Here are 25 very informative Flash 8
Tutorials, courtesy of brainbell.com. These Flash
tutorial lessons teach and demonstration many key features and areas of
functionality that you need to know and use when creating compelling
and interactive Flash documents for your web pages.
Create a Flash Document
Discover the power of Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and
Macromedia Flash Professional 8. Find out how you
can create a compelling web experience that combines video, text,
graphics, and media control behaviors.
Creating
an Animated Banner in Flash, Part 1
This Flash 8 tutorial shows you some of the fundamental aspects of
the program, and how to get started using them to build a real project.
You don't need to know anything about Flash or animation to complete
this tutorial; in fact, you'll discover how easy it is to start using
Flash 8 to add elements to your web pages.
Creating
an Animated Banner in Flash, Part 2
This is Part 2 of this three-part that teaches creating an animated
banner using Macromedia Flash 8. Now you will create
symbols, animation, and even write some simple ActionScript to make the
banner function in this continuation tutorial.
Creating
an Animated Banner in Flash, Part 3
This is Part 3 of this three-part that teaches creating an animated
banner using Macromedia Flash 8, and the adding it to a web
page using Dreamweaver.
In this Flash tutorial, you learn about file size, banner standards,
how to
set publish settings, how to add the banner to a Dreamweaver web page,
and how to add Flash Player detection.
Create
Accessible Flash Content
This Flash tutorial shows you how to create an accessible document,
designed
for use with screen readers (which read web content aloud for visually
impaired users) and other assistive technologies.
Flash
Layers
Learn how lasyers are used in Flash. Layers are like
having transparent acetate sheets one on top of the other. If
the areas of a layer do not have content, then you can
see through it to see the layers below.
Create
a Flash Application
Learn how to create a Flash application that lets users view the
cost of selecting multiple products. A Calculate button then adds the
total cost.
Flash
Layout Tools
This Flash tutorial demonstrates how to use the layout tools in Flash
to create a user interface.
Create
Flash Symbols and Instances
This Flash tutorial teaches you an efficient method of using symbols,
which are reusable objects. An instance is an occurrence of a
symbol on the Stage, so when you use instances of a symbol, it does not
increase the
file size and is part of a strategy for keeping a Flash file
size small.
Add
Button Animation and Navigation in Flash
This Flash tutorial explains how to create and change buttons,
along with adding animation to a button.
Create
a Flash Presentation with Screens
Discover how Flash Professional 8 provides a new technique for creating
presentations with
slide screens. This involves adding nested slides that inherit
media from other slides, and using
the built-in controls to navigate through the slides at runtime.
Draw
in Flash
When you draw in Flash, you create vector art, which is a mathematical
representation of lines, curves, color, and position. This Flash
tutorial describes how to create vector art of a bolt and logo.
Create
a Flash Timeline Animation
In this Flash tutorial, you will be taught the two types of
tweening that you can create in Flash: a motion tween and a shape
tween.
Making
Animations in Flash
This Flash tutorial shows you how to create an animation by
tweening different properties of a graphic using the various tweening
controls in the Flash authoring environment.
Applying
Gradients in Flash
This Flash tutorial takes you through the process of using the
gradient tools in Macromedia Flash.
Applying
Graphic Filters and Blends in Flash
This Flash tutorial teaches you how to create compelling
graphic effects using some of the authoring features in Macromedia
Flash Professional 8.
Add
Text to a Flash Document
This Flash tutorial shows you how to add text and text fields to a
Flash
document. It demonstrates the three types of text
you can add static text for titles, labels,
or other text content you want to appear in a Flash document.
Use
Flash Script Assist Mode
This Flash tutorial teaches the steps of using Script Assist mode
to add interactivity to a Flash application. How to add ActionScript
code to an object (a button) and to frames in the Timeline. This Flash
tutorial also demonstrates some best practices for adding scripts to
your Flash document.
Adding
Interactivity in Your Flash Document
This Flash tutorial will show you some of the ways to implement
interactivity in Flash.
Writinbg
ActionScript
With ActionScript you can write reusable code to control document
playback in response to
events; add interactivity to a
document in response to user actions; use
built-in objects, create custom classes and objects; and
create more compact and efficient applications.
Create
a Form with Conditional Logic and Send Data in Flash
You can create a form with conditional logic in Flash that allows it
to respond to user interaction and send the form data to an
external data source. This Flash tutorial shows you how to
create a simple
form.
Objects
and Classes
Learn how to create and modify Flash classes.
Data
Integration
This Flash tutorial shows you several methods to use data binding
and data components in Flash Professional 8.
Using
the Macromedia Tips Web Service
In this tutorial, you will find out how to use thge Web Services panel
to connect to a web
service (to return a random tip about Macromedia
software).
Using
XML for a Timesheet
This Flash tutorial teaches you how to create an application for
editing
timesheet data. The timesheet data is stored as XML within a native XML
database.