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Introducing Open Source, Web-Native Flash Frontal is an intuitive markup & scripting language that generates Flash. Now
you can create interactive content, sites, and apps with a few lines of code. "This looks fantastic! I’ll definitely give it a go."
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@rjoshicool"Interesting standards based approach."
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@greystockton"Awesome."
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• Based on the same transparent web standards as HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Embeds and works seamlessly with HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax, etc
• Supports full SEO, deep linking, and integration with web-native apps
• Open source license based on the OSI approved Simplified BSD License

Get started!I'm ready to download and start codingDownload Frontal 1.8
User's Guide
Deploying Frontal
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in a hosted environmentFrontal Workspace Tutorials
See how easy it is to create

Photo Booth Ad Embedded in HTML

Fluid Layout
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Interactions
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Portfolio Site
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Custom Video Interface
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Flickr Feed Collage
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Basic Slideshow
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Papervision3D Gallery
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Projects created with FrontalOne Hawthorne Luxury Residences View SiteEpoch Films View SiteNew York Magazine Online Media Kit View SiteBarbie Social Widget View SiteLincoln Park 2520 View Site1 Vernon Jackson View SiteRoman Thomas View SiteLarga Vista View SiteSee how it works

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Join the New Wave of Rich Media Design We've been working on Frontal for over five years now. In fact, a number of major sites started running the first version of the language back in 2007. From then on, it became clear that we were on to something—a way for rich media designers to create and collaborate like never before. The way we look at things Flash should be simple & easy.
Designers shouldn't have to toil their way through multiple development environments to get something running.

Rich media needs to be web-native.
Full SEO, deep linking, and seamless integration with web standards like HTML and JavaScript should be the norm.

Rich media should be easy-to-maintain, reusable, and fully customizable.
Recreating the wheel every time is no fun. A new approach To make this happen, we created a new approach to web-based rich media design—an intuitive markup & scripting language that generates Flash.

Frontal is based on the same transparent web standards as HTML and JavaScript. But instead of being converted into standard web pages, Frontal markup & script is converted into Flash content, video, animations, sites and apps. 1. Designer writes a Frontal document
(a block of code) 2. A small file on the website’s server
called the Frontal SWF reads it and
converts it to Flash 3. The Flash is rendered on any
browser with a Flash plug-in
(99% of all browsers have one) 1 of 3Powerful & expandable Frontal consists of simple tags and scripts that do powerful things—things that usually require a huge amount of Flash development time & effort. And you can even create your own custom tags to do the things we haven't thought of yet.

We also endowed Frontal with a rich media style sheet engine that's very similar to CSS, but much, much better. Letting you build extensive rich media websites with fluid layouts in no time. Remember how painful / impossible it is to update or revise Flash pages? No longer. Web-native & flexible Frontal is completely flexible—you can embed a Frontal document (a block of code) into HTML, Flash, or within another Frontal document. You can also embed Flash and Flash-supported HTML within Frontal. 1. Multiple Frontal documents
within an HTML page 2. Frontal documents within a Flash file 3. Frontal documents within a
Frontal document 1 of 3 Frontal lets you:
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Do the complex things Flash can do with a few lines of text

Easily maintain, update, reuse, and customize rich media

Review your designs in real-time

Build Flash content that's fully indexable by search engines

Deep link to rich media content like images and video cue points

Create fluid layouts as well as full browser & full screen layouts

Optimize asset loading so that pages render fast

Do everything from rapid prototyping to final production in one environment

Easily work with Flash, ActionScript, Papervision3D and JavaScript libraries

Implement multilingual support within one layout

Contact Frontal, Inc.
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New York, NY 10001 Tel: 646.201.9347

For general inquiries please email: info@frontalcode.com

To report bugs, please use the link at the bottom of the page or email:
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