Macromedia Flash: 17 useful links

This web site provides resources to educate developers on creating ColdFusion and Flash applications. It includes tutorials, forums, articles, an active mailing list, web hosting tips, and more.

Tutorials covering: motion tweening, fading text, exploding text, picture/text morph, shape morphing, text blur, text morph, light up buttons, basic preloader, text masking, ripple movie clip, motion trail, close button, on/off music, motion guides, vector drawing, work environment, send flash in e-mail, transparent overlay, movie clips, and add sounds to movies.

Online training course covering: introduction, environment, drawing tools, colour, using text, using selections, symbols, using external media, animation overview, using timeline, motion tweening, shape tweening, masks in animation, animated symbols, buttons, timelines and ActionScript, linking to HTML, using sound, creating preloaders, and publishing FLASH movies.

Articles related to Flash: Macromedia Flex and Flex Builder, Flashes of Brilliance and Use-Centered Design, Wildform Flix Pro, Electric Rain Swift 3D, Macromedia Flash MX, SVG - The New Flash, Motion Design, Flash Usability, A wavering spirit, Macromedia Flash 5, and more.

Macromedia Flash resources sorted by category: beginning Flash, tutorials, tools, support, and authoring tools.

This web site provides information on Macromedia's Flash, Adobe LiveMotion, Swift3D, Swish and other Vector based products for the web. Topics covered: application listing, articles, book reviews, engineering RIA, Flash shop, news, resource links, software reviews, and tutorials.

Flash basics, Flash drawing, Flash buttons, Flash tweenings, Flash and javascript, and .fla archive.

This web site covers issues relating to Flash, Live Motion and SVG content on the web with a focus on usability. It contains news, reviews, books and more.

Macromedia forum posts are archived daily by groups.google.com. Searching for the word flash, followed by a keyword specific to your search, will usually provide multiple threads to answer many questions based on the keyword topic.

Macromedia Flash manuals, release notes and tutorials.