How to Make a Website in Flash Cs4

Use ActionScript 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 to add in a slider component to the website or project you're building in Flash. A slider component can allow users to do things like change the size of animations on your website.

Checkboxes let users to your site select or deselect items in a list (such as adding products to a shopping cart or selecting multiple answers to a quiz or poll). This tutorial shows you how to build and incorporate checkboxes to your website or other Flash project.

If you don't have Adobe Flash, you can still edit Flash content on your websites. All you need is to know how to use external configuration, which you can do just from Notepad and a few .txt files. This tutorial demostrates how you can edit Flash content without having Flash B ...more

Add a small bit of content which appears whenever visitors to your website mouse over a specific area of your website - such as having your company's slogan appear in a small text box when users hover their mouse over the log.

In this clip, you'll learn everything you'll need to know to add buttons and states to your Flash Builder projects. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Eclipse-based integrated development environment (formerly known as Flex Builder) or are a seasoned developer merely lookin ...more

If you don't want to use a preloader bar, you can use the circular animation instead. This tutorial shows you how to code a circular preloader and have the animation go either clockwise or counterclockwise using a mid-level masking technique in Action Script 3.0.

What You See Is What You Get, or WYSIWYG, is a useful type of web builder which allows new users or beginning coders create their own websites by using a type of plug and play interface. This tutorial shows you how to build an entire website using a WYSIWYG Flash-based editor. ...more

This Adobe CS4 tutorial shows you how to export to Flash from Encore CS4. Learn how to export to Flash for progressive downloads or streaming video. You will also learn how to create a DVD-like web page with interactive links and a custom background in this Encore CS4 tutorial ...more

This tutorial shows you how to make a spinning logo on a website using Flash 8. Make a spinning website logo in Flash. Click through to watch this video on template-help.com

Create your own loader component to incorporate into your Flash-based website or other Flash application. This component will increase the ability for users to interact dynamically with your website and create more user-friendly content. This tutorial shows you how you can wor ...more

Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 4, or CS4, software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animato ...more

A numeric stepper component is one which you can add to your website to allow users to select numbers or from a list of avaiable items - useful, for instance, if you wanted a webstore which allowed for a quantity function. This Adobe Flash CS3 tutorial shows you how to create ...more

Save space on your page by adding a scroll bar! This tutorial teaches you two separate techniques: first, how to create custom movie clips or similar content for your webpage; and then how to incorporate a scrolling list into that particular element of your website.

This tutorial shows you how you can turn a single animation (like a bouncing ball) into a symbol. Once it is a symbol, you'll be able to reuse the animation in other projects and add it to other movies or animations you make using Adobe Flash CS4. Part 1 of 2 - How to Turn an ...more

Adobe instructor A.J. Wood shows viewers how to export a Flash presentation from InDesign CS4. This page presentation will include hyperlinks and buttons, created with the buttons panel in InDesign, whose action will be to move through the pages of the presentation once it has ...more

Learn how to export a Flash .SWF file and put onto your website using Adobe Dreamweaver.

Needing to load website content with AS2 into Flash? You've come to the right place. In the following video, learn how to load text from a text file sitting on a web server and display it in Flash using dynamic text and Actionscript 2.0. Also taught? How to load a jpg, gif, pn ...more

Using Action Script, you can turn an image into a link to a website within your animation or movie clip. This tutorial demonstrates how you make invisible buttons and attach them to your chosen images in order to turn them into links.

Add an extra level of security to your website by creating your own dynamic 'Buy It Now' button for PayPal-using visitors to your website. Coding this button is very easy, and you can even animate it to draw more attention to your webstore.

Kush talks about ways to add a Flash pre-loader to make waiting for a website to load less annoying while exploring the Miramare Castle in Trieste, Italy. Ask the Adobe Ones is the show on Adobe TV where YOU get to be the star! Ask anything related to all things Adobe on an o ...more

Powerpoint is a handy go-to program for creating all sorts of presentations - if you're a high school student. Make your future picture galleries look worthy of great concert halls (or at least worthy of your friends' compliments) by watching this tutorial. Using Adobe Bridge ...more

Add music content to your website! If you want to add a scrollable, clickable playist to your Flash-based website (like to show off your band's music), this tutorial shows you a step by step process to building this interactive .mp3 player using Adobe Flash CS3 and Action Scri ...more

Let visitors to your website vote on a poll! Then, display the results to viewers, and also set it up so certain IPs can only vote once. You can easily code this poll using Flash, and this tutorial shows you how to create your own poll.

This tutorial demonstrates how you can use ActionScript and Adobe Flash CS3 to set up links on your website to allow users to download various files, such as making .pdfs, .docs or .mp3s available for download. You're also shown how to link to an external website, or set up an ...more

Learning how to use Flash can be beneficial for you if you are looking to add something to your website. In this video tutorial you get to see how to make toggle buttons using the Flash CS4 program. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create toggle buttons in Flash CS4. ...more

Flash and Actionscript can be used together to create damn near any sort of animation or website feature that you could want. This video will teach you how to do just one thing: generate a random frame using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. This is handy if you want to create a b ...more

Having large images on a website is a great way to slow down your site and make it much less appealing to your users. This video teaches you how to use Flash CS4 to load images dynamically, which dramatically decreases the size of your images and will make your site run much m ...more

This Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial shows you how to enhance websites by adding multimedia elements like videos. Learn how to use Dreamweaver CS4's integration with Flash CS4 to create FLV files. And there's no scripting or Flash development required! Add multimedia to a web page in ...more

A Data Grid lets you organize information on your website or other Flash project. Create lists or schedules, like concert dates, by using the Data Grid component included in Adobe Flash CS4, and then modify it using Action Script 3.

An Adobe Flash preloader screen is something anyone who has browsed a website is familiar with: It's that "Loading" bar that you encounter before a Flash-heavy site pops up. Sometimes all you see is a simple "Loading" bar, and other times it's much more interactive and interes ...more

Adobe Fireworks is a powerful vector graphics editing tool for creating Flash websites. It has many powerful functions, just one of which you will learn how to use here. This video explains how to make slideshows (or image galleries for the web-savvy) that will display on your ...more

Want to do some web designing in Flash? This tutorial will walk you through the basics of creating a button in Flash CS4 (though this tutorial will work in earlier versions of Flash as well). They will first walk you through the basics of converting text to a button symbol and ...more

This video breaks down a composite that makes up a website and shows you how to take the layers and images and layout you created in Photoshop, and transfer them to Flash. Within Flash, you can go through each layer and determine how you want it to be saved. Tanya Staples does ...more

Have multiple animations going at the same time in your Flash project! This tutorial shows you how to use the scene editor, timeline and other functions in Adobe Flash CS4 and Swift 3D to make multiple animations run concurrently in a single project.

Most of you viewers out there who are familiar with Flash, After Effects, or other creative software know what a tween is. But can you write the code for them? This video will teach you how to code different classes of tweens using Actionscript 3 in Flash CS4. Get the FLA cod ...more

If you're using Adobe Flash and are looking how to import or export a .flv file, this great how-to will walk you through all the necessary steps. This tutorial uses Flash CS3, but the information is the same for Flash CS4 an CS5 as well. As you know, Flash is a very versatile ...more

Twitter has become one of the most popular and powerful populists movements / websites on the web. You may want to integrate it into you Flash website or animations as a result. This two-part video will teach you how to use Twitter API to bring Twitter and all of its tweets in ...more

Using After Effects CS4 and Encore CS4 together to create motion menus can produce a more engaging experience when outputting to disc or flash from Encore CS4. This Adobe CS4 tutorial shows you how to create a seamlessly looping motion menu in After Effects CS4 for use in Enco ...more

Creating a modern video game is a mammoth undertaking, especially if you are working alone. Hopefully, this video will make it a little bit easier. It will teach you how to create a custom class for your game's hero character using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. Doing so will m ...more

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to add a simple pause/resume functionality to a scrolling image bar using Actionscript 2. If you have a scrolling image bar on your website, this Flash Actionscript 2 tutorial will show you how to let users ...more

Glossy buttons are the preferred type of button to use on websites for links. If you're here, chances are you're wondering how to make them yourself. You've come to the right place. This video will teach you how to quickly and easily create glossy buttons for your website usin ...more

Twitter is a very powerful way to create word-of-mouth buzz for your website if you can utilize it properly. One way to do that is creating a Tweet This link on your website, which allows your users to tweet about how awesome your website is without going back to Twitter. This ...more

Club Penguin is a flash-based website with an a virtual world of online games for kids to play. Learn how to hack Club Penguin with tricks and cheats. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to find hidden items in the Club Penguin catalog (09/29/09). Club Penguin is a multipl ...more

Using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 to make your website can be an intimating challenge, but will give you really good looking sites if you learn to do it well. This tutorial features instructions on how to map images in the program, as well as use the Ap Div function, which used to b ...more

Know where the Dojo in the Courtyard is on Club Penguin? Then did you know you can walk on top of it? It's a cool little glitch that you can without getting banned from Club Penguin or anything like that. It's just a simple Club Penguin glitch. Watch this video tutorial to le ...more

Club Penguin is a flash-based website with an a virtual world of online games for kids to play. Learn how to hack Club Penguin with tricks and cheats. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to hack Club Penguin for loads of money with WPE Pro (03/22/09). 1. Open Up you intern ...more

Regardless of whether you start out using one of Dreamweaver CS4's starter pages or build your own design from scratch, you will eventually need to get your text and your images into Dreamweaver. This Adobe CS4 tutorial shows you how to add text and images using multiple diffe ...more

The mouse is the primary way in which web users interact with most websites, and it can do almost anything if your website allows it to. This video will teach you how to use Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3 to create custom mouse and movie clip interactions. This will make viewing ...more

Add a chat program to your website and allow the logged in users to talk to each other! You can write this program using Adobe Flash CS3, PHP and MySQL. This tutorial shows you how to write your own Flash chat program incorporating all three systems. Part 1 of 4 - How to Code ...more

Congratulations, iOS device owners! You can officially view Flash content on the web using the Skyfire web browser. This video will walk you through how the Skyfire browser works and how it converts Flash content to HTML5 content, allowing you to view it on your Apple iPhone, ...more

Interested in loading external images and SWF files in Flash? Learn how with help from this video. Learn how to load images and SWF files that are not actually in your Flash document dynamically using Actionscript 3.0. This can be especially useful if you are creating a websit ...more

Need to insert a scrollable gallery of thumbnails into your website or web project? You've come to the right place. In this tutorial, learn how to build a scrolling thumbnails video and take it to the next level by building a fully functional gallery with a bonus randomizer bu ...more

Want to make animated logo that will pop for your business website or ad? Look no further. In this video, learn how to take a logo and go through some different stages of animation using masks and both shape and motion tweens, as well as a neat trick for creating animated spar ...more

The quiz - a popular and pervasive form of content for websites. They can be just for fun, or to help you collect demographic data on visitors to your website. This tutorial shows you how to use radio buttons to write quizzes, tests and other similar forms in Adobe Flash CS3.

Create links and change elements with AS3 in Flash CS3 Use buttons to change the appearance of a button, navigate to a different place in a time line and link to a website. Use action script 3.0. Publish settings. Need to apply actions. Create an event listener. Attach to a b ...more

Dave Cross talks about the new-and-improved Isolation Mode in Illustrator CS4 which is now easier to use and understand. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illust ...more

In this video, Franklin McMahon uses Premiere Pro CS4 to create a nested sequence and then overlay it over a backdrop. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illustra ...more

Have you ever thought of building your own social networking site? Before you get to making websites like Facebook, you need to start off smaller, and this 29-part video series is where to begin with developing a social networking community website . Before you start with thes ...more

This tutorial covers how to distribute frames evenly across a document using the step and repeat command. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illustrator, InDesign ...more

This tutorial covers how to clean up audio using the built-in audio effects in Premiere Pro CS4. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all Layers Magazine tutorials for Illustrator, InDesign, Photosh ...more