In this article I would like to introduce you to MegaZine3 Page Flip Engine – awesome product created by German flash developers. Why MegaZine3? This powerful flash page flip engine has a long row of advantages over similar flash products. The most significant are – open source codes, 100% AS3 based coding, lots of additional flash plugins, even basic version allows to include different types of web content like video, photo galleries, text pages and much more. And maybe the most important point for many customers – you are not supposed to be experienced flash user to create your own flip book website and add your content.

Ok, now let’s take a closer look at flash page flip site engine.

Extreme easy of use.

Thought Megazine3 is unbelievably powerful and extensible flash product, creating full flash site based on this flipbook is really easy task even for the beginner. You can create simple flip book website using just 3 lines of XML:

<book plugins=”batchpages“>
<chapter pages=”path/to/images/page_image[10].jpg”/>
</book>

These 3 lines create flip book consisting of 10 jpg images using page_image1.jpg through using page_image1.jpg files.

Demo version.

Probably the easies way to make sure Megazine3 rocks is to take a look at demo version of this open source flash flipbook. There are thousands of websites on the Net using this flash engine and dozens of companies developing sophisticated plugings adding more powerful and useful features to this product.  For example one of the tool allows to convert PDF document into flash flip book website.

Search Engine Optimization.

Megazine3 Flash engine comes SEO prepared right out of the box. It has built in support of SWFaddress which allows to create separate URLs and Titles for every single flash page of your website. Besides that SWFAddres is JavaScript library allowing to open every fage of flash movie with the unique URL, it’s extremely important for flash SEO. It’s really nice that flash developers considered this aspect beforehand and added vitally important SWF Address support.

Navigation Panel.

Site navigation is very important for your visitors. Magazine Flip Book automaticaly creates page preview thumbnails and add them to the main navigation panel with a direct link to the page.  All buttons used in navigation panel are stored in external png files so you can always edit them and add your own look and feel to your flash site. Recently professional flip book templates were added to flashmint collection. Now you can easily get professional design created specially for flash page flip website, though you can turn on your creativity and design your own.

Multilingual support.

Very often you have to provide site content in several languages. As a rule the development of such websites is expensive and pretty complex. Megazine3 comes with built in multilingual support making things much easier. You should just create xml settings files for your optional languages and you have professional flash site with multilingual support.

Licensing.

As we have mentioned before Megazine Flip book is distributed free of charge with open source codes which can be used for unlimited period for your personal or testing purposes. Nevertheless if you are wiling to use this product for commercial purposes you have to purchase a license. In my opinion the licensing scheme Megazine offers is pretty unclear and complicated so you really need to apply some efforts just to find out what type of licensing suits your needs. You can read more about it here .

Regardless of some unclear licensing terms the product is very well documented and it wont be difficult to master the manual for any unexperienced user. Wiki page provides detailed documentation and covers both general engine settings and detailed plugin descriptions.