Flash, ActionScript & Silverlight
Developing a Flash Music Player, Part 1
Music or podcast players are popping up on some important ecommerce sites. These audio players might offer samples of music fro... 0 Comments | Read More »
Custom Flash Preloader, Part 2
In Flash, a preloader can give a user good information about the progress of a download. Last week, in Part 1 of this series, ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Building a Custom Flash Preloader, Part 1
For the next couple of weeks I'll be explaining how to build a custom preloader that will display the progress of an image as i... 0 Comments | Read More »
Create a Custom Toggle Button with Adobe Flash
A typical toggle button has two states: on and off. It's useful when you want a user to choose one of two options. The most c... 0 Comments | Read More »
Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 4
If you have been following this series of tutorials, "Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch," your slider should be... 0 Comments | Read More »
Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 3
This tutorial is third part in an ongoing series created to demonstrate how to develop a powerful, Flash content slider. If yo... 0 Comments | Read More »
Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 2
Content sliders help many developers solve overcrowding on a home page. This is the second article in a four-part series abou... 0 Comments | Read More »
Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 1
Content sliders are an extremely popular feature in modern website design, particularly for online retailers. These sliders are... 1 Comment | Read More »
Custom Cursor Effects in Flash
I'd never suggest changing the cursor just because you can, but with Flash you can. Changing the user's cursor will, in a man... 0 Comments | Read More »
Using JavaScript and ActionScript Together
I recently worked on a site where I needed to display HTML forms in Flash. The solution I came up with was Shadowbox, a web-ba... 0 Comments | Read More »
Sources for Learning Flash and ActionScript
Adobe's most recent promotional campaigns have focused on the "freedom of choice" that its solutions provide for developers, a... 1 Comment | Read More »
Creating A Dock Menu Effect: Part 2
Apple's Mac OSX dock is one of the most attractive computer user interfaces of the past several years. In "Part 1" of this tw... 0 Comments | Read More »
Creating A Dock Menu Effect: Part 1
I've seen a lot of Mac OSX style docks out there. Some of them are very well made, and some not. Perhaps the popularity of the ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Embedding SWF with jQuery Flash
The Flash plug-in for jQuery is a very lightweight option for embedding Flash movies. I typically use swfObject, but I decided ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Embedding Assets in Flash
A common way to make assets, such as graphic, audio and video files, available at run time is to import the assets into your Fl... 0 Comments | Read More »
Embedding Fonts in Flash
Embedding fonts in Flash can be tricky and can really bloat the size of your SWF file if you're not careful. Large SWF files ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Google Maps API for Flash
Google Maps is one of the best things to hit the web since video tutorials. If you're developing for a multi-channel merchant t... 1 Comment | Read More »
Augmented Reality Using FLARManager and Papervision, Part 2
In part two of our augmented reality (AR) video tutorial, I'll create a custom AR scene. Using the custom pattern I created in... 0 Comments | Read More »
New Flash Content Switcher Spices Up Site Design
CU3ER is a Flash-based, three dimensional content switcher that provides smooth, spin, flip, slice, and shade-image transitions... 0 Comments | Read More »
Augmented Reality Using FLARManager and Papervision
Augmented reality mixes real-world and computer-generated imagery. In ecommerce solutions, it is often used to simulate the e... 0 Comments | Read More »
