Emak Mafu Labs Blog

We have installed a Flex Wiki (Flexipedia) so please share what you can on there. Currently it is pretty empty (in fact, it’s completely empty) but we will try and get as much on there as soon as we can.

Opera have got a neat tool to let you check your sites on their browser. No flash support, but I’m sure it will come. Have a look here.

I hope this post makes it to the first page of Google, because I’m getting a bit tierd checking there for some inspiration, or a new tool to help with this problem that plagues our image as Flash Developers, ‘Cool site, but bad SEO’.

Its time to provide a solution…. Emak Mafu has taken it upon our sly selves to solve this worldwide problem once and for all - Mafugle! Its as powerful as its Celtic sounding name and bites as hard as the dog it could be named after!

Our Goal is to provide a simple extra process to the Roll-Out’ phase of a Flash site, by Mafugling it (in place anywhere on the web), all the nessesary Xhtml files will be created per section, including all the links and images the flash site benefits from, so even Google images will have a chance to spy your images and add them to the very popular images.google.com. These files will appear next to your .swf, and some cunning code will be put into your index file directing all the searchbots to the SEO files, instead of tying to figure out the contents of the .swf.

How this will work:
The only purpose of the .SWF is to provide a nice way of displaying the data in the database. Its like CSS for xHtml. So following the rules of W3c, splitting design and structure is already done for us. So all that is left is to point all the necessary parts of an html page, like the title, body, images etc to the correct database entry, and wola! Its that simple - then throw in a Flex application to house such a process which will make the whole process as un-techy as your Gran, then badabing! - oh, did i mention that all the SEo file will actually be dynamic, so change anything in the database, all of your SEO files will mimic this information, so its a kin of, apply once, and reep the rewards kind of application.

Check back in the next few week, an alpha should already be installed on a clients website, i’ll let you guys know how it goes, and maybe give an estimate for when you can get your hands on it

This ones for everyone who’s sich of PHPMyAdmin! Need quick and easy data entry? Fed up with html refreshes?

Check out the online demo: