The grand ol’ Cherry Casino gets a redesign. The new site goes retro with classy, black and white photos to get you into that slot spinning mood.
The new site and brand required all marketing tools, mostly banners, to be updated. Luckily this became an easy task now that all banners were created in BannerFlow. We’re eager seeing what can be achieved in the long-run!
We have a few neat tools and features, under the BannerFlow hood, that helps us improve the application’s security and tracking down errors and exceptions. These are some of the precautions we take:
We’re constantly monitoring BannerFlow’s availability using a commercial ping service. Till now, the availability is at 99,86% since the readings started. In the unlikely event of the server going down, we’re notified immediately by SMS and email.
Database and media back-up is made every day which makes it possible to quickly restore campaigns, ads, uploaded files etc. that was mistakenly removed by any user.
In case of an error occurring whilst using the application, an error detail report is sent to customer care which lets us track down the issue quickly and get back to the user.
More on this at Precautions and commitments.
If you have any suggestion on how to make BannerFlow even better, don’t hesitate to give us your opinion!
As promised, here’s a quick presentation of some of the new 3D animations provided.
This demonstration banner (including an animated GIF) was created in five minutes with BannerFlow – without writing a single line of code. How long would it take to do manually?
Here’s a free icon collection of various sports. We designed them for a sports site that, unfortunately, never got published. Might come in use by someone else?
This icon set is saved in PNG-24 bit and covers the following sports:
Volleyball, baseball, tennis, golf, football, ice hockey, basketball, floorball, table tennis, motor sports, beach football, boxing, chess, cricket, curling, cycling, darts, board games, bandy, Gaelic football, handball, motor cycling, snooker/billiards, horse racing and ultimate fighting.
Please link back to www.nordicfactory.com when using these icons.
A recent update to BannerFlow helps you keep track of whom a text is sent for translation to, and when. Also, easily cancel or resend translations within seconds.
We’ve added three different types of motion blur to the animation panel. There are also two additions to the easing list; Quad and Sine.
A simple, yet brilliant, addition to the editor introduces a new world of possibilities to BannerFlow’s banner editor. The new feature allows you to combine any in and out animations to any object in the banner by multi-selecting effects from the animation panel. This makes it incredibly easy to apply advanced animations in a few mouse clicks.
Coming back with a few interesting demo banners later this week.
We are pleased to announce that we are deploying two new features to the translation process; Deadline reminding and completion notifying.
From now on, when sending translations you’ll be asked to pick a date/time as deadline. This deadline is communicated in the translation email that the translators receive. When the deadline is due, the translators who haven’t completed their translations are reminded by a new email.
To keep track of on-going translations there’s now a notification feature that sends an email to you when all translations in a campaign is completed. This setting is optional.
Translators now also receive a list of their pending translations with every new translation email/reminder. Hopefully this helps keeping track of uncompleted translation and increasing the overall completion rate of banner text translations.
File size is important when creating online campaigns. Therefore we’ve updated the tweening class which is the fundamental piece of BannerFlow animations. This update takes the animation library from 4 kilobytes to less than 2.
Altogether the banner render size is improved from 27 kilobytes to 25 and will most definitely improve the loading duration by some valuable milliseconds!
BannerFlow now has a few new animation and positioning options that will take your banners to a new dimension, literally! We’ve also migrated to Flash Player 10 which has a lot of other benefits too – especially in terms of speed. Please read more about our updates below.
Control banners’ texts and graphics positioning in all three dimensions with our new attributes:
We’ve added three (or actually six) new effects to use when animating objects in a banner:
There are now three new pulsate effects that can be applied to any objects on the banner stage: