It’s August already and we’re kicking off our first Friday Focus of the month with some Flash-based sites.

Dive into the colorful and detailed world of illustrated web design this week on Friday Focus.

Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Happy free 7-11 Slurpy day! Happy iPhone 3G day! Let’s celebrate with some sleek websites this week. They’re mostly blue, gray, blue-gray—that seemingly drab section of the spectrum actually manages to turn up excellent designs, so don’t shun it just yet! Oh, and we have a ton of examples this time, so brace yourself!

Welcome to the first Friday Focus for the month of July. This week: strong bursts of color and collapsible content. Curious combination? Read on!

Can’t say there’s a completely obvious unifying factor to each of the design picks this week, but they all have beautiful, detailed illustrations in them. They’re all cheerful too.
Designs of the Week

The effects on these icons are pretty cliche in some people’s books, what with the saturated hues and glassy reflections, but they’re still nice [...]

Our most recent addition to the editorial crew, Brian Self, have written a simple tutorial on how to pull data from an xml file into a Flash object. Maybe this is something that can help you in your Flash projects, building the Next Big Thing?

When Flash first made its debut online, I was really excited about all it could do. Creating more immersive environments online, Flash seemed like it was going to open up a whole new layer of experience and interaction for the web.

Quickly though, like many, I realized that over use of Flash could be a bad thing, and basically tossed it aside. What I didn’t realize at the time is how big of a role Flash was going take online as time progressed.

Now we watch Flash videos all the time, and people are quickly realizing once again how great, properly used Flash can be.

Adobe complains a fair bit about piracy of their software, and who can blame them? It’s a huge loss of profit. At least, that is what they would have us believe, but is that really the case?

I’d like to take a moment to introduce you to the newest member to join our staff team: Alex Jillard. Alex is an experienced flash and actionscript developer, who approached me about bringing flash related articles and tutorials to Devlounge. We are always looking to expand our reach, and we think by catering to flash [...]