Designers, in order to build maintainable, optimized and full featured Flash websites, you only need Silex and whatever software you use to design the background, illustrations, etc. In Silex you can add interactivity and build the structure of your publication.

With Flash you will be able to add more complex interactivity and customize components and animation.

Silex users have chosen this tool for :

• its automatic SEO system
• its constant evolution
• its documentation and the ever growing designers and developers community
• the Silex components and themes provided with it
• its legitimate integration in Adobe CS5 package
• its short learning curve

Web magazines and online catalogs

Characteristics

Presents a catalog of products, in an elegant and interactive maner.

Examples

As we are not allowed to disclose the links to these sites for now : we wait the agreement of the clients who used Silex for such sites. But you can look at screenshots of flippable themes below.

Software and skills involved

Use of Silex editor and Flash animation. For some advanced components there may be some webmaster skills needed, e.g. manipulation of XML data, RSS feeds in Silex. If you need really complex visual components, an ActionScript developper may be required at some point, but he will not need to enter the code of Silex, he will use the APIs in order to interact with the well documented framework.

Average time needed

Between 5 and 15 days

Applications in the cloud with offline capabilities

Characteristics

An emerging strategy for application software companies is to provide web access to software previously distributed as local applications. With Silex you can develop such products or do prototyping for it, without heavy development skills.

Software and skills involved

Use of Silex editor and Flash animation. Webmaster skills are often needed, e.g. manipulation of XML data, RSS feeds in Silex, handle language files. An ActionScript developper is required to publish the applicaiton using third party products such as AIR or Zinc. But most of the work is done by the designer.

Average time needed

Between 15 days and 2 month

Examples :

Web applications (RIA), such as websites management console, dashboards, RSS agregators, web TVs, etc.

http://chaivoo.net

http://visualcv.fr

screenshot de oopoom

Desktop applications (RDA), installers, etc.
- evolys
- silex launcher
- Silex Labs desktop widget

Points of sell (POS), touch screens
- proximus

Widgets for WordPress, joomla, FaceBook, myspace, etc.
- Silex widgets (WordPress, myspace)

Showcase websites

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Characteristics

Used to provide background information about a business, organization, or service. Design is very important and content is static, i.e. does not change every day. Must reflect the organization values and respect its image.

Software and skills involved

Use of Silex editor and Flash animation.

Average time needed

Between 2 days and 2 weeks

Dynamic sites development

Web masters, with Silex you will be able to build a website with dynamic content comming from an external data source.

With the provided components, named the [[http://oof.sourceforge.net|Oof components]], you can plug a connector to nice looking and interactive lists, which you manipulate with drag and drop, and customize either in Silex or even more deeply with Flash.

The ready to use connectors let you connect to these sources, without a line of code

text files, flat files or ini files

RSS feeds to plug into major CMS, such as Drupal, Joomla, WordPress…

XML files, XML services, XML RPC, and php scripts returning XML. This makes it straightforward to display the results of these services: google APIs (youtube, picassa, agenda, …), facebook, yahoo (flickr), twitter… And Silex API of course, which allows you to list server side folders, do queries to search deeply in your Silex site, acces config or language files…

a php gateway – see [[http://projects.silexlabs.org/?/amfphp|amfPHP to interact easily with your database or web services]]

spreadsheet stored serverside, in these formats: Microsoft office .xls, .xlsx and Open Office .ods files. You can use this in order to store data or to retrieve values computed at runtime, coded as formulas in the spreadsheet and depending on values provided by the user.

Mock Up & Prototypes

As Silex enables simplified integration of content and fast customization of all its graphical components, it is used in the production of mock-ups of various kinds (mock-up : scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion..).