Flash Block
Well that’s depressing. I’m a MASSIVE Flash fanatic. I love how the program is built, the interface, the freedom it provides. All these things make Flash one of my favourite programs, except for the past year or so I’ve got to say I’ve only really used it for colouring in and completing my images. The real reason behind that is I’ve been concentrating on creating content for a portfolio website, and that CSS has been occupying my time immensely.
I finally sat down today to try and start on the often beleaguered Emmortel.com. I thought well might as well have a nice animated button on BK. So I fired up the program,…and NOTHING. I’ve forgotten soo much. I guess everything is practice, but it’s pretty scary how rusty I am since I was really getting into Action scripting a year ago, and now I’ve got to effectively start from the beginning in that department!!
Nothing like a challenge really, since I’ve got less than a month to whip out a portfolio website, with a WordPress front page and a completely Flash interface.
Goto Flashkit or somesite related to flash and download some already made movies by some people. Look at whats happening and slowly slowly it will come back to you.
Worked for me when you dragged me back in:-)
6/4/2005
Yeah Flashkit is on the top of my list of things to go to. Trust me though, a lot has happened from Flash 2004 to Flash MX. Loads of great little additions that will probably drive me insane to get to work.
Remember if a standard website takes 1 hour to make, the same website in Flash will take 60 hours :)
6/4/2005
No it doesnt Khaled! You just overdo things sometimes and dont deny it i’ll cybersmack you!:-p
7/4/2005
hey khaled. when you had your links listed here, you somehow managed to produce the ‘zebra color’ effect. I did some search on the forums and found where you were having trouble…care to share the solution with me?
7/4/2005
Hey Zaque, well I did it the hard way back then, there is always an easier way, like what I’ve done on this iteration, http://www.brokenkode.com/links. The basic idea is to use the get_linksbyname function. You’re then presented automatically with an odd and even class for your links. This is all built into the core WordPress functionality btw. Just skin your classes accordingly.
7/4/2005
I can’t seem to figure it out. Thanks for your time, though.
8/4/2005
Flash kit or ‘block’ sounds good… but what the f&8k is it! …. heck I will CYBERSMACK YOU TOO!!!
8/4/2005
You just wanted to use the term cybersmack :)
9/4/2005