FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

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Adobe Flash - Macromedia's own site on learning how to use their flash product.

Beginners guide - Flash 5 tutorial - Macromedia flash 5 tutorial for beginners

Building a flash radio using an XML playlist - Build a flash based radio that uses an XML playlist to play the songs. An easy to understand tutorial with downloadable source files.

CartoonSmart.com - Free Flash files and tutorials. Lesson covers animation, drawing cartoons, creating cool buttons, and text design. Free files posted weekly.

CBT Cafe - Flash Tutorials - Tutorial resource site featuring tutorials in both HTML and QuickTime Video format for Flash.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Flash Tutorials - Collection of Macromedia Flash tutorials from author of Complete Idiot's Guide to Flash, David Karlins.

The Cortex Project - An experimental Flash site which explores the uses of multimedia on the web. Source (.fla) files are provided to help others as we have been helped.

Creating Realistic Orbits in Flash - Tutorial explaining the steps necessary to creating a realistic orbit in Macromedia Flash 5.

Debreuil Digital Works - Flash 5 OOP tutorial - In depth and entertaining tutorial on building Object-Oriented Applications in Flash 5.

Flash 99% Good - This site aims to help flash developers create more usable content using examples and tips.

Flash Bible - Lots of tutorials, like how to keep track of a counter for scoring purposes in a game, and flying text.

Flashgeek - Home of the unholy matrimony of Macromedia Flash and Microsoft Powerpoint. Tutorials, discussions, code, and pointers can be found here.

High octane or do flash programmers dream of interactive sheep? - What is it that makes a Flash site really sing? What sets apart the masters from everyone else. This is an article about interactivity and concludes with a case study on Matt

Joen's Flash Study - Joen's Flash Study is a new area of the StreamingMediaWorld (SMW), focused entirely on Macromedia Flash 4.

Moock.org - Flash - Colin Moock, author of O'Reilly's 'ActionScript: The Definitive Guide' posts news, tutorials, experiments, and source files for Flash designers and developers. Highlights include articles on programming fundamentals, motion code, multiuser applications, server connectivity, interface widgets, and a Flash detection scheme. Moock also posts his games and cartoons here.

NPG Flash Design & Flash Experiments - Unique downloadable experiments in Flash 4 and Flash 5. New experiments added fortnightly.

Polar Lights Studios Labs - Tutorials, .fla Flash source files and sounds for Flash. Examples of integrating Flash with Java, Perl, PHP, ASP databases and etc.

Praystation - Joshua Davis explores relations in Flash programming, featuring advanced tutorials and source fla's. Joshua claims that information architecture should emulate video game design and interaction.

Round World Media - Animated Tutorial on Flash 5 - Use Flash 5 to learn Flash 5. This self-paced tutorial uses animation and narration to guide you through the creation of a humorous interactive e-greeting card that you can publish or send. On one side of the screen you watch the tutorial, while other side, you work in flash.

SmartWebby's Guide to Flash 'n' ASP Unleashed - Learn integrating Flash and ASP. This guide teaches, challenges and initiates you into trying to build products by yourself.

Tutorial on How to use Flash with CGI Scripting - Brief example of how to use CGI with Flash 4. Note that you need to know Java, Action Scripting, and a Scripting Language.

WDVL : Flash 5 - Shawn Ryder's article on the latest features of Macromedia's Flash product, from the Web Developer's Virtual Library.

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