As of a few minutes ago, FlashDen members subscribed to our FoxMail mailing list will have received the latest edition of our newsletter delivered to their inboxes. Remarkably we’re up to the 9th newsletter, despite my most erratic sending habits!

If you aren’t subscribed, you can still see both this edition and all our back-issues right here on Down the Foxhole, all the way back to March ‘07 when we sent our first mailout. There’s also a subscribe form in case you suddenly change your mind after being blown away with the quality of the editorial

I also have a few small things to mention that are about to happen here at Eden. The first is we’re changing our name! Thanks to some trademarking issues, we’re going to be changing from Eden to … something else. All will be revealed shortly.

Additionally we’re about to launch our third marketplace site in a matter of days. It’ll initially be in a beta phase available only by invite as we stock up on content, and then we’ll open to the world. It’s perhaps the most exciting launch of the year for us, and I for one, can’t wait!

Since we extended our family of sites a couple of weeks ago, all of a sudden a lot of our marketing materials have needed updates. Last week we sent out a brand new multi-site mailout, and this week it’s time for our referral banners to update.

The new banners match across both FlashDen and AudioJungle, and look a bit more eye catching. You can grab all the standard IAB sized banners via our referral program page as well as an extra download of both the AudioJungle and FlashDen logos in vector and PSD formats.

The adverts also feature our new marketing phrase, “Your Choice for …”. We’ve thought long and hard about what words we’d like our brand to be associated with, and the word Choice always came up, not only because we want buyers to choose to buy FlashDen/AudioJungle, but because there’s such a huge range of items for sale.

So if you’re a FlashDen referrer, be sure to update your banners. And don’t forget, you can also refer users to AudioJungle and get credited for purchases they make on either site.

Yesterday we mentioned it was on its way, and today I’m happy to announce that AudioJungle is officially online. You can access it via the top right of FlashDen where there is a little Flash | Audio switcher.

It’s a bit of a quiet launch today as we’re still running early tests to see how it performs out in the wild so to speak. Then tomorrow the marketing will begin as we work to get AudioJungle known and recognised, and of course to boost our audio author’s sales! Read More …

Since we launched this blog a couple of months ago, it’s always bothered me that the design looked like it was an afterthought. Since I had the task of creating an AudioJungle blog theme, I thought it was a good time to give the whole lot a refresh. And so, as you can see the foxhole is looking much more glamorous than before!

And I’ve got a few more features to come too. Next week I’ll be adding a User Link Feed, like we have at PSDTUTS and NETTUTS and also a “Awesome Flash Sites” feed, courtesy of our inspiration gallery FaveUp.

We’re also going to open up the blog for guest contributions, so if you’d like to write an article or tutorial on Flash, then let us know! We’ll include a link in the article back to your URL or FD homepage, as well as a two line bio.

There’s nothing worse than opening a Flash file and not knowing how to customize it or edit it. Where’s the ActionScript located? How do I edit the XML file? This is why Flashden introduced “Quality of Documentation” to all Flash files about a year ago. By allowing our authors to provide documentation and then allowing our reviewers to carefully rate the documentation, the result has been not only increased customer satisfaction, but a better way for authors to offer support to customers which has indirectly lead to an increase in file sales.

Having kept a close eye on Flash documentation for over 12 months and having investigated ways to improve our documentation structure and process, Flashden is pleased to announce a new and very important requirement: Documentation is now compulsory for ALL Flash files.
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There have been lots of things happening on FD this week. Here are the highlights:

The Updated and Improved Asset Library Is Live - New Assets and Easier Downloads!

Authors rejoice! The new and improved asset library is live! There are over 100 new assets to play with, now organized into handy themed packs for download.

Here are a few things to note:

• Our own ADG3Studios has created a set of AMAZING audio loops for your templates. There’s more coming soon from ADG3, so stay tuned.
• Triworks has donated almost 70 awesome 3D image assets for you authors to enjoy!

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There’s nothing like a spring clean to make you feel fresh and snappy. And since much of the world is in the height of spring, we thought we’d give FlashDen a little rejig in the form of a pair of new homepages coupled with a reskin of many of the site’s colours, header and footer.

So what’s new?
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This is just a quick post to let all our authors know that as of midnight last night FlashDen’s Copyright Amnesty was closed.

From today a team of FlashDen staff will be trawling through every file on FlashDen looking for anything that is not copyright compliant. If they find a file that does not comply with copyright they will contact the author and a copyright compliant update will need to be uploaded in two weeks - or the file will be disabled. If the author has been warned about copyright violations previously their file will be immediately disabled.

Remember, if you can prove you’re not violating copyright we will immediately re-enable the file, so never fear. Otherwise, if you haven’t done already, update any file that is not copyright compliant before the FD copyright hounds find it!

As always, if you have any queries contact Support.

As authors will know, here at FlashDen we have been going through a period of tightening our copyright policy. For the last month we have held a copyright amnesty - a time when all authors could make their files copyright compliant.

In that time we have begun upgrading the Asset Library too, and now have over 100 new photographs with more coming soon. However, we’ve decided to make it better, so that no author has a reason not to be copyright compliant with their assets.

We have decided to extend the copyright amnesty until April 15 2008. That means that you have until then to update your files if you need to.
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After more than a year, the FlashDen blog is back, and here to stay!

For those of you who were around with FlashDen in its early days, we used to have a blog called “Down the Foxhole” where I posted news and articles. Around early 2007 we had some plans to move it to another domain, and it got “temporarily” shelved. After many months it’s finally been revived here at blog.flashden!

So what can you expect here at the blog? Well competitions will be moving here, extras like the Showroom, site announcements - which up until now have been getting lost on the forums, and general articles and posts about Flash. Most importantly the blog will be another avenue for communication and discussion - something we all love at FlashDen!

I’m still putting the final touches on the blog, and then we’ll begin importing the latest stories to the homepage and put announcements up on the forums to let everyone know!