Flash technology has more advantages over the other means of website creation. It allows you to create an attractive and breathtaking websites that combine theme-based graphics, action effects, multiple media types – audio, video, text, still images. It provides good opportunities to make your presentation or video game more dynamic, interactive and appealing.
Flash technology gives free rein to flash developers that they can not find anywhere. Flash allows them to place objects where they want without thinking about browser restrictions, problems with templates, tables, screen resolution and others. Flash pages will be displayed properly in all web browsers without any differences.
But what is the first thing we face with while entering a Flash website? Of course, it’s a Flash preloader that indicates the loading status of your website and creates a first impression about it. So, Flash designers should not only think out the whole website structure and design, but the preloading moment as well, because it’s a Flash prealoder that all visitors turn their eyes to.
Below is the list of Flash tutorials that will help you create an attractive Flash preloader – essential Flash component of your website.
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TheFlashBlog.com
This tutorial is written by Lee Brimelow is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities. This video tutorial shows you how to create a completely customized Flex preloader using Flash CS4.
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Flashexplained.com
In this detailed tutorial made for Flash 8, you will see how easy it is to create a preloading system that is gradually displaying an image as your site loads. It will show you the following: how to import an image into Flash, how to create a rectangular movie clip and turn it into a mask, how to write ActionScript that will power the preloader and more.
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Flash.Tutsplus.com
In this tutorial Carlos Yanez, a Web/Logo Designer, Flash Developer with passion for great designs and cool applications, help you create an Apple inspired preloader MovieClip and teach you how to display some loading information. All this using Flash and ActionScript 3.0.
This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced preloader which determines not only the actual percent, but the Bytes Loaded, Bytes Remaining, and other neat stuff. To replicate all the steps, you should be completely familiar with Flash.
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Flashkit.com
Another great and detailed tutorial on how to create an original preloader in a clock form. Click on the “Play” button to see how ir works.
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Adobe.com
This tutorial is written by Jamie Kosoy, a senior developer at Big Spaceship. He provides an introduction to writing classes and walks you through some of the nuances of the new language by building a modular preloader. Along the way, he identifies the best practices to optimize performance and suggest strategies for reskinning artwork to achieve a desired look and feel. This article covers the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0. Some knowledge of ActionScript 2.0 is recommended but not necessary.
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Learnflash.com
This great video tutorial is presented by LearnFlash.com and shows you step by step how to create an attractive Flash preloader. You can hear the voice of an expert who recorded this video and see every movement on his computer screen, as if you were sitting right beside him. Such videos, sometimes referred to as “Quickstarts” can reduce training time from days to just a few hours.
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Kirupa.com
By the end of this tutorial, you will learn how to create a preloader – a progress bar indicating how much of your content is being loaded. After the preloader has finished loading, the image will become visible. The tutorial consists of two parts. One part will focus on how to create the preloader animation and code, and the second part will discuss integrating your preloader with an existing application such as one that loads an image from an external location.
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Flashexplained.com
| This easy, detailed Flash 8 pro lesson will show you how to make a sleek green sphere preloader for your website. In this lesson, you will learn: how to create a sphere with a realistic depth effect, how to use the great filters in Flash 8 pro to achieve a realistic sphere, how to use transparency combined with radial gradient fills in Flash, how to create a beveled ring around your preloader, how to create a dynamic text field with pixel fonts and extra effects added to it, how to load an external SWF and more.
Here is an example of how your preloader will look like at the end of this lesson. This is a simulation of course, no real preloading is happening in the example. |
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FlashFridge.com
Using this thoroughly explained, detailed, action script flash lesson, you will see how to create very trendy stars preloader. You will also learn how to draw stars using the Line Tool, how to convert preloader into a Movie Clip Symbol, how to create Motion Tween and much, much more!
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Toxiclab.org
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Take a look at this lesson and learn how to create attractive preloader using the picture and action script. You will also learn how to convert an image into a Movie Clip Symbol, how to apply on it alpha effect, how to convert any layer into a mask, how to create percent for preloader and more. Here is how your Flash preloader will look like. |
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FlashFridge.com
In this tutorial, you will see how to create a black and white preloader with percent. To create this tutorial, you have to use a little Action Script code. You will also learn how to design a preloader, how to animate it and more. This lesson is perfect for newbies because it doesn’t require profound knowledge. Just follow the steps and at the end you will get something like this.
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