HTML5 Overview
HTML5 is currently being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2 HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Sumisho Curl Surge RTE and Microsoft Silverlight.
HTML 5 New APIs
In addition to specifying markup, HTML5 specifies scripting application programming interfaces (APIs).

The canvas element for immediate mode 2D drawing.
Timed media playback
Offline storage …

Create glossy icons to navigation menu for you website. This tutorials illustrates how to create glossy Icons.
1. Open new document of any size and create a shape that going to be a button. The below is the shape I have created.

2. Select some irregular portion of the shape which going to be the higlight area in button. Copy and paste the highligt area to new Layer.

3. Next Apply white to alpha gradient to shape.

Below is the gradient setting I applied.

4. Select the highlight area and scale it by pressing Ctrl …

In this article we are going to create animated background without actionscript that we can use in Banner, Website, Game or any other.
Difficulty:
To Beginners
Final Output File:

Open New Document in Flash using File -> New or Ctrl + N
Change Background color(#090D11) of the document By pressing Ctrl + J or from Properties Dialog box
Create A oval shape With alpha 1% and of any dimension
Convert the Oval Shape to MovieClip by selecting the shape in stage and select Modify-> convert to symbol.. from Menu
Next double click to edit the MovieClip. Create a …

There are many websites include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com use FLV as their video format. But still problem exists to play Flv video files with Windows media player.
Flv files need to be played using special FLV players.
Here comes the Play Flv package that enables the Windows Media Player to play FLV files
Here the Key features

Plugin that enables Windows Media Player to playback FLV files
Features all default functions, such as zooming, skipping and full screen view
Creates file association: Double-click FLV files to play them in Windows Media Player
Very …

Preloaders are much needed for Flash/Flex RIA’s.
Here some of the free preloader animations created by me this morning.

Idea of preloader is indicating the user that some assets are being loaded, and making them to wait.
But we should keep in mind that the user may lost their patience, so keeping the Flash assets filesize minimal is much important while making Flash websites or Flash applications.

This is a kind of effect long back I have seen on a website and recreated for my portfolio site. But unfortunately the harddisk got crashed and lost the files. Today I have seen the same in theflashblog website and recreated the same with minimal code for the designers use.
I made the code so simple to make this useful for beginners also.
Menu can be use to display Images, Works in portfolio sites.
This is a kind of effect that long back I have seen on a website and recreated for my …

The launch of new search engine for Actionscript developers has made the life easier for the developers to search code snippets easier.
HexoSearch – The world’s first search engine dedicated for actionscript.
HexoSearch is aiming to provide the best actionscript search experience which we believe is to offer a best solution for any specific topic.

To achieve that, actionscript developers are able to vote for the link that they find useful. Given enough time, links that provide useful information will be pushed up to save everybody’s time.

We have seen how to create Slideshow using Fader Class.
As requested by many users I updated the FaderFileMaterial Class, now it includes the following features.
Features:
Ability of handling Image and SWF together.
SWF may also be an animated file.
No Need of Preloader- Since the animation will not happens until the next file is loaded.
Customized events to handle the Slideshow
Added Features:

Move to next or previous slides.
Ability to jump to particular slide
Randomize the slide
Updated Documents

FaderFileMaterial.html
FaderURL.html

Featured tutorial:
Creating slideshow from XML and FaderFileMaterial

Patterns make our website background great, instead of using plain background we shall got for pattern background to make our sites look better.
But keep in mind, when you using patterns that should match our website and that should not look different from the website.
There are site where you can download patterns directly for free.
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Everyday Icons

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IF you want to create your own patterns.. no problem there are site where we can generate our own
patterns.
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I recently came across Scalenine.com, Contains useful Flex related stuffs..
The website contains useful Skins and Themes that can be used in Flex and AIR…
I recoment to use the skins and themes to make your Flex application more exciting and cool UI for flex

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Some of the themes contains flash version too ..This site also contains instructions to install the themes..
The theme contains SWF, CSS, and background image too..Hope this will solve our design time in Builder…
Some of the eye catching Flex UI here too
 enjoy
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