11 Flash tips, tutorials, techniques & resources
Designing Grid Systems For Flash
"I’ve decided that I’m going to write a little something up for those people interested in grids. I’m going to walk you through the process of creating a grid for a Flash based site. The beauty of creating a grid for Flash is that you can create a fixed grid and don’t have to be concerned with the user changing type sizes and screwing up the entire grid of the site."
Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of
"This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. We’ve tried to select most interesting and useful tutorials. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials."
Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More
"You don’t have to re-invent the wheel all the time - you can use existing solutions, modify and improve them and publish them as well - just the way other people did it for you. In this post we’ve covered over 200 Ajax, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML as well as ASP, C++, Perl, Python and Java tutorials."
Captions for Video with Flash CS3
"I discovered a feature that no one was talking about. (Don’t believe me? As of this writing, it has yet to be mentioned by Adobe and was totally overlooked during the unveiling in March.) The feature: the captioning component in Flash Professional CS3."
List of Image Cropping Scripts
"After looking for awhile for a script that will crop your image in the browser I decided to put a list together. I found various types of scripts that will accomplish this. The list below is a list of image cropping scripts."
Search Engine Optimization and Non-HTML Sites
"What’s the good of building a great-looking Web site that no one knows about, or can find? Unfortunately, that is the reality of building Web sites entirely in Flash."
Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet
"Slowly but surely, Flash is finding its way into the standardista’s toolkit, not as an alternative, but as a supplement. In the first installment of a new series, Dan Mall surveys the rise of standards-friendly Flash and builds a “shiny floor” generator for your pleasure."
Flash Embedding Cage Match
"Examine the most popular Flash embedding methods to see how good they really are."
Photoshop to Flash
"Paul Wyatt reveals how to transfer your Photoshop artwork into Flash using CS3’s new PSD Importer to create movie clips, add instance names and ready your creations for animation and interactivity"
Flash animation for the web
"Combine your imagination with a sprinkling of technical know-how to make your characters burst off the page and into the dynamic realm of the internet..."
Dynamic Flash-based portfolio
"Slingshot shows you how to create an online portfolio that’s quick to load, easy to update and displays your best work"