You learn something new everyday. Today is no different, except for the fact that it comes in 5 parts.
FlashBuilding is a user on YouTube that uploads loads of Flash tutorials, you can subscribe to get video updates by them and other such users on YouTube. Below you will find a 5 part series on how to structure a full site using AS3. The videos run between 5 and 9 minutes each. (more…)
So you aren’t sold yet on making the switch from as2 to as3? This simple tutorial might do the trick. It shows the incredibly intuitive actionscript 3 method of loading an xml with flash and reading the data. It covers creating the URLLoader, reading the xml, including attributes and html text, without ever having to use firstChild or childNodes. (more…)
First, we’d like to thank everyone who participated in this competition. It was a tough one that required a lot of work and we got some fantastic submissions. We’d also like to thank TechSmith for submitting three Camtasia licenses worth $900. It was a difficult one to judge as they were all so close but we’ve finally got the winners. We’re not going to show you all the screencasts at once as there’s just too much info to take in. Instead we’re going to show one a week so stay tuned.
Grand Prize Winner:
Colby963
Website: flexlaboratories.com (coming soon)
Winnings: Camtasia Studio License (worth $299 and courtesy of TechSmith), $300 cash, $100 to spend in the Envato marketplace, and the “has won a competition” badge. (more…)
The process of uploading a file for the first time may seem a bit daunting. If so, don’t worry, this screencast is for you. FlashJunkie takes you step by step though the upload process including how to upload a fullscreen preview.
For more information regarding uploading to FlashDen, check out the flash upload instructions. (more…)
Flash can be used to make a lot of stuff. From video players, audio players, full blown websites to games, applications and widgets among many more usages. If you’ve been around a while you might know that quite a bit of the webs content is made up of landing pages.
Using a mixture of Flash, HTML and CSS you can come up with some very creative money making content yourself.
What’s A Landing Page?
Landing pages have been around since the birth of the Internet. People have used them for collecting your name and email address to selling you something. The affiliate marketing industry are probably the most prolific users of landing pages.
Designing A Landing Page with Flash
The first thing you need to determine before you set about designing a landing page is to figure out what it is exactly you want your visitor to do? In this example, I want my visitor to visit Themeforest via my referral link. So let’s get started. (more…)
Apart from XML websites, applications, wizz bang effects etc…Flash is pretty good as a vector tool. We’ve already discussed a little bit about vectors in Flash and even interviewed an author who does illustration in Flash. Today, we’ll take it a step further and create a logo in Flash using nothing else but the Line Tool {and the color tool of course}.
I hope you have heard of Road Runner and Will E. Coyote, they were one of my favorite cartoon characters as a kid. I dream of starting my own “ACME” corporation one day, with similar mail order gizmos. Anyway, back to the task at hand. We’re going to make a logo based on the actual Road Runner bird.
I found a great image over at iStockPhoto here. The stance is pretty good to show movement and speed. Right, let’s fire up Flash. (more…)
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