http://www.zefrank.com/theshow Great commentator about politics and the mundane.  Plus he’s a designer too!

http://www.actionscript.org Flash code that’s written fairly well (sorry flashkit). Searchable.

http://www.friendsofed.com A publishing company that publishes books on Flash, Photoshop, PHP and just about everything dealing with interactive design and development.  Plus, their sample files for all books are free to download!!

http://www.homestarrunner.com It’s funny just listening to Homestar’s voice.

http://www.askaninja.com One of my favorite sites to waste time on.  Basically it’s videos of a ninja answering pretty random questions.  My favorite is the one about KillaCon.  Funny stuff.

The FWA (Favourite Website Awards) See what’s hot with Flash so you can feel bad about how much your stuff sucks. That’s what I do! Cool desktop images as well.

Below is the code I use for all buttons I make. It’s short and easily. The parameter you pass into the function is mainly the section name and also the button name. Really easy to use…. Create 3 movie clips on the stage called “section1″,”section2”, and “section3”. Inside each movie clip have “in” and “out” labels. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// // This function controls all the buttons createButton = function (item) { //whatever button your rollover, do this… […]

Here’s a site I’ve created for Starz that uses the ON2VP6 codec that supports alpha channels: Starz On Demand Demo The hosts were shot on a green screen, taken into After Effects, keyed out, and exported as FLV using the ON2VP6 codec. Then it’s brought into flash dynamically!

My first post! The idea behind this blog is to keep my past and current Flash students up on what’s happening with Flash and pretty much anything that’s cool on the Internet concerning Interactive Designers. Also it’s going to be an archive for me of code and urls important to Flash. I also hope to post links to some projects here, which will live on www.paultrani.com. In general if you want to find out more […]

http://www.flashvideofaq.com Very useful and easy reference for comparing video codecs for Flash. Part art. Part science.