Watch and Learn Illustrator!

1 - Welcome (Running Time: 0:54)
In this video, Craig welcomes you to the series and gives you a brief explanation of what to expect.

2 - Your First Website (Running Time: 16:32)
Building a basic website in Flash can be easier than you might think.  In this video, Craig teaches you some of the basic theory behind putting a website together using Flash, and he jumps right in and gets you started creating your first website.

3 - Making it Work (Running Time: 25:03)
A website won't do you much good if your buttons won't take you from one page to the next.  In this video, Craig shows you how to add actions to your buttons in order to create basic navigation for your site.

4 - Page Transitions, Part 1 (Running Time: 9:46)
In this video Craig sets the stage for creating animated transitions between pages in a website.  This video in particular simply involves filling out the content in preparation for animation. 

5 - Page Transitions, Part 2 (Running Time: 17:07)
Now that everything is prepared, Craig walks you through the process of creating some simple animated transitions between pages that will occur when a button is pressed.

6 - The if() Statement (Running Time: 10:18)
In this video, Craig highlights the if() statement in ActionScript and shows you how you can use it to enhance your page navigation.

7 - Invisible Buttons (Running Time: 17:14)
In this video, Craig shows you how to use invisible buttons to disable underlying buttons.

8 - Disabling Buttons (Running Time: 11:01)
In this video, Craig shows you how to achieve the same effect that was talked about in the last video (namely, the disabling of buttons), except this time, he shows you how to do it using the buttons "enabled" property.

9 - Introduction to Variables (Running Time: 12:31)
A variable is a placeholder where you can store data.  In this video, Craig walks you through the declaration of variables and shows you how to assign values to a variable and how to change those values dynamically.

10 - Using Variables for Navigation (Running Time: 11:17)
Using the foundation he built in video 9 on variables, Craig shows you how to use variables to keep track of the current page in your website.  Using variables in this manner allows you more flexibility in customizing your site navigation.

11 - Website Tour (Running Time: 6:51)
Well, it's about time to get started on the project website for the video series.  In this video, Craig gives you a quick tour of the website and outlines the topics that will be covered for the rest of the video series.

12 - Creating the Products Section (Running Time: 16:11)
In the next 4 videos, Craig walks you through the construction of the products section of the project website.  In this first video, he introduces you to the starter file for this mini-project and shows you how to get started creating the intro animation.

13 - The Products Section, Part 2 (Running Time: 12:22)
In this second video, Craig continues with the introductory animation that plays when the products section of the website is first called.

14 - The Products Section, Part 3 (Running Time: 15:21)
This video covers phase 3 of the introductory animation in the products section.

15 - The Products Section, Part 4 (Running Time: 30:30)
In this video, Craig wraps up the creation of the products section by filling in the content and adding interactivity to the buttons.

16 - Creating a Slideshow (Running Time: 14:36)
After a grueling bout with the products sections, it's time to take a quick break from our project website.  In this video, Craig starts with a blank page and shows you how to build a slideshow using Flash MX 2004.

17 - Movie Clip States (Running Time: 26:44)
The button symbol, as you should know by now, has four different states: Up, Over, Down, and Hit.  In this video, Craig shows you how to create movie clip symbols that use this same idea of "states" to accomplish various tasks.

18 - Creating Your Navigation (Running Time: 27:14)
In this video, Craig will walk you through the project site once again, this time highlighting and explaining the navigation techniques he used to create it.  Then, he gets you started setting up the pages for the navigation.

19 - Creating Navigation, Part 2 (Running Time: 23:20)
Now that the graphics are placed on the stage, Craig shows you how to create animations for each of the pages in the site.

20 - Creating Navigation, Part 3 (Running Time: 11:00)
In this video, Craig teaches you the ActionScript needed for the onRollOver event of each of the buttons in the main navigation.

21 - The currentPage Variable (Running Time: 47:55)
In this video, Craig puts his previous discussion about variables (see videos 9 & 10) to practical use in the project website.  Now that the navigation has been constructed, Craig uses a variable that he names "currentPage" to control the flow of the navigation and the transitions between pages.

22 - Scrolling Text (Running Time: 22:40)
Every beginning Flash user wants to know how to create scrolling text, and in this video, you'll discover that's it's a lot easier than you might think.  Craig will teach you how to use the "scroll" property of a dynamic text field to make this happen.

23 - Continuous Scrolling (Running Time: 8:15)
Okay, so you can create buttons now that will scroll your text one line at a time.  But what if you want to just click on the scroll arrow and allow the text to keep scrolling until you let go of the mouse button?  Well, fear not!  In this video, Craig will show you how to add just a LITTLE bit of extra code to accomplish this.

24 - Creating the Header Animation (Running Time: 27:25)
What is there to say, except that in this video, Craig will show you how to create the header animation for the project website?

25 - Filling in the Home Page (Running Time: 16:32)
This video simply walks you through creating the remaining content for the home page of the project site.

26 - Creating Custom Forms (Running Time: 26:00)
The bad news is that it takes more than JUST Flash in order to create forms that will send and receive information to and from your server.  But the good news is that it CAN be done.  In this video, Craig will show you how to take a custom form created for html from a CGI script and convert that form so that it can be used in Flash.

27 - Performing Calculations (Running Time: 26:30)
Unless you're a math nut, this section can be pretty boring, but the good news is that it's easy.  You will need to learn this stuff if you plan on adding any calculations to your website, such as in the "Profit Calculator" section of our project site.

28 - Adding More Content (Running Time: 22:47)
This video contains more instruction on adding basic content to the project website.

29 - More on the Invisible Button (Running Time: 16:11)
If you have pages layered upon pages, you need some way to disable the buttons on the the pages underneath.  If you don't, you may accidentally click on something that you can't even see on the stage.  In this video, Craig shows you how invisible buttons can solve this problem.

30 - Loading Text from a Text File (Running Time: 33:29)
Let's say you have some text in your Flash file that you plan on updating quite often.  Is there a simply way to update this text without having to go into your Flash file?  Well, yes there is!  In this video, Craig will show you how.

31 - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - (Running Time: 19:11)
In this video, Craig will introduce you to CSS and show you how you can tie a stylesheet to a dynamic text field in order to customize the look of the text. 

32 - Fixing Those Pesky Bugs (Running Time: 10:49)
After creating most of what turned out to be a very complex website, Craig noticed a couple of glitches with the file.  In this video and the next, he humbly points out the bugs, and shows you how he approaches fixing them.  In this video, the bug he fixes deals with problems with the dynamic text field where info was loaded from an external file.

33 - Fixing Those Bugs, Part 2 (Running Time: 15:46)
The bug in this video deals with fickle users.  You'll have to watch the video to see what we mean by that, but in this video, Craig again uses invisible buttons to solve a pesky problem.

34 - Importing an External swf (Running Time: 16:14)
Remember back when we created our products section as a whole separate file? Well, in this video, Craig will show you how to import that swf file into our main website file.

35 - Creating Advanced Preloaders (Running Time: 34:29)
The subject of preloaders can be an intimidating subject to a lot of beginning Flash users, but it's not as difficult as you might think.  In this video, Craig breaks down the steps for creating a preloader so that anyone can understand it.

36 - Finishing Touches (Running Time: 5:45)
In this video, Craig wraps up the video series by showing you how to enhance your final product in just a couple of simple steps by altering the html file that Flash publishes for you.

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