With this tutorial, you will learn how to make a basic preloader which shows how much of the Flash movie in which it resides has loaded. This kind of preloader is best used with small movies, intros and the like.
Classic tab menu creation
October 8th, 2008 by
You will learn to create one of the most widely used web site navigation interfaces in this lesson: the tab menu.
Before starting to design, click on the menu tabs of the two examples below to see what you’ll be working towards.
Creating aqua style buttons
October 8th, 2008 by
Ever wanted to make those shiny, nice looking aqua buttons? Yes, but in Flash? You can make them in Photoshop or Fireworks. But creating them directly in Flash makes your file size a lot smaller (the SWF file below this text has only 2 KB!), enables you to change the color of a button more easily, to transform other aspects of the button (create a Mac-style type of tab, for example), without going back to a paint or similar program to adjust it and export it anew for Flash. So, let’s get down to work!
Creating Movie Clips
October 8th, 2008 by
This tutorial explains how to create a Movie Clip, what is the Library in Flash, what is an instance, how to modify a Movie Clip.
Creating a Flash ad banner from start to finish
October 7th, 2008 by
In this in-depth tutorial, you will learn how to make a typical 468 x 60 Flash banner ad, from start to finish, with every step thoroughly explained. You will learn how to:
- make an invisible button that acts as a link
- optimize your banner for previous versions of the Flash Player
- learn the basics about events and event handlers in Flash
- what kinds of requirements you can expect from your client
Basic Motion Tween Animation
October 6th, 2008 by
In this lesson, you will learn how to create a simple Motion Tween animation. In other lessons, I will show you how to use some advanced capabilities of this type of animation, such as easing, changing the color, shape and transparency of your object.
Controlling the timeline with ActionScript
October 6th, 2008 by
This tutorial shows how to control the timeline in a Flash movie. You will learn the essential commands: how to play a movie, how to stop it, how to jump to a particular frame on the timeline.