Tutorials
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New Tutorials [2007-08-17] Create a Slideshow in Flash [2004-05-13] Film Grain [2004-05-10] WebProWorld and CartoonSmart Launch Contest for Flash Animators Are you a Flash animator or interested in learning more about Flash animation? [2004-04-07] Thinking About Color Fifty years ago, if you turned on your T. V. you would have seen My Three Sons in brilliant black and white. Very few print advertisements went beyond 3-color printing and the internet wasn’t even a glimmer in Al Gore’s eye. Color, for the graphic designer, was a mere novelty, meant only for the most high-end projects and package design. Color, once too expensive to use whimsically, is now expected for the most part. Black and white has come to represent the high-end and artistic. [2004-04-05] Flash based web sites and the search engines As with many of my articles and newsletters, this one is inspired by a question put to me: “Is it true that you should not have a flash web site since search engines do not recognize flash? ” The short answer to the question is yes and no.  Search engines traditionally cannot see flash - but since Flash 4, Macromedia (the guys who make Flash) built into Flash the capability to be ’seen’ by the engines. Today search engines like AlltheWeb.com, Lycos and Google among others can index (see into) Flash movies, but only in a limited way. As far as I can tell, the engines can only extract links from the Flash movies and not much else. Compare this to an HTML page where the search engine robots (the automated programs that search engines use to surf and catalogue the web) can read everything about the page and thus your web site will have a much better chance of appearing in the search engines. [2004-03-18] Product Review: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 Corel has put out a great deal of quality products throughout the years. But ever since Macromedia became a player, Corel has been running a close third in the market of graphics software. [2004-02-23] Looping movies with Flash MX 2004 It has come to my attention from working with Flash MX 2004 Professional that there isn’t a quick way to loop a movie a certain amount of times without using action script. To find a better solution and a quick fix for a friend over the week I have come up with the following solution. While this is not the perfect solution to the problem it works and it works well. [2004-02-03] The 2004 FlashintheCan Festival - The Design and Technology Festival Now in its third year, the 2004 FlashintheCan Festival is the only Canadian Festival of its kind; combining cutting edge seminars presented by over 75 internationally recognized designers and developers. The FlashintheCan Festival attracts conference attendees, award entrees, and presenters from around the globe, and is proudly sponsored by Macromedia. [2004-01-23] Working with Flash MX 2004 and PHP This tutorial is going to show you a very basic method of sending information from Flash to an external PHP script. This is merely a primer to get you working with using Flash for forms and dynamic content. The actual code for this tutorial can be used IN lower versions of Flash, but the actual process is written for Flash MX 2004. [2004-01-16] Suggestions for a Flash Designer: Real World Example Earlier this week I received a site submission I found very interesting. After reviewing the site I started typing out ideas that could help the designer. Some comments were about Flash, and were some about other design aspects. After reviewing my comments to the designer I realized that these were suggestions that many designers could take into consideration when developing sites. [2004-01-09] CSS Template Layout - part 1 of 3 Having been asked by several readers, I have decided to create this easy to understand tutorial on creating web pages with CSS. I will not be able to expose to you everything there is about CSS in this tutorial, but I will be able to give you enough to create a nice looking page. After completing this tutorial you should have enough to explore CSS and web page design even further. [2004-01-07] Using Flash and Java to create Pop-Ups With Flash it is quite common to have a customized pop up window to hold your flash movie. This is almost always done using HTML and JavaScript. Well, what about having buttons in your flash movies that will open customized pop up windows? [2004-01-07] Use of an Entry/Splash page Over the past few days I have been zooming through sites looking at different designs for inspiration and ideas. During my site viewing time I came to realize things I hate about web designers. These are things that caused me to close my browser window before the site loaded or even not visit the site at all. Perhaps you’ll agree with me and use some of these tips when you’re designing sites. [2004-01-07] FlashNewz - Quick Tip Changing the FPS for flash movies can help keep your animation from jumping. [2004-01-07] Flash Intros are Dead Ok, I know that we have all seen great intros but when you get down to it… Flash intros are dead. Unless you’re using the intro as a presentation and/or you have mad design skills it’s probably best to leave the Intro out. [2004-01-07] Pro’s and Con’s of MX 2004 [2004-01-07] Creating a Custom Mouse Curser in Flash This week I’m going to show you how to make your mouse arrow customized using simple actionscript in Flash. This is a neat effect you can use if you want the mouse to match the scheme of your site, but try not to go overboard as lots of Flash developers have done in the past. |
