XML in Flash

Learn my award winning technique for separating presentation from content. It allows producers and designers to work concurrently instead of making designers wait for content from producers. You'll be twice as productive and you'll never program the same way again.

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  Learn to build a horizontal platform game.

  Ray shows you how to build a fairly complex platform game using Flash and ActionScript with walking, jumping, gravity, friction, ladders, multiple levels, etc.
  
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  Encapsulation

  Flash allows you to embed movie clips inside other movie clips. An important concept to master is a clear understanding of the Flash hierarchy. This lesson teaches you to control the structure of your flash piece by purposely creating complex clips.
  
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  The Joy of Preloading

  Preloaders give visual feedback to your users about the loading progress of large flash documents. In this tutorial Ray Villalobos teaches you how to build extremely re-usable preloaders. He also covers building common libraries and templates to make your workflow more efficient.
  
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  XML in Flash

  Learn my award winning technique for separating presentation from content. It allows producers and designers to work concurrently instead of making designers wait for content from producers. You'll be twice as productive and you'll never program the same way again.
  
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  Pixel Transition and masking

  Create a neat pixel style flash transition using masking and a pattern developed with Adobe Illustrator. Learn the basics of masking to create animations.
  

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  Working with FTP Applications

  FTP, the File Transfer Protocol is one of the many languages of the Internet. This article shows you how to work with FTP on a 1&1 host and use programs like Transmit and FileZilla to update your server.
  
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  Setting up a Password Protected Directory in 1 & 1

  Setting up directories which are protected from normal visitors is a great way to develop projects visible only to some people. It's a great way to stage a site for a client before releasing it to the public. 1&1's awesome control panel makes it easy.
  
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  Creating a Self Grading Test or Quiz in Google Docs

  Google docs allows teachers or anyone to create forms for quizes, polls and tests quickly and easily. The results of the tests are stored in an Google Spreadsheet that can be programmed to quickly calculate your test results.
  
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  Create a Button that clicks to a Website URL in Flash using ActionScript 3

  If you're used to working with ActionScript 2.0, figuring out how to make a button click to a URL has change din ActionScript 3. This is a little hard to find in all of the manuals so I wrote a short tutorial on it.
  
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  Learn a simple way to code a form

  Building forms in HTML can be challenging. Here's a very simple HTML form beautifully styled with CSS that you can use as a starter for your web pages. It has an example of code for the most common html elements.
  
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  How to make your website relevant to search engines

  Part 1 of a three part series discussing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques you can use to improve your ranking on search engines. This part examines how search engines work and some basic things you can do to improve your ranking.
  
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  Using Inbound Links for better SEO

  Inbound links are links to your website from external sources. This is an important way to generate traffic and a good ranking with search engines. Part 2 of a 3 part series on Search Engine Optimization.
  
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  Writing for Search Engines

  Writing content that is easily searchable means learning to write in a very specific manner that is both semantic and spider friendly. In the last part of my three-part series on Search Engine Optimization, I talk about what you can do within your pages to get SEO results.
  
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  A simple way to place Flash SWF's on HTML pages

  Placing .swf files in your web pages can be complicated. The code that Flash creates when you publish a document can be daunting. I've created a simpler way using JavaScript to place these documents on your web pages.
  
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  Freelancing, Business and Contract Basics for the Web Designer

  Graphic Designers, Web Developers, Photographers and all other professionals in the creative field end up freelancing at one point or another, but freelancing is rarely taught in school. This article explains the process and some of the caveats when freelancing in the web design industry