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Flash Tutorials: Members - InterAction
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The interactive tutorials cover both the Practical and Theory behind how to make interesting interactive web content. Interaction is when a change that has been determined by the user. In the simplest form interaction could be a menu on a web page. At the other extreme you have complex games that a user 'interacts' with. Interaction is one area where Flash excels. It outstrips other technologies in it's ability to deliver interactive, fast loading and visually interesting content.

Note: There are many other Tutorials which have a variety of Interactive content. For details look up Interactivity in the: Tutorial Index

	301 Nested Interactive Buttons Flash MX 2004 - Rating: 9.66 - 3200 words In Flash interactivity is achieved through the use of ActionScript and the structure of how the Flash Movie is built. This tutorial concentrates on how to build a Flash movie with interactivity in mind. The mechanism that I use to show you how interactivity is built into a Flash Movie is a very simple example of an interactive button. Although it is interesting and useful to know how to build interactive buttons, the main point of the tutorial is to understand how interactivity is build into a Flash Movie.

	302 Drag and Drop Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 7.66 - 3750 words Learn how to create Flash Movies with Drag and Drop features. Drag and Drop is when you are able to move something with the mouse on screen. There are many situations that you might want the user to be able to pick up an object move it with the mouse. When you are making games, puzzles, jigsaws, knobs and sliders.

	303 Sub Menus Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 8.6 - 4300 words Sub Menus are a standard part of any designers arsenal. They can be a bit tricky, but once you get the idea you will never look back. The key to sub-menus is to nest sets of buttons inside Movie Clips so that one button can switch on (or off) the sets of Sub Menu buttons. As with so many things in Flash - nesting is at the heart of Sub Menus.

	304 Flash/PHP Forms Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 9.17 - 2400 words Feedback forms are an essential part of any site. They are quite straight forward in Flash except that Flash needs a little support from a scripting language. In this case I use PHP as it is the most widely used system on the web (for good reason).

Flash Tutorials: Members - Animation
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The animation tutorials cover both the Practical and Theory behind Flash animation. There are many other animation Tutorials in the other sections and I suggest that if you have not done any animation in Flash you check out the beginners section it the free section. For a complete listing of Animation tutorials on this site look at the tutorial Index page.

	401 Symbols: Movie Clip or Graphic? Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 9.8 - 3500 words Symbols are a fundamental part of Flash. Comprehending the behaviour of Symbols is crucial to understanding how different parts of a Flash movies interact with one another. This particularly important when creating either interactivity or animation. The aim of the tutorial is to learn when to use Movie Clips as opposed to Graphic Symbols and why.

	402 Animated Buttons Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - - 2200 words Learn how to create animated buttons in Flash. It is surprisingly easy!! Animated buttons have become a intrinsic part of web pages and not only help the user know that they are on an active link but 'zap up' the design of a page.

	403 Animated Photo Effects Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 7.0 - 2000 words Learn how to create an animated ripple effect of movement underwater and lots of variations on the theme. It is surprisingly easy to create these effect over the top of a Jpeg photo. What's more it is very flexible and easy to gain a variety of different types of effects using the same technique: See the many examples

	404 Continuous Moving Background Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 6.06 - 1800 words This example uses a simple technique of nested tweens to create the effect. It is simple to create and is very versatile.

	405 Steam, Smoke or Dry Ice Flash Pro 8 - Rating: 9.66 - 1800 words An extremely simple and effective way to create realistic steamy effects. Flash Professional 8 only !

	406 Silhouette Animation Flash 8/MX04/MX - Rating: 10.0 - 4300 words With limited drawing skills you will be able to animate people and animals. A fun technique to add a spark of life to your work.

Flash Tutorials: Members - ActionScript
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These tutorials are designed to cover the nuts and bolts of ActionScript. Ultimately if you want to get to grips with Flash you need to know the nitty gritty of ActionScript. This section is available to webwasp members only. To become a member: click here

	501 Syntax Flash MX - Rating: 8.09 - 4100 words Learn the fundamental components of ActionScript syntax. This is the basic grammar of the language. This tutorial is designed to show you some of the pitfalls that occur, how to avoid them and if need be debug your ActionScript.

	502 Operators: Standard Flash MX - Rating: 7.75 - 2400 words If you are going to get to grips with ActionScript a grasp of how Flash does its maths is essential. Often the maths is not complicated but it does have to be written in the right order and you will need to know how to read it.

	503 Operators: Bitwise Flash MX - Rating: 7.0 - 2900 words Although seldom used Bitwise operators do their calculations by directly accessing the binary system that controls every computer. This makes your code lean and fast. For some types of actions Bitwise calculations are the only solution.

	504 Variables and Data Types Flash MX - Rating: 9.0 - 2200 words Variables are the building blocks of ActionScript. This tutorial gives a clear explanation of what variables and data types are and how to use them in Flash. Includes Flash examples.

	505 Functions Intro Flash MX - Rating: 9.0 - 1800 words An explanation of what functions are and why they are important in Actionscript, a description of their syntax and a tutorial on how to use functions in a Flash movie.

	506 Functions Overloading Flash MX - Rating: 7.0 - 1200 words An explanation of what overloading is and how it can be used in flash to make a single function do multiple tasks.

	507 Functions Passing Info Flash MX - Rating: 10.0 - 1500 words Learn what happens to information that is passed to a function and what effect the function has on the thing that sent the information. Understand the difference between value and reference. For effective use of functions it is important to understand this relationship.

	508 Cascading Style Sheets Flash MX 2004 - Rating: 8.5 - 2700 words CSS have made designing web sites much easier in standard HTML pages and now we can use all those advantages in Flash. You can have one style sheet that controls the formatting of the text throughout an entire web site. This can include the all web pages and Flash movies simultaneously!

	509 Copyright Protection Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX / 5 - Rating: 8.66 - 1200 words An easy way to protect your Flash movies from theft.

Flash Tutorials: Members - Components
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How to use Components in Flash. These tutorials are designed to cover the nuts and bolts of Components. Components are becoming more and more integrated into Flash and even though you do not have to use components, knowing how they work saves a lot of time and effort. This section is available to webwasp members only. To become a member: click here

	601 Button Components Flash MX 2004 - Rating: 7.15 - 1200 words An easy way to create and use buttons in Flash.

	602 Check Box Components: Active Flash MX 2004 - - 650 words A check box is a standard Flash component used on forms or to create user interactivity. An active check box is one that makes an immediate change to the Flash Movie.

	603 Check Box Components: Passive Flash MX 2004 - - 1150 words A standard part of forms or other user interactivity. A passive check box is only activated when you click on a submit button.

	604 Radio Button Components: Active Flash MX 2004 - Rating: 10.0 - 1400 words Radio buttons are an important part of interactivity and gaining feed back from users. An active Radio button makes an immediate changes to the Flash file as soon as it is selected.

	605 Radio Button Components: Passive Flash MX 2004 - - 1400 words How to create Radio buttons that active an action when a submit button is click. Also how to create a Reset button.

	606 Alert Box Components Flash MX 2004 - Rating: 9.33 - 1800 words Alert or dialog boxes are an easy way for you to communicate with the visitors to your site. They are particularly useful in forms.

	607 Sample Themes Free Members Tutorial: Flash 8/MX04- - 900 words Flash enables you to change the look of the Flash Components to look more like the default Windows style with the Sample Themes.

	608 Skinning & Styling Components Free Members Tutorial: Flash 8/MX04- - 1600 words Skinning or Styling enables you to change the appearance of Components so you will be able to quickly transform your Components so they fit the visual theme on any website.

Flash Tutorials: Members - Search Engines
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The aim of this series of tutorials is to learn how to make your site pages get as high a listing as possible on Google and other Search Engines. There is a lot you can do to make your web pages come higher up in a web search. By making very minor changes to a page I have managed to improve many of the pages on this site so that are in the top 10 for specific search terms. Occasionally I have managed to be listed in the number 1 position!!

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	701 Naming your Site - Rating: 7.23 - 1200 words You need a decent name for your site that will perform well on Search Engine when you are competing with millions of other sites.

	702 Letting Search Engines Know you Exist - Rating: 7.0 - 1500 words If you don't shout nobody will hear you! The first problem is not how to get listed on the first page of Search Engine but how to get listed at all. So how do you let all the Search Engines in the world know that your site exists?

	703 Google Ranking - Rating: 6.33 - 1600 words Google places a lot of importance on a sites ranking. This tutorial will tell you what Google Ranking is and how to achieve a high rank.

	704 Page Layout and Content - Rating: 8.0 - 4000 words The layout and content of a web page is crucial in gaining a good result in a Search Engine. I cannot over emphasis this. That content is important maybe obvious as Search Engines 'read' web pages. But you may find it surprising that layout is important. I would go as far as saying that the layout is one of the most critical factors in gaining good Search Engine results!!

	705 Flash & Search Engines - Rating: 9.0 - 4800 words Most search engines ignore Flash files. With some straight forward techniques you can address this problem so that the Search Engines will sit up and take notice of your Flash work. The home page on this site is 100% Flash and this does not pose any problems for Google or other Engines.

	706 Keywords - Rating: 10.0 - 1000 words Keywords are one of the most important enhancements you can use. The difference between using good keywords is remarkable. With good keywords you should find your pages being listed near the top of Search Engines.

	707 Test & Improve Google Results - Rating: 8.0 - 1600 words Learn how to climb to the top of the Google ladder.

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