Creating a Basic Audio Box in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create an extremely simple music box in Flash with very little scripting. You can use this music box in your blog, in a forum, a portfolio, personal webpage, etc.

Problems with Rotating Animations In Flash
In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.

Easiest Method For Creating a Password Protected Section in Flash
This tutorial will teach you a very simple method for creating a password protected section in your flash movie so that you can, for example, create a restricted area in a flash website.

Creating a Grid Dynamically with Actionscript
There are plenty of reasons why you would like to create a grid in Flash, if you are creating a sudoku a crossword activity or a chess game you will surely need to create a grid with cells that need to be interactive and able to display some kind of data (graphics or text).

Common mistakes in Flash development
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes". Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

We all make mistakes and this is good because it is how we learn. I thought it would be a good idea to try to set up a little list of common mistakes that I regularly see in Flash development.

Flash versus HTML : a real debate ?
5-6 years ago there was the phenomena of "Flashmania" all over the web. Big corporate names, especially in the car industry, were all going for full Flash websites. But where have they all gone ? It looks like most of these companies are now back to the old HTML way of doing things. What happened ? Well it looks like things have just been put into place.

Super Preloader
Super Preloader that shows download rate and time remaining.

Custom Cursor
Replace the user's cursor with a custom one that you design.

Random MC Movement
Make moveclips move around randomly using simple math.

Optimizing your Flash SWFs
Nowadays there is a lot less reasons to spend hours optimizing our Flash content for speed because computers are faster and cheaper to buy than 10 years ago. This doesn't mean that we should stuff our flash files with assets without worrying about optimization.

There is a couple of good tricks that will tend to improve the speed and the general performance of Flash files on older and not so old systems.

Loading JPG images with preloader
Learn to create buttons that load external JPEG images when clicked. You will also make a preloader for images, for users of Internet Explorer.

21 ways to make your Flash based site suck
I'm not a fan of Flash based sites and the main reason for that is barely no-one does them properly. So heres a list of 21 ways to make your Flash based site suck, so that the next time you build a Flash based site you can really hit that nail on the head.

How to Make Flash (.swf) Transparent?
There are two ways to make flash file transparent, one is to export as a transparent file when you are publishing from Macromedia Flash and another to insert a line of code in the HTML. We will cover both ways in this tutorial.

Password Protection / Loading External Text
In this tutorial you will learn how to password protect your Flash Movie or Application by loading in a password that is located in an external text file. This will be presented in a step-by-step format.

Loading Pictures Dynamically- Video Tutorial
The loader component in Flash is a very handy tool for loading external images into your Flash file. In this video, you'll learn the fundamentals behind creating a photo gallery, using the loader component to load pictures one at a time.