Besides PDF to Flash converter it also has such useful features as flv,mpeg,avi video support, deep linking generator(based on swfaddress 2.4 JS library), JPEG flip book creator, ftp client and much more. The application is built on powerful open source flip book engine Megazine3. All these factors allow anyone create professional flip book website in minutes. Simply upload your PDF file or create a site from stand alone JPEG pages.

To get a demo version of the program you should follow the link to the official website of Flip Book CMS

In this brief article we want to introduce one of the most promising content management systems for flash xml flip book engine Megazine 3D. The software is produced by FancyCMS under FancyFlip label and demo version will be available till the 1st of August 2010.

The software provides user with convenient and powerful interface allowing to control all aspects of your website. The application comes with built in ftp client that helps to publish flash site without any additional 3rd parties software. Another interesting feature is pdf 2 swf converter which imports pdf files, converts them and publish as flash website. Also you can create your flip book from a set of jpeg, png or gif files. Advanced tools give you full control over flip book interface design. You can change background, navigation icons and much more.

Please take a few minutes to download FancyFlip demo, we believe you will find this software really helpful.

So here what I have. At the moment I have 47% commission plan as a non exclusive author at flashcomponents.net and 35% at flashmint.com with the same non exclusive terms.

Here is some information regarding Advanced XML Driven Template

Sales Number         Template Cost      Revenue

FMint.com                                          23                                   50                       $402.5

FComponents.net                            28                                   20                      $263.2

As you see flashmint.com makes less sales but due to sufficiently higher bid my revenue was almost twice better, though flashcomponents.net attracts more customers due to lower price policies. Both of market places have one really big advantage which is developers friendly policy, these guys are not looking for reasons to reject your design but look for opportunities to help the designer make product better and sell items safely.

In a few weeks flashmint is planning to launch a new series of flash CMS templates based on Flash Moto Content Management System. By giving wide choice of template the company hopes to increase the number of sales and attract new customers. The advantage of Flashmoto driven templates is advanced flex based admin interface allowing to manage the design of the website in visual mode by means of using flash drag and drop technology. Though these conveniences are pretty expensive(avera flash moto template costs in the range of $250) the solution is considered to be the most cost effective so far.

I must notice that this CMS went far beyond our expectation in the sense of flexibility and variety of the designs. Every experienced developer knows that any form of product unification leads to designs limitations.  We are happy to announce that 90% of flash templates available for sale on the net can be emulated using our CMS. That includes both wordpress themes, ecommerce and joomla templates! Yes, we went a huge mile to make things really flexible. In a couple of days we will publish Users manual covering basic site elements editing, global settings management and SEO aspects. Bet you will be really surprised

Here is the preview image

and if you follow this link you will see it in action.

The template will be distributed through flashmint.com and flashcomponents.net

The cost is $50

Hope you like it cause the template comes with 6 flash components which can be used as a standalone application or part of this template(or any other created by artin2ition)

I was always wondering why people use Macs instead of PCs. It’s more expensive, less functional, more proprietary. The trick is in white plastic and the fact people just feel happy sitting in front of nice box with smooth lines thinking they are possessing a piece of art. They think it’s beautiful. Same thing with Adobe Flash technology. Who cares that Adobe Flash in passed 3 years turned into programming monster which it was never supposed to be. Nobody cares it is not SEO friendly, it’s damn expensive and extremely difficult to update for average user. No one cares until it’s beautiful. That’s the main reason why Flash will survive and beat all sorts of new coming HTML6, 7, 10….

Now lets take a look at major industry players. I would say that in passed 2-3 years they divided into 2 “teams “competing with each other and every member of the team. So these teams are large template providers like TemplateMonster, FlashMint, CBMCard on one hand and flash stock websites like FlashComponents, ActiveDen, iStockPhoto and some other less popular website on other hand.  Flash Stock websites provide relatively high quality and extremely inexpensive flash products appealing to many customers. These products are provided by freelance designers(like me) and as a rule cost in the range of $20-35 which is twice less than the most inexpensive product at templatemonster for example. In their turn flash template providers can give the customer much better technical support, wider range of services and complex flash product that will never be developed by single designer or flash developer. Good examples of such products are:

FlashMint CMS, MintEditor(desktop application for flash xml site editing)

TemplateMonster FlashMotor CMS, some intros with content management system.

CBMCard Admin templates for photo and video portals.

Thus it’s pretty difficult to judge who’s gonna be the winner, but one thing is for sure – fair competition gives premium quality, monopoly brings lack of quality and support.

Another fact which is getting more and more obvious is that the future of the industry is in Flash content management systems. The customers don’t want to buy expensive software and edit tons of ActionScript code. Every one wants simple and intuitive admin interface allowing to make all necessary changes to the templates. FlashMint was the 1st to introduce CMS for flash templates, after that templatemonster created flex based dynamic galleries(pretty awkward solution) and now they are promoting their next generation of flash CMS - FlashMoto CMS Templates. FancyCMS boasts to launch brand new advanced flash CMS with full e-commerce support, flash SEO support and extended site management features. Let’s hold on and see, but I am sure it’s only the beginning of long and exciting fight.

Also the program comes with easy to use publishing tool that can be really helpful for site updates and backups. According to the information posted at  flashmint blog e-commerce version with advanced PayPal shopping cart is coming soon.