Work with Layers
In Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8, layers are analogous to transparent sheets of acetate stacked on top of each other. In the areas of a layer that don't contain content, you can see through to content in the layers below. Layers assist you in organizing content in your document. For example, you can keep background art on one layer and navigational buttons on another. Additionally, you can create and edit objects on one layer without affecting objects on another layer.

Flash editing help
Learn to make flash header link links to html pages; how to insert text in a flash movie; how to insert a sound effect in flash; how to insert background music in flash; how to insert a new image in flash? how to create a scroll bar in bar; how to create a mail link in flash & etc.

Scrolling text fading effect
Nice effect of fading scrolling text on any kind of background.

Create a mp3 player with animated equalizer and playback controls!
Make a music player in Flash that can load and play an external mp3 file and play it in a loop. Great for website background music. You'll learn how to make moving graphic equalizers and a playback control button so that your site users can switch the music on and off.

Flash MX. Part I. Getting Started: Making Nice Masking Effect and learning basic Flash procedures.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to to work with layers, frames and keyframes, use radial gradient fill and alpha settings, use copy of the background and line tool to create precise mask, use guide layer in combination with mask layer.

Animated camera focus blur/sharp interactive effect
Make a realistic focus transition effect: the foreground and the background of a picture will come in and out of focus as a user rolls her mouse over it! Cool effect which will enable you to learn how to animate blending filters, create masks that outline objects, add simple actionscript and more!

Using Mix-FX To Get Flash Effects in Flash MX
You don't need to use complex software packages or spend a lot of money and time to create animated text effects, buttons or combined text and background effects. You can do it easily with Mix-FX - an extremely easy to use shareware package - even for people with no computer/Flash skills...

A Simple Flash Preloader
The preloader is essentially used to prevent partial loading of the movie while it plays. A preloader is usually made attractive to the viewer to keep him/her occupied while another movie or some data is loaded in the background. We are going to learn how to create a very simple preloader.

Learning to make a site that can change its looks by a single click of the mouse.
Create a site that will change the colors of its various elements (links, text, background) and more, when a user presses a button. You will learn how to make your site different for your visitors in this easy lesson.

High quality animated bar button with gradient background
Create a professionally-looking button using the awesome capabilities of Flash 8 only - no Photoshop whatsoever! In this tutorial concentrated on pure design (no coding at all!) you will make animated effects that will spring to life when the user interacts with the button.

Inside of Building Background
Create the inside of a building using Flash

'Cut-Out, Holey Text'
A very simple yet effective text effect that allows the background to shine through the text and also makes the text eye cathing and very good for simple logos. Well worth a look at and very quick to complete.

Dynamic Sound Fade
This tutorial shows how to fade a background sound in dynamically on the start and then how to fade it out and in when a button is clicked.

Moving starfield background
Learn how to move a moving starfield tutorial using just 3 dots and some actionscript.

text scroll with faded edges
This tutorial shows how to use Photoshop and GIF and PNG file formats to create fuzzy edged masks for a scrolling text fade out effect in any color background.