11 Best Professional Tutorials on Flash Menu and Navigation

This is the greatest collection of professional tutorials that will teach you how to create a stunning Flash menu and navigation – a necessary flash component for any flash website. And though Flash less and less is used while creating a website, we all tend to agree that animated pages look more attractive and interactive than the static ones. But we have to remember one more detail: website menu should be not only beautiful but usable presenting the whole website structure and making browsing pleasant and convenient. And these detailed tutorials will help you resolve this urgent task and choose the right decision for your website.

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Glass Aero Flash Menu with Fade Effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to make vista aero flash menu with awesome fade effect in Flash CS3.

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Posted by Steve, January 18th, 2010 in Tutorials
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Extremely Useful Collection of Free Flash Animated Menus

These Flash menu components provide an easy way to add a vertical or horizontal, even two-level menus to your Flash websites. But some of the flash components can also be used in static HTML pages. All menu parameters are fully customizable: you can change color, font size, color of rollover keys, buttons and etc. They are search engine friendly and doesn’t require any additional software.

The flash menu components presented here are easy and simple to use, they provide optimal usability making website browsing convenient and fast. Take advantage of these quality free flash menu components and create a captivating website menu navigation in two minutes!

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Circular Menu

This Flash circular menu is characterized by the ability to easily change (at runtime of desired) aspects of the menu like the inner radius, item spacing, visible items and much more. Play with the demo to see it by yourself.

Download flash circular menu with source files here.

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Posted by Steve, January 18th, 2010 in Freebies
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Free Flash Components available at FlashScope


Every professional Flash developer knows that the best and affordable means to enhance Flash website functionality is to take advantage of Flash components. Flash components are stand-alone Flash extensions that can be easily integrated into your Flash design. They greatly save your time by adding new exciting captivating features to Flash websites.

Flash components can be: animated photo albums and portfolios, Flash menus or even complete site navigation, flash forms, guestbooks, RSS, flash preloaders, video and MP3 players, movieclips, motion, masking and text effects, flash maps and weather widgets, animated backgrounds and many others.

If you start searching for advanced Flash components, you’ll come across a great deal of websites. But probably FlashScope.com is one of the most reliable providers of high quality products. Go and see for yourself! Below are some exclusive free Flash components available at FlashScope.com.

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Free Flash Photo Gallery

This free Flash photo gallery is created with Flash MX 2004 with use of XML file to store information about photos and descriptions. There are no hosting requirements. The black background makes the other colors stand out and it contrasts well with bright colors, so it’s a perfect color for the online galleries of art or photography.

Download flash photo gallery here.

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Posted by Steve, January 18th, 2010 in Freebies, News
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