I’ve been getting questions about Adobe® Flash®, so I thought I’d create this basic tutorial. I’m not a programmer, so there will be very little action scripting. The purpose of this lesson will be to cover timeline animation and the skills necessary to create a basic .swf file and embed it on a web page. Since the animation in the header of my web site was very simple and easy to create, I’ll use it as the example. The basic timeline principles are the same in most versions of Flash.

[This Tutorial as of April. 2008]

Adobe® Flash® is the most popular way to add animation and interactivity to web pages. When you work on a flash project, the source file that you save is a .fla. When you want to see how your project will look on a web page, you will ‘publish’ the file as an .swf file which is embedded into a .html file. An ‘object’ tag which contains the parameters for the flash ‘movie’ can be embedded into an html file with Dreamweaver® or using the Flash application itself. This lesson will be for the Windows operating system (Sorry Mac Users). So let us go through the process, step by step…

Here are the images that I will work with. They’ve been created in Photoshop (see my web design tutorial). Note that most of them have transparent edges. To create this effect (In Photoshop), select and copy each element from a layer of the design and paste into a new canvas. Make sure that the background layer is turned off. Save as a .png file and select Interlace:None from the PNG Options.

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