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Cool Website Interface in Flash

Cool Website Interface in Flash

Learn to make a stunning futuristic website interface filled with all kinds of widgets and effects!
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Dropdown Menus

Dropdown Menus

Learn how to build a cool drop-down menu navigation system.
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Gel Buttons Menu

Gel Buttons Menu

Learn how to create a sleek website menu with inset gel buttons.
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Pixel Buttons

Pixel Buttons

Learn how to create pixel buttons using Flash.
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Mathematical Preloader Inside a Sphere

Mathematical Preloader Inside a Sphere

Learn to make a preloader for your Flash website.
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Make a cool 3-D logo easily

Make a cool 3-D logo easily

Make a perspective effect - a 3-D logo entirely in Flash following my easy explanations.
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Make modern Web 2.0 buttons

Make modern Web 2.0 buttons

Use only pure ActionScript to create stunning buttons. Learn to create graphics, import fonts and make polished gradients.
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Cool runtime blur effect!

Cool runtime blur effect!

Use ActionScript to apply an interactive blur effect to your menu buttons the easiest way possible!
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Shiny polished 3-D orb

Shiny polished 3-D orb

Create an amazing sphere thanks to filters, bevel modes and advanced fills available in Flash!
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Build A Menu/Loader

Build A Menu/Loader

This tutorial will teach you how to create a complete website navigation system with a loader for external Flash SWF files.
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Flash coordinate system

Flash coordinate system

I will explain you how to use the coordinate system in Flash, with and without ActionScript.
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Blue neon glow buttons

Blue neon glow buttons

Create great looking, glowing neon playback buttons using the cool graphic capabilities that Flash has available.
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Create a hangman game

Create a hangman game

Make a completely dynamic hangman game and learn to load and manipulate XML and TXT data in Flash with ActionScript. Create buttons at runtime, use Arrays to store data, and much more.
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Cool ice text made in Flash

Cool ice text made in Flash

I will show you how to very quickly make ice text in Flash. Using no third-party applications whatsoever!
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Random color fx banner with timers

Random color fx banner with timers

Create an advanced banner ad in Flash by using powerful ActionScript techniques. Make the colors on your banner dance, create an invisible interactive button and more.
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Fun with interactive speech balloons

Fun with interactive speech balloons

Learn to make funny speech balloons applied to a classic painting. Make invisible buttons, move the balloon around and more! Easy to follow tutorial explains how.
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Stylish bouncing logo

Stylish bouncing logo

Use the easing option to make a bouncing logo animation, emulatin real-world physics. You will see how to create a fade-in animation too.
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Switch/case conditional logic power

Switch/case conditional logic power

Learn to implement the switch-case conditional logic in your SWF movies by following this extremely detailed tutorial with clear explanations.
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Big beautiful promo button

Big beautiful promo button

Create a real eye-catcher: a promo button with nested animations, fast-scrolling text and beveling effects!
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Attractive Preloader

Attractive Preloader

Make a bottle that is gradually appearing as your website loads. You will see how to use a mask with an image, and some nifty ActionScript tricks.
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The use of if-else conditional code

The use of if-else conditional code

Make your SWF movie decide by itself what to do based on the current circumstances! Learn to use the if-else conditional logic in ActionScript 2.0.
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Glimmering shine rollover effect

Glimmering shine rollover effect

Learn to design and code a great eye-catching effect suitable for Flash web site interfaces. Most detailed explanations on every aspect of this Flash special fx.
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Making a vector map from a bitmap

Making a vector map from a bitmap

Learn to create a pure vector map, which will look sharp and clean, by using the drawing tools in Flash. A bitmap picture will serve as a model.
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Animate Planets Around the Sun

Animate Planets Around the Sun

Learn to make an animation that follows a circular motion guide path, import images and much more with this detailed and easy tutorial!
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High quality animated 3D bar button

High quality animated 3D bar button

Learn to make a great button for interfaces and menus. The button is animated and uses the great graphical design capabilities of Flash 8.
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Camera focus blur-sharp animation

Camera focus blur-sharp animation

Create an interactive image that changes its depth of field in relation to user interaction. Cool realistic focus transition effects!
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360-degree VR Pan

360-degree VR Pan

Create a VR banner ad that has infinite animation and also a separate animation for the ad message.
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ActionScript line drawing basics

ActionScript line drawing basics

This tutorial will teach you to make lines and curves with ActionScript. Simple and gradient fills follow after this first step.
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Automatic screen readout text

Automatic screen readout text

See how to create an old-school monitor that displays text by itself. A nice effect seen in spy movies, it has just a few lines of ActionScript. In-depth explanations of each step and chunk of code.
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MP3 Music Player With Equalizers

MP3 Music Player With Equalizers

In this lesson, you will see how easy it is to create an effective mp3 player for your Flash and/or HTML websites. Complete with play / stop buttons!
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The best preloader for Flash 8

The best preloader for Flash 8

This lesson shows you clearly and with easy explanations how to make a preloader that shows how much of your site has been loaded through both visual and numeric data. 3-in-1 preloader!
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Reflection effect menu

Reflection effect menu

Build a menu that has its buttons mirrored below it. Set up a complete site navigation in Flash with this easy tutorial.
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Shining glass sphere made in Flash

Shining glass sphere made in Flash

This easy tutorial shows you how to use the blending filters in Flash 8 to create a realistic shiny orb.
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Dynamic Masking ActionScript Effect

Dynamic Masking ActionScript Effect

Learn to quickly create a mask with ActionScript that can be dragged around! Simple tutorial for a cool effect.
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Make a drawing pad for your website

Make a drawing pad for your website

Learn to create a drawing pad from scratch, with selectable colors and line thickness.
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Guided motion tween animation

Guided motion tween animation

Make two aircraft chase one another with this detailed tutorial! You will se how to make two movie clips follow the same motion path.
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Trace method and comments explained

Trace method and comments explained

This tutorial is best suited for ActionScript novices. Learn to use a big help in ActionScript - the trace command.
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Make a 468x60 banner ad in Flash

Make a 468x60 banner ad in Flash

This easy lesson will teach you to create an effective 468x60 ad banner in Flash. Step-by-step explanation makes clear every important aspect of ad banners design in Flash.
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Resizeable gradient background

Resizeable gradient background

Code an adaptable background that fits any movie scene with this easy ActionScript tutorial.
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Interactive information-rich map

Interactive information-rich map

An online country map is a frequent element of many websites. Learn to create an interactive map which is easy and clear to use for site visitors, and also easy for you to make. Different sections, like interface work, ActionScript and visual aspect are all thoroughly explained.
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Mouse pointer replacement

Mouse pointer replacement

Create a new cursor for your mouse and show its current coordinates on the screen as it is moved around.
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Making a custom-looking site

Making a custom-looking site

Learn to make a site that can change the way it looks, depending on user's wishes. You will see how to make a site change its colors and text easily.
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Moving and rotating a spaceship

Moving and rotating a spaceship

Design and code button symbols which will serve to move and rotate a space ship movie clip symbol. This tutorial is suited for beginners.
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Loading JPG pictures into Flash

Loading JPG pictures into Flash

Learn to load JPEG pictures into Flash with a click of a button. Also, learn to create a preloader for the images for users of Internet Explorer.
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Pac-Man animation creation

Pac-Man animation creation

New to Flash? Learn to make a motion tween, frame-by-frame animation and animation inside movie clip symbols by creating the classic Pac-Man!
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Tabbed menu creation

Tabbed menu creation

In this lesson, you will learn to create a tab menu for your flash site(s). It is nice and effective!
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Animated scrolling mask ad banner

Animated scrolling mask ad banner

Learn how to easily and quickly create an ad banner containing an animated masking text. The effect is cool and powerful, yet easy to learn!
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The use of the modulo operator

The use of the modulo operator

Learn to implement the modulo operator in ActionScript 2.0. Make Flash tell if a number is odd or even.
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St. Valentine's Day Ad Banner

St. Valentine's Day Ad Banner

Learn to create an impressive ad banner for Valentine's Day. Random effects are achieved when the user interacts with the banner.
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Mouse cursor preloader

Mouse cursor preloader

Learn to make a preloader that is acting as the cursor while the movie is loading.
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Masking Effect with Easing

Masking Effect with Easing

Create a mask that is following the user's mouse as it moves on the screen. The sliding effect is revealing an image.
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Making a digital alarm clock

Making a digital alarm clock

This tutorial shows how to create a digital alarm clock with LCD screen and a metal frame. The user can choose a time and set the clock to ring at that exact minute.
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Retro gaming style animated buttons

Retro gaming style animated buttons

Learn to create animated buttons in flash that have a nice old school games look. The animations shows up when you pass your mouse over the buttons. This interface is just 6.49 KB in size!
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Analog ActionScript Clock

Analog ActionScript Clock

This tutorial shows you how to create an analog clock, with no designing on the flash stage whatsoever! Just moveTo, lineTo and the like! You even get to make the clock hands and the shiny frame with programming!
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Hi tech draggable floating menu

Hi tech draggable floating menu

Learn how to design a sleek hi-tech floating draggable menu and the ActionScript that makes it tick too. You can create a complete flash site with this interface.
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