Web-Related Flash Lessons

Google Adsense is the big thing in making money from any website, whether it's pocket change or this month's rent. But how do you make the Adsense code work with Flash?

You can bring bluescreen/greenscreen video into Flash to create a transparent movie played on top of web page content using wmode, but before you do that you have to do a little work in Premiere to clean the video up and prepare it for work in Flash.

Once your bluescreen/greenscreened images have been prepared in Premiere, it's time to move them into Flash and get them ready to go on the web.

Upgrade your static thumbnail gallery with Flash animations to make your thumbnails interactive, and keep all of your content contained on a single page.

This continuation on the lesson on animated Flash thumbnail galleries shows how to use movie clips to animate your content appearing and disappearing.

Using swapDepths in Flash to change the depth of your tabbed content windows, you can create an intuitive and stylish content display with easy navigation.

To start off simply, we're just going to create the foundation for a basic text menu with rollover links.

Your Flash popup tooltips don't have to just appear and disappear; you can also animate them entering the scene in any numbers of ways. This demonstration shows one expanding to full size.

Use getURL to create a clickable button that uses JavaScript to bookmark your URL in Internet Explorer.

While you don't want to count on this for definite site or application security, you can use this basic password script as part of a game or any other fun animation.

While designing a website in Flash, it's easy to assume that your viewers will not have some version of the Macromedia Flash player. However, you may find that a large percentage of your users either have an older version of the Flash player or none at all. For these users, it's helpful to have a non-Flash version of your website available.

When referring to "Flash", sometimes it can be a little unclear what we're referring to--the Flash software, or the Flash player.

If you're publishing for the web, you'll need to be able to insert your SWF file into your website's layout. Here's a quick guide that will help you figure out how.

You can expand your Flash movies to fit any browser at any side just by changing the measurements in the HTML embedding to fit a percentage instead of a fixed pixel amount.

When is it better to use an animated GIF, and when is it better to use an SWF?

Create your own customizable Flash rollover-style tooltip popups, using a simple two-frame movie clip and a little ActionScripting.

Whether it bounces, jiggles, squiggles, wiggles, glitters, or just sits there looking pretty, you can turn it into your own custom Flash mouse cursor to replace the default.

Flash's getURL command lets you make a hyperlink out of any graphic or symbol.

The first part of setting up a website in Flash is designing a GUI (graphical user interface) as a "container" for your content, and then making that GUI workable.

With a web page design set up, now we need to create the basis for our different content pages and tell our buttons how to point to them--which, in Flash, is a bit of a different process than it might be in HTML.

For this lesson we're going to integrate a little simple copy-paste Javascript into our ActionScripting--using thumbnail graphics as clickable buttons to open custom-sized popup windows containing HTML content, right from our Flash movie.

You can import video files into Flash's library just as you import other media files, but they're handled just a little bit differently. This lesson covers the simplest ways to work with video in Flash.

Since we've started using video in Flash, it stands to reason that we'd need video playback controls, as well. This lesson shows you how to add playback control buttons to turn your video display into your own simple media player.

Just because your Flash movie is a fixed size doesn't mean that you have to pare down all of your text so that it will fit into a single tiny space; you can create scrollable areas inside Flash so that even when your content is too large for the movie area, you can still make sure that it's entirely visible.

This is a simple, animated Flash menu that drops down/expands when your mouse rolls over the menu header.

Can publishing Flash movies in video format save space and lower filesize?