Editor's Pick in Design Principles, November 2005
Use Flash with care, advises Luke Humble. Understand your audience, and view your intended animation in a variety of environments before releasing your site.

Easter eggs you say. What is an Easter egg? An Easter egg is a bit of fun code created by developers and then hidden inside a program. I don’t know if “Easter Eggs” are official or not, but they do exist. I guess they keep program developers sane!..

There is no point in being able to create great Flash movies if you cannot Publish the movie to the web! This tutorial looks at the group of files that is created as Part of the Publishing process and goes through the steps that you need to know in order to get your Flash movie onto a web page...

Like most programs MX 2004 has a few bugs. To improve stability of Flash MX 2004 Macromedia recommend that you install the updater. Macromedia just released the second update to Macromedia Flash MX 2004, code-named Ellipsis , which updates Flash MX 2004 to version 7.2...

There are many ways of getting pictures for your web page or Flash file, the most simple is to scan an image. You can also get images from the web as there are millions out there. This tutorials covers scanning and copying images from the web. These will be Bitmap images (pictures which are made of ...

Web Safe A web safe colour is one that will display correctly on any screen, irrespective of the operating system or graphics card. There are only 216 web safe colours. You can use other colours, but you cannot be sure they will display correctly. A general rule of thumb is: if possible use a...

If you have access to a sound editing application, you should use it to optimize your sounds before importing them into Flash®. The following are some tips to optimize your audio...

Knowing how to get around the Sound tab in the Frame Properties window will facilitate the use of your audio. Below is a diagram that illustrates the various sound controls in Flash®...

There are 4 synchronization options from which to choose: Event, Start, Stop and Stream as shown in the diagram below...

Editor's Pick in Flash Articles, April 2005
When considering whether or not to incorporate Flash into your website, you must also consider the target market you are trying to reach...