Flash Links and References
| Flash Links | |
| Flash DevCenter | Adobe provides a very rich development center with tutorials, free components, articles, etc. |
| Flex DevCenter | Flex development center at Adobe |
| Flash/Flex | Adobe's Flash/Flex Open Source projects |
| Flash Exchange | Adobe site for freeware/trialware Flash tools and software |
| Flex Exchange | Adobe sight for freeware/trialware Flex software |
| Flex Org | Flexblog and news site |
| Air DevCenter | AIR devlopment center at Adobe |
| Flash Sales | Main Adobe Flash sales/promo site |
| Hotscripts | Flash books, tips, tutorials, software and scripts |
| FlashKit | definitive source of news, views, tips, tutorials and over 7000 Flash.fla files |
| Flash Goddess | an artist oriented site with good Flash creative insights and sample work |
| FlashForum | German Flash website has it all im Deutsche |
| Flash Magazine | whats going on in the Flash industry - the real independent deal, see here |
| SWFNews | primarily Flash and Flash Communication Server News; but also ColdFusion and Dreamweaver |
| SWFTools | excellent site describing the nearly 200 3rd party Flash utilities and support tools |
| RIA Coverage | |
| Adobe Expert | Andrew Shorten is an Adobe Evangelist on RIA |
| AJAXWorld | Obnoxious but covers the RIA field comprehensively |
| AJAX Alliance | All over the RIA map but leaning towards JavaScript |
| DesigningInterface | This is all about Designing Web Interfaces with patterns and a variety of tools |
| Finkle's View | Mark Finkle has another influential RIA blog |
| RIAUtilizer | Broad change pof topics on RIA design |
| RIAVoices | Lots of the latest news in the RIA arena |
| UIResourceCenter | A resource center for User Interface and RIA design ideas |
| Wikipedia RIA | Good overview of RIA Applications and tools |
| Sites Specializing in tutorials | |
| CommunityMX | acromedia holdouts nontheless have very good Flash, Dreamweaver, MX tutorials |
| Moock.org | Colin Moock has written one of the definitive books on ActionScript, his site is Flash-full |
| FlashComponents | hoards of really good flash Components for sale here |
| Flash Loaded | also has a hoards of Flash components, templates, sounds, and other Flash objects for sale |
| Kirupa | a very well illustrated set of Flash tutorials right to CS4 |
| SWF Tools | A large compendium of Flash tools - freeware and trialware |
| UltraSHOCK | Great set of Flash resources and demos; this site demos the upside and downside of going all Flash on a website and all black in background color. Flash at its best and worst. |
| Sites Specializing in FLA and SWF Services | |
| ActionScript.org | Another ActionScript site with great scripts and graded tutorials as well |
| BestBefore | Novel Flash demos show off nifty effects and stylings - great ideas here |
| FlashMx Library | Friends of Ed publishers have extended library of Flash files/projects |
| Flash Components | One of the earliest and best Flash Component sites, great demos |
| Flash Den | Flash components and website templates for sale |
| FlashStore | All sorts of flash components and resources for sale here. | Flash Software Vendors |
| Adobe Flash | Start here for best scripting and debugging for creating SWF files |
| Electric Rain | Swift3D is the premier method of getting 3D content into Flash |
| FlashDen | sells Flash components and templates |
| Flash Sources | AS2 and earlier menu, banner, gallery and effect components |
| Jumpeye | Strong set of Flash AS2 and As3 components for use with FlexBuilder or Flash |
| LostMarble | Moho is a nifty cartooning program with clever automated kinematics and output to video or SWF |
| ManituGroup | produces a SWF decompiler which extracts, ActionScript plus grapic, video, audio resources |
| MDM | MDM's Zinc platform continues to deliver Flash and Flex apps |
| Swarm | Developers of National Geographic caliber Flash demos |
| SWF Studio | SWF studio expands the greatly the options for displaying/controling SWFs |
| Swishzone | SwishMax is the one of the best creative design tools available for great Flash effects |
| ToonBoom | Animation and cartoons for everybody- nifty software |
| Wildform | Presentation sw in Flash, Flash Video, SWF Control, and Special effects code-great design links too |
| Just a little commentary. I have updated this page again in early 2010 and its sobering to see that
a number of excellent Flash Support websites have disappeared. Most were 3rd party sites that covered the fast evolving Flash
scene. Most of the sites existed just 2-4 years ago and were dynamic and interesting enough to make this resource/links
listing. Here are some of the lost Flash websites: ActionScript Toolbox, BannerDesigns, CBTCafe, Flog, Flash Candy, Flash Blog, Flash Composer, Flash Developer, Flash Devils, Flash Forum, Flash Fruit, Flash Guru, Flash MXLibrary, FlashPro, FlasherWeb, iBoost, Macromedia DevCenter(some merger doubts), Mind Avenue(au revoir Axel Edge), RubberDuck,Virtual Fx. Now to be sure many of these sites still exist but have become either stagnant or Google Adsense exploitation sites. |
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