PXL Designs

David A. Flatley, President and Chief Technology Officer, founded PXL Designs, LLC in the summer of 2006 as a natural outgrowth of his freelance consulting business in the New York City Metropolitan area. He has provided services, from graphic design through multimedia and RIA (Rich Internet Applications) development, to a large selection of clients in a variety of industries over the past 8 years. Working as a consultant for such notable clients as Fidelity, Fleer, Redmond Software, DRS Technologies, Merrill Lynch and Selective Insurance has allowed him to acquire a comprehensive background in a variety of industries.

With the emergence of Web 2.0 and RIA products such as Adobe's Flash, Flex, AIR and Flash Media Server, PXL Designs has established a core offering of technology solutions centered on these products that enable our clients to evolve flexible applications to meet both their current needs and future demands.

A major goal of PXL Designs is to give back to the community by providing other developers with open source code and components in order to further advance RIA knowledge and technologies. Downloads and tutorials, or general information can be found on our blog along with helpful tips and suggestions.

Dave is also very active with blogging, you can read more about PXL Designs, LLC on our company blog: PXL Blog. Dave's personal blog can be found here www.DavidFlatley.com.

PXL Designs and CAB Design teamed up to create Peekaboo Paperie.com's new website and custom Baby Announcement Creator Flex application. Peekaboo Paperie makes baby announcements with personality, and the coolest part of the site is that it uses Adobe Flex 3 to allow customers to check out their baby's pictures in the announcement before they purchase.

The custom application handles a number of server calls to create some highly useful and dynamic functionality for the designers at Peekaboo Paperie. One example is creating a snap shot instance on the server when a customer customizes an announcement and makes a purchase. This enables the designers to view precisely what the customer created when they made the order, and helps Peekaboo Paperie's designers out immensely.

With their newly created, high-end custom application, Peekaboo Paperie now has solid web presence that enables them to reach the global marketplace and grow their business opportunities. Check back for more updates in the future as we continue to add to PeekabooPaperie.com!

Mezzy Shredder is a client of ours, a musician on his way to fame and this site will certainly help him get the exposure. This site's goal was to provide him with a means of sharing his music, pictures and information online for his fans and serve as his online portfolio.

The main objectives on this project were to provide a 'cool' overall experience for the end user and keep the music pumping throughout the site without interruption. Another perfect project for Flex 2.0. The layout scheme allows the user to navigate anywhere in the site and view pictures, read information, or contact Mezzy without interrupting the songs.

The user can control the music at their discretion and continue to navigate away from the mp3 player and find the information on Mezzy that they're seeking. The ease of development with Flex Builder allowed for Mezzy to receive a fully functioning, interactive site in no time flat. Short of Flex, there wouldn't have been any other technologies that could provide this quality in a timely fashion for this client. Keep checking back to see the updates as they come www.mezzyshredder.com.

Future updates to the site will include more songs, pictures, and information and we're currently pulling together some very cool video of Mezzy shredding it up to add at a later date. Stay tuned for updates!

PXL Designs has been fortunate indeed to have a long-standing professional relationship with Tapper Nimer & Associates, encompassing a number of ongoing endeavors. We provide development assistance on a variety of Flash and Flex projects, RIA applications and websites. Our latest collaboration has been the Tapper Nimer website, which recently went live.

The success of Tapper, Nimer & Associates, however, grew so quickly that Jeff Tapper and Mike Nimer have recently merged with Mike Labriola to form Digital Primates IT Consulting. www.digitalprimates.net.

Jeff Tapper in particular has shared his guidance and mentoring from the early days when we were co-workers elsewhere, through the years of the Flash/Flex evolution.

We were fortunate enough to work with Creative Perspectives on some Flash projects. Their creativity and professionalism makes them a joy to work for. You can visit their site at www.creativeperspectives.com and take a look at the long list of awards they have acquired over the years.