Good Flash tutorial?
Anyone know a good way to learn Flash? I'm looking for a short Flash tutorial on how to use Flash lol to make web pages. Frankly, I think a lot of the problem is the Macromedia interface. Adobe, on the other hand, has a GREAT interface. It's why I use GoLive over Dreamweaver. Anyways, I'm not here to complain =P
Most tutorials I've found are either too specific (here is how to make lightning! But I don't want lightning on my website...) or they are too LONG and spend 20 minutes on drawing a rectangle.
Let me be more specific: you know all the basic stuff you can do with DHTML and CSS? Layers, classes, frames, and everything that allows you to nicely position stuff on a web page? I want to learn to do that, except with Flash. Why? I just want a little bit more animation on my site. Nothing fancy, I'll worry about fancy stuff later.
But for the life of me, I can't figure ANYTHING out in Flash. I learned Photoshop just by playing around with it, but Flash...well...I can't find anything to play around with. Nothing works! It seems like making a simple web page couldn't be that hard, but Flash is so alien. Nothing makes sense. And I'm pretty good with computers...
Anyways, how did you learn Flash? Any good websites I should look at? Any good tutorials? Thanks!
Philip
Most tutorials I've found are either too specific (here is how to make lightning! But I don't want lightning on my website...) or they are too LONG and spend 20 minutes on drawing a rectangle.
Let me be more specific: you know all the basic stuff you can do with DHTML and CSS? Layers, classes, frames, and everything that allows you to nicely position stuff on a web page? I want to learn to do that, except with Flash. Why? I just want a little bit more animation on my site. Nothing fancy, I'll worry about fancy stuff later.
But for the life of me, I can't figure ANYTHING out in Flash. I learned Photoshop just by playing around with it, but Flash...well...I can't find anything to play around with. Nothing works! It seems like making a simple web page couldn't be that hard, but Flash is so alien. Nothing makes sense. And I'm pretty good with computers...
Anyways, how did you learn Flash? Any good websites I should look at? Any good tutorials? Thanks!
Philip
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as far as sites go, there are plenty of in depth tutorials and discussions on both www.kirupa.com and www.were-here.com also, don't over look macromedia's site. there is a wealth of info and tutes there if you look hard enough.