Web Safe A web safe colour is one that will display correctly on any screen, irrespective of the operating system or graphics card. There are only 216 web safe colours. You can use other colours, but you cannot be sure they will display correctly. A general rule of thumb is: if possible use a...

There are 4 synchronization options from which to choose: Event, Start, Stop and Stream as shown in the diagram below...

There is no point in being able to create great Flash movies if you cannot Publish the movie to the web! This tutorial looks at the group of files that is created as Part of the Publishing process and goes through the steps that you need to know in order to get your Flash movie onto a web page...

These days, Flash users fall into two main categories: designers, who can dream up amazing Flash user interfaces, and developers, who spend most of their time pressing Ctrl+Enter. The Flash developer is a relatively new moniker. It describes someone who prefers to interact with Flash using a text ed...

Flash is a powerful web technology that achieves a high level of visual impact from the graphical point of view. Unfortunately, it is widely misused in web design. There are still many problems with Flash, especially related to usability and search engine behaviour; we need to thoroughly understand ...

Swish is an enormously grand way to include flash effects to your site. It includes making small movies run without Macromedia Flash plug-ins. Swish stands for Simple Web Indexing System for Humans. With it you can easily index directories of files and search the generated indexes...

Maintaining direction adds a sense of consistency throughout your Flash scenes.

Getting your Flash on TV? Isn't Flash for the Web? Yeah, that's right. Macromedia's Flash can be used to create videos for television. Why would you want to do this if it's gonna cost you time and money?

Flash movies can be a great thing. They can help catch eyes that are otherwise bored with static looking pages, and they can help tell a story better than plain text.

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When considering whether or not to incorporate Flash into your website, you must also consider the target market you are trying to reach...