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Posted by $loth on Thu Jan 27th at 7:45pm 2005

I'm tring to find some good tutorials for creating websites in flash, I am a flash noobie BTW. Anybody know any good ones for specifid website related topics like buttons and layers etc.

Help appreciated
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Posted by ding on Thu Jan 27th at 7:46pm 2005

http://shiver7.com/
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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jan 27th at 8:50pm 2005

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Posted by Crono on Fri Jan 28th at 3:17am 2005

Yeah, don't make an entire site out of flash

They're slow, usually have terrible interfaces, and require load times.

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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Jan 28th at 3:47am 2005

I hate flash sites because they take control away from the person browsing and put it into the hands of the website designer. It may look spiffy and all, but it hinders access to information and turns browsing the site into an experience more like watching TV where everything is scripted.

Want to open a link in a new tab? Whoops, can't do that. Searching the page with ctrl+f? Can't do that either. Want to resize the font to make reading the page easier? No can do. Want to view the page source? Nope, its all caught up in somewhat inpenetrable a flash file. Trying to copy text with ctrl+c? Nope. FFS, you can't even get an appropriate menu when right clicking on something. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Fri Jan 28th at 7:38am 2005

Yea, I wanted it to make buttons and stuff, not entirely, just put it into a HTML. Hence layers and buttons. Maybe a fading banner up the top. I agree though, they can look tacky if over used.
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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jan 28th at 11:05am 2005

Agree with mazemaster, the only time it should be allowed is for spinkee website effects (e.g. logos, interactive features)



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jan 28th at 3:54pm 2005

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Agree with mazemaster, the only time it should be allowed is for spinkee website effects (e.g. logos, interactive features)


Hmm, I do not agree. Some flash sites do look very amazing.

I try to do some flash design myself. I could have never done this by using (D)HTML, I think: http://thinkinc.4x2.net
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Posted by fishy on Fri Jan 28th at 4:42pm 2005

i built my website with flash. that was almost 2 years ago, and i've not touched flash since, so now i really have no idea how i done it. all i remember is lots and lots of keyframes.

(and you can copy/paste the text, btw )

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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Jan 28th at 5:15pm 2005

Some fully flash websites are good, but most suck. Like the DOA-BC website, thats well made, and some of the other Xbox games websites. [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Sat Jan 29th at 12:32am 2005

It's only good for something minimal with less information, or else it just becomes bloated and restrictive.
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Posted by $loth on Sat Jan 29th at 8:54am 2005

I'm trying to make it for interactive features mostly, I got a book [flash mx 2004 for dummies lol] out from the OLC at my college.
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Posted by haikeebah on Sat Jan 29th at 1:59pm 2005

Flash is like colored lighting, a little goes a LONG way.

Flash is great for certain things, like persistent navigational elements, IF the use of Flash is for organizing a complex nav system (that needs to be able to display extended info on possible destination pages or for sorting things with drop-down or fly-out menus).

And Flash animationed cartoons are great, if the ideas and execution are great.

Flash site intros are RIGHT OUT. They were already old when Flash hit the scene.

I've always wanted to use Flash for miscellaneous tutorials, the way http://www.howstuffworks.com/ does. Less bandwidth and more interactive than a VTM - but of course more work to produce too.

But in general there's so much you can do with a site with coding nowadays (I'm learning the ins and outs of CSS2 - tricky but powerful stuff), that the "all Flash" website isn't really neccessary and might impede the actual site viewing process, IMO.

Oh but to answer the root question - Macromedia has great tutorials http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/





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