Ben Stucki has recently posted a free Visual Reflection component for Flex 2. It includes properties for custom fading, skewing and scaling. The reflection is real-time.

Check out his blog here!

Pete Freitag has continuted on his series of blog posts about building web forms that aren't annoying. His key points were to use scripting to enhance the experience on a form, but make sure the form works if the user has Javascript turned off.

Another point he brings up is alignment and spacing are important.

"I think the one thing that makes or breaks any design is the alignment and spacing. Good design typically has aligned objects with adequate spacing. Poor design is typically not aligned, and has very little spacing between elements."

Read the entire blog post here

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Sho Kuwamoto has coded a new effect for Flex. Its the Explode effect. The effect basically overlays a copy of an object over the object itself and zooms it larger as it fades.

You can see his blog entry here!