Hot Adobe Flash How-Tos
How To: Build a 3D room in Flash Catalyst
Create a 3-D room using Flash Catalyst. This tutorial shows you how to get a 3-D effect using several different planes to look like walls, floors and ceilings. All the techniques you'll need to know are demonstrated in this easy to follow step by step tutorial.
How To: Create a Facebook application using Flash and ActionScript
Facebook has provided developers with a whole library of code usable for creating applications. This tutorial shows you how to get the code, and then how to use it so you can start developing your own Facebook apps using Adobe Flash and Action Script
How To: Add a user interface scrollbar component to your Flash based project
A scrollbar adds a little bit of user interactivity to your website, letting visitors navigate and helping you optimize page space as well. This tutorial shows you how to utilize the scrollbar component when you're building a website in Adobe Flash CS3.
How To: Build a Flash-based photo gallery in ActionScript 3
Use the Flash CS3 website builder and the Action Script code to load in a series of images, then create Next and Previous buttons so you can add a gallery or slideshow feature to your website. Allow users to browse images or a portfolio on your website!
How To: Use the Motion Editor with Motion Tweening in Adobe Flash CS5
Motion tweening is one of the core techniques used to create Flash animations in Adobe CS5. This video demonstrates how an animator can use tweening together with the motion editor available in Creative Suite 5 to perfect any animated Flash projects.
How To: Create a Klingon 'Hello World' application for Facebook using Adobe Flash
Create a Star Trek-themed Facebook application! This tutorial shows you how to make a simple Flash application with a Klingon theme. You're walked through all the steps using Flash Builder in Adobe Flash CS5 to create the Hello World application for Klingon Facebook users.
How To: Share library files between projects in Adobe Flash CS5
Take an animation created in one project and import it into a different project! There are several ways to accomplish this - you can make a new layer or just use the copy command. However, an easier method is to set up your libraries in Adobe Flash CS5 to be shared.
How To: Alter the curve of a motion path in Adobe Flash CS5
Here's a quick tutorial on how to alter your Flash animations. You can use the pen tool in Adobe Flash CS5, and its companion tools, to change the curve of motion in your animation and edit the Bezier curves which define the path.
How To: Create artwork in Adobe Flash quickly using the deco tool
This tutorial shows you how to use the deco tool available to users of Adobe Flash CS5. The deco tool can create both static and animated images, and this tutorial demonstrates how you can use the deco tool to quickly create a skyline picture in Adobe Flash.
How To: Build a Facebook application using Flash Builder
Have a great idea for a Flash-based Facebook game that will be the next Farmville? This tutorial shows you how to use Flash Builder to create your own Facebook-compatible game or application that will run in Adobe Flash Player.
How To: Add the UI loader component to your website using Adobe Flash
Create your own loader component to incorporate into your Flash-based website or other Flash application. This component will increase the ability for users to interact dynamically with your website and create more user-friendly content. This tutorial shows you how you can work with the UI loader component using Adobe Flash
How To: Add a poll to your website and allow users to vote using Adobe Flash
Let visitors to your website vote on a poll! Then, display the results to viewers, and also set it up so certain IPs can only vote once. You can easily code this poll using Flash, and this tutorial shows you how to create your own poll.
How To: Add a guestbook feature to your website using Flash
Allow visitors to your website to leave comments and feedback on your website with Flash and Action Script 3. This tutorial walks you through the process, also using PHP and MySQL, to create your guestbook and then add it to your website.
How To: Create a Flash-based scrolling .MP3 player for your website
Add music content to your website! If you want to add a scrollable, clickable playist to your Flash-based website (like to show off your band's music), this tutorial shows you a step by step process to building this interactive .mp3 player using Adobe Flash CS3 and Action Script
How To: Easily adjust or edit content on your website without Flash
If you don't have Adobe Flash, you can still edit Flash content on your websites. All you need is to know how to use external configuration, which you can do just from Notepad and a few .txt files. This tutorial demostrates how you can edit Flash content without having Flash Builder.
How To: Create a draggable content window with the Mac OS look
Create a content-containing (such as clickable graphics, buttons or hyperlinks) window which can be dragged across the screen by your user without losing any of the content! This tutorial shows you how to make this window look exactly like a Mac OS content window as well, using Adobe Flash CS3.
How To: Create a liquid Flash website which changes based on screen size
Code your Flash-based website so that your content can remain the same, no matter if visitors are viewing your site on a computer screen, smartphone display or even a high-definition TV. This tutorial shows how you can code your fluid website to achieve the true fit effect.
How To: Create a CSS Style Sheet and import it into Flash using Action Script 3
A style sheet can ensure a uniform appearance for your website, as it gives you the ability to standardize font appearance, layout and spellings of unusual words on your website. This tutorial shows you how to create a style sheet and then import it into the Adobe Flash CS5 program using ActionScript 3.
How To: Write a game to play blackjack using Adobe Flash
Learn how to create your own card game using Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3! This tutorial shows you how to code a Flash version of blackjack, but you'll be able to expand on the principles taught in this tutorial to make your own card game in any style.
How To: Build your own website using WYSIWYG Flash editors
What You See Is What You Get, or WYSIWYG, is a useful type of web builder which allows new users or beginning coders create their own websites by using a type of plug and play interface. This tutorial shows you how to build an entire website using a WYSIWYG Flash-based editor.
How To: Use sprites or animated .GIFs to recreate an old video game
Code a retro style video game using old school sprites or other animated .gifs. This tutorial shows you how you can take a small character and animate him to walk across the screen. Make your own homage to Mario or a nostalgia-fueled video game or animation!
How To: Create a looped Halloween-themed Flash animation with bats
This animation can be very useful to create banners, and shows you how to use ActionScript 3 and the timeline function of Adobe Flash CS3 to set the background of mountains and a moon. Then create a few flying bats and animate them to fly across the screen in a loop!
How To: Create a circular dynamic preloader for your Flash based website
If you don't want to use a preloader bar, you can use the circular animation instead. This tutorial shows you how to code a circular preloader and have the animation go either clockwise or counterclockwise using a mid-level masking technique in Action Script 3.0.
How To: Add sound to the button menu on your Flash-based website using ActionScript
Add an extra level of functionality and user interactivity by adding sound to your menu buttons on your Flash-based website! This tutorial shows you how to create these sound files, and then incorporate them into your dynamic Flash-based menu by using the ActionScript code.
How To: Code a multiplane easing effect in ActionScript 3 for your website
A multiplane animation allows for objects in the stage to move at various speeds, and also allows for a certain level of user interactivity, as the speed or orientation of the stage can change depending on where the mouse cursor is.
How To: Set up an image fade for your online gallery using Adobe Flash CS3
An image fade or other transition can give a slide show or other graphic display on your website an extra level of attractiveness and professionalism. This effect is easy to code using ActionScript, and this tutorial shows you how to set up a fade transition for your Flash-based website.
How To: Structure a Flash website using an intro and content loading bar
This tutorial shows you how to code an intro sequence for the first page of your Flash-based website. You're also shown how to code a dynamic loader bar, so visitors can easily tell how long the content will take to load in their browser.
How To: Program an external .XML file into either Flash CS3 or Flash CS4
This tutorial starts by demonstrating how to take an .xml file and incorporate it into your Flash file. This will allow you to further manipulate the data in the .xml file, and allow greater functionality within your own Flash-based website.
How To: Load and unload multiple .SWF files to your website using ActionScript 3.0
Being able to load and unload .swf files to content areas in your website is useful, as it gives you the opportunity to show visitors a variety of different animations. This tutorial shows you how to use the Flash code to set up a system for loading and unloading multiple .swf files to the same area of your website.
How To: Create a hit counter for your website using PHP and ActionScript
Monitor visitors to your website by using a hit counter. This tutorial shows you how to use PHP and Flash to code a hit counter for your site. You can even use the counter to measure visitors to your site as a whole, or determine the most popular pages on your site.
How To: Code keyboard input into your Flash games using Action Script 3.0
Aimed at Flash developers who like making games or other applications, this tutorial shows you how to use keyboard mapping so users can control the game using specific keys. This is also useful for photo galleries or slide shows, so users can navigate using their keyboard.
How To: Create a toggle button using Action Script 3 for your website
A toggle button can let visitors to your website hide or reveal content (such as a product description or explanation attached to an image). This tutorial shows you how to make your own content toggle buttons for your Flash-based website.
How To: Add a glint to your Flash animation using an advanced masking technique
This tutorial is aimed at those who are already somewhat adept at using Flash and ActionScript 3. This demonstrates an advanced masking technique called a 'glint' - having a beam of light pass over the object in your dynamic flash image.
How To: Make 3-D web animations using the Switft3D plugin application for Flash
The Swift3D plugin for Adobe Flash will allow a developer to create 3-D models, and then add a little animation - like making the logo spin on your website. This tutorial shows you how to get it and the best way to use it to personalize your website.
How To: Code ActionScript 3 to allow custom navigation in between frame labels
Frame labels are titles associated with certain segments of content (such as playing a tutorial in sequence and assigning each clip a separate frame label). This tutorial shows you how to set up a custom navigation system for your frame labels, so users can switch back and forth between segments.
How To: Create a hoverclip that follows the mouse cursor on your website using Flash
Add a small bit of content which appears whenever visitors to your website mouse over a specific area of your website - such as having your company's slogan appear in a small text box when users hover their mouse over the log.
How To: Code Flash objects to be able to spin, rotate and accelerate
This tutorial shows you first how to create an object using Adobe Flash CS3, and then you're shown how you can use ActionScript code to make them spin and rotate. You can even cause the spinning to speed up using the right code!
How To: Set up links on your website to external sites or files in Adobe Flash CS3
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use ActionScript and Adobe Flash CS3 to set up links on your website to allow users to download various files, such as making .pdfs, .docs or .mp3s available for download. You're also shown how to link to an external website, or set up an email-to link.
How To: Code a PayPal "Buy It Now" button in Flash ActionScript 3 for your website
Add an extra level of security to your website by creating your own dynamic 'Buy It Now' button for PayPal-using visitors to your website. Coding this button is very easy, and you can even animate it to draw more attention to your webstore.
How To: Rewind or reverse animations created using Flash CS3
This tutorial shows a beginner how to reverse their timeline animations, both by using Action Script code or by using the timeline functions. Set up your Adobe Flash CS3 animation timeline going in one direction, and then completely reverse it!