[2003-05-28] Transparent Flash and DHTML Layers
You can't go to a major web site anymore and not have an ad pop-up on you, layered over all your text. Usually they're done in Flash, complete with animation and interactive features. Nissan has produced some of the coolest buy far. Microsoft has a new one out promoting their mobility capabilities that takes over your whole screen (click here
and refresh till it shows).
[2003-05-19] XML for UI Description in Flash MX
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last several years, you've no doubt been bombarded with the hype surrounding a simple, plain text technology named XML - eXtensible Markup Language. But even with the books, magazines, and web sites dedicated to XML, many developers still have no idea what XML really is, or even how they can use XML in their applications.
[2003-05-13] Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX - Book Excerpt
Macromedia's release of the MX Studio essentially turned their entire web product line inside out and rearranged the molecules. Instead of separate products performing specialized tasks, the tight integration of the tools-Freehand, Flash MX, Fireworks MX, Dreamweaver MX, and ColdFusion MX-means an entirely new, more efficient workflow can develop. A major workflow change is how objects created in each of the applications move easily between the applications. Dragging and dropping, importing, copying, and pasting between the applications can accomplish this, but one of the more significant aspects of the new workflow is the use of symbols.
[2003-05-02] Simple Bar Preloader Tutorial
The idea behind this preloader is that we halt the progression of the movie and find out our filesize. We find then find out how much of that is loaded, use these numbers to create a percentage and then affect the scale of our bar to represent this.
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