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Preloaders are a vitally important part of any Flash website. Without them, your users are left staring at a blank screen until the website finally loads. It's important to let your users know that something is loading and to give them an idea of how long they'll have to wait for it. In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create effective and eye-catching text and graphical preloaders for your Flash websites.

In this video series, Flash guru Craig Campbell shows you some of his favorite techniques for drawing complex shapes and illustrations in the Flash authoring environment. In the series, you'll learn techniques for drawing simple shapes, cartoon characters, and even photorealistic vector drawings.

In this series, former Sony Online Entertainment animator Thad Clevenger walks the beginner through the basics of where video on the Internet came from, what it is, and where it is going. He also walks you through the confusing maze of the major video formats, how to encode video, and directs you to various free or shareware encoders.

Craig Campbell then picks up and walks you through the process of how to put video on your website. This well known Flash Guru will also bring his mastery of Dreamweaver 8 into this series as he crosses over into how to add video using Dreamweaver 8.

In this series, Flash trainer Craig Campbell introduces you to the concept of creating Flash elements for an HTML website. Throughout this series, you'll learn how to create animated headers, Flash menus, Flash buttons, slideshows, music players, and video players using Flash, and then once you've created these standalone Flash files, you'll learn how to insert them effectively into your HTML website. This series assumes a basic familiarity with Flash and HTML.

In this video series, Craig unleashes the power of Flash Professional 8 on the Flash web development process. Throughout the course of this series, you'll learn everything you need to know to create your own jaw-dropping website in Flash 8. But even if you don't HAVE the latest version of Flash, this video series is still for you. From time to time, throughout the course of this series, Craig jumps back and forth between older versions of Flash in order to illustrate how to achieve some of the same feats for those of you who don't have version 8.

At its core, XML is simply a way of sharing and storing data on the Internet, and it allows you to create some highly dynamic content. And when you combine XML with Flash, it becomes even more powerful. In this video series, Flash trainer Craig Campbell discusses how to import XML data into Flash, and then he walks you through several projects, demonstrating how to create a slideshow, a music player, and a video player that all pull their information from XML text files.

This new series goes more in depth on constructing a website in Flash than any other series we've released! We will walk you through the construction of an entire website from start to finish. You will learn everything from laying out your content to creating high-quality animated transitions between pages. You will learn how to use ActionScript 2.0 to add interactivity to your websites. You will also learn how to create advanced preloaders that will show your user the loading progress of your site. On top of all this, you will learn how to create slideshows, forms, and much more.

Flash trainer Craig Campbell teaches you the tips and techniques you need in order to create high quality animations in Flash. This series was recorded using Flash Professional 8 and Flash MX 2004, so no matter what version of Flash you're using, this series is for you.

(Click here to see the animated intro we'll be creating throughout the course of this video series.)

  Prerequisites:  "Introduction to Flash" or at least a basic understanding of how to get around in the Flash environment.

In this latest release you will learn how to design and build a simple Arcade style shooting game in Flash. Once you learn the basics, there are an unlimited number of possibilities for creating your own games. If you are new to Actioncript, this series is a great introduction to the programming side of Flash that makes it such a powerful tool. And hey, why not have a little fun by creating a game at the same time.