Editor's Pick in Flash Articles, April 2005
When considering whether or not to incorporate Flash into your website, you must also consider the target market you are trying to reach...

Easter eggs you say. What is an Easter egg? An Easter egg is a bit of fun code created by developers and then hidden inside a program. I don’t know if “Easter Eggs” are official or not, but they do exist. I guess they keep program developers sane!..

Editor's Pick in Design Principles, November 2005
Use Flash with care, advises Luke Humble. Understand your audience, and view your intended animation in a variety of environments before releasing your site.

Like most programs MX 2004 has a few bugs. To improve stability of Flash MX 2004 Macromedia recommend that you install the updater. Macromedia just released the second update to Macromedia Flash MX 2004, code-named Ellipsis , which updates Flash MX 2004 to version 7.2...

For an attentive study of the work of others, an analysis of their design decisions, understanding one or another moment when Flash technology was chosen in their designs, it can be quite helpful to download what you find an interesting Flash clip in an editor and scrutinize it in frame-by-frame mod...

Now that more and more people are jumping onto the Macromedia Flash application bandwagon I'm starting to see a growing number of questions about security and Macromedia Flash. In particular, developers are often unsure if Macromedia Flash applications can have the same level of security...

If you have access to a sound editing application, you should use it to optimize your sounds before importing them into Flash®. The following are some tips to optimize your audio...

Editor's Pick in Flash Tutorials, May 2006
Just the mere mention of the words "template animation" will make most people run for the hills. But there is no need to think that way at all. Take a look at this tutorial to find out why.

Until recently the most well-known and widely-used method for transferring variables of a Flash movie from HTML-view, was the addition of the segments to the URL of .swf-document, as shown below...

Swift 3D is the most versatile tool for creating web-ready 3D animations for use with Macromedia Flash. Through the combination of an easy-to-use interface, the industry standard vector exporter and a full ray tracing rendering engine, Swift 3D enables 3D novices and veterans alike to quickly create...