One very useful free flash component I found online was a flash photo gallery by flashsources.net. It has a very clean design that is very versatile to any website that it may be implemented on. It has the ability to cycle through the images at a certain rate. You could have it set to change pictures every say 3 seconds. There is also a left a right chooser to go to the previous or next image. Another thing I really like about this gallery is at the top a thumbnail is shown of all of the images in the gallery. If someone were to simply click on a thumbnail, they would be brought instantly to that image.
Another good flash component I found was a menu bar with nice animation when the mouse is positioned over the buttons. All of the colors are customizable and the text within the buttons are also customizable through the xml file. It is a very simple but clean menu bar which also makes it very easy to incorporate in a different multitude of websites. The only complaint I would have is the physical look of the buttons. They seem to have too much of a glare on the button making it somewhat hard to read the text.
The photo gallery could be used extensively on many types of sites. Whether it be just a simple blog or an extensive showcase of ones photographs the gallery could come in handy. Anytime you are dealing with say more than 5 photos in a series this free component will come in handy. The menu bar component could also work with many different kinds of websites. It will be most effective on websites with a nice clean design as they lend well with a minimalistic design.
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