Make a complete, SUPERB Flash website navigation system with a built-in preloader!
With this easy and detailed tutorial, you will learn how to:

- Design a cool menu
- Make a preloading animation
- Create a preloader built inside the menu
- Load EXTERNAL SWF files for different sections of your Flash website
- Create a main preloader for your navigation system
- Write powerful but simple ActionScript code that handles the site menu system

Mmsave in Flash MX
This function is used internally by the Macromedia Answers Panel as part of the update process. This function is used to save a local copy of a .swf file or a local textfile. This function is exactly the same as the undocumented Flash 5 function, dashboardSave. It can only be used within the Macromedia Authoring Environment, therefore it can only be used in .swf files that are going to be displayed inside of a panel in the authoring environment. With this function exposed, we can now create things such as self updating custom component user interfaces...

Flash Sound for Dynamic Sites
Storing all the sounds needed for a web site inside a single Flash movie is an efficient way to sonify a site. This document will show an alternative method to store sounds in a Flash movie in a way that eases changes to the sound contents of the site and allows for quick replacement of sounds when the site contents change.

Passing Variables
This tutorial will show you how to set paths to media content by passing variables to flash using html, as opposed to "hard coding" paths inside of flash. This allows for slightly more dynamic flash video delivery (especially if used as part of a bigger application), easier and faster updatability, and just less hassle overall.

Design an antique-style analog clock
Learn design techniques while creating a beautiful analog clock, an antiquated one. Plus, there is a little bit of simple ActionScript to put inside to make the clock tick. The tutorial shows you also how to code it for Flash 8 and Flash MX.

Functions in Actionscript
Functions are an essential part of any coding language and thus also in Flash Actionscript. They are very useful too and after you learn to use them you won't ever want to go back to not knowing about em. Functions sound like some StarTrek word that can mean a lot, but it isnt that hard to understand. Functions are like little engines that we can feed some data and the code inside the function will run when we actually trigger that function.

Creating a Sliding Menu in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create an animated sliding menu that appears when the user points his mouse on its tip and then slides back inside when the user moves his mouse away.

Transforming a movie clip into a draggable mask via ActionScript
Create easily a cool masking effect in Flash with a few lines of ActionScript. Also, you will see how easy it is to enable your users drag the mask around inside your SWF movie.

Sleek gel buttons encased in metal
Use simple and cool Flash effects to create beveled gel buttons inside a metal frame for your Flash website!

Buttons in Flash explained
The four frames inside the Button symbol in Flash can confuse not only a beginner but also someone who has had some experience with flash. That's why in this tutorial I'm going to make the Button as simple as possible!

Target Paths
A tutorial showing you how one instance of a symbol communicates with another, specifically when the symbol is placed inside another symbol. This tutorial is designed to give you some practical experience of how this is done.

Using a mask inside a preloader
See how you can apply the masking effect to a preloader.

You will also learn how to make a loading bar with this tutorial. The numbers (percentage of your movie loaded) will change color in relation to the bar and the mask.

Tweens within Tweens
A tutorial for beginners, showing you how to place one animation inside another animation. This is a basic technique in Flash which is of fundamental importance.

How to use an external .swf as a library
Using this simple trick, you can reference the labels of objects in an external .swf that are marked for 'Export for Actionscript' in your main movie WITHOUT the usual limitation of having to only attach the movies INSIDE the loaded .swf.

Creating Cross Browser Scrollers Using DHTML
Create text moving across the screen using JavaScript. Although not flash these scroller scripts are handy for scrolling the text inside a textbox, or status bar.