I think this might just be my favourite Flash Site of 2009. The grid layout is beautifully executed with a great attention to detail, clearly crafted by an expertly restrained hand. Oh and the work is pretty damn good too.

I have to confess I have no idea what VOB do (other than commission great Flash sites) or what this site is all about, but you have got to love the creativity on display here.

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The eagle eyed among you will notice that this months free font is not technically free, but at $9, you would have to be a Scrooge not to think its a great deal. Good quality seasonal fonts can be very hard to find, so Ebenezer is something of a rarity.

One of the first things you will notice when you start using Actionscript 3 is Movieclip’s no longer automatically invoke the hand cursor once you set a mouse event. Fortunately the solution is simple:

yourBtn.buttonMode=true;
yourBtn.useHandCursor=true;

Now if you just have a textfield inside your Movieclip you are probably wondering why that blasted hand cursor is still hiding from you. To solve this add:

yourBtn.mouseChildren=false;

Setting mouseChildern to false ignores the mouse clicks of all the children inside the Movieclip. What’s super handy about this property is you no longer need to included hidden hotspots as the whole text area becomes the hotspot (not just the text)