto.com/blog/project-news/join-the-smashing-magazine-contest-on-twitter-and-win-a-free-flash-cms/

7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers (with quick tutorials for each)

Web developers, you guys are really lucky. The tools available for you as a group are very powerful and they come in all shapes and sizes. With the introduction of Google Chrome, the community has made some amazing extensions which are very easy to use for every day work. Below you have the ones I consider most useful (starting with the best, of course ;) ).

http://aext.net/2010/03/extremely-useful-chrome-extensions-for-web-developers/