25 Flash 8 Tutorials

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.

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