Shape Tween in Flash

Flash can create two types of tweened animation using timeline: Motion Tween & Shape Tween Creation of Motion/Shape tween using timeline is the basics of Flash. By tweening shapes, you can create an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another shape over time. Flash can also tween the location, size, and color of shapes.  

Timeline Motion Tween in Flash

Flash can create two types of tweened animation using timeline: Motion Tween & Shape Tween Creation of Motion/Shape tween using timeline is the basics of Flash. Motion tween is nothing but tweening a Symbol's movement from one position to another. To implement Motion Tween all that you have to do is, provide Flash with Symbol's initial position and the end position. Rest is taken

Creating a Typographic Wallpaper

After writing my previous tutorial here about Creating a Zune in Photoshop, several viewers asked if I’d share how I created the wallpaper graphic. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make something similar, and it’s quite easy!

Ajax with images and stylesheets

This should be filed under the quirky category :) Julien Lamarre has demonstrated doing Ajax-style callbacks not using XHR. Nor iframes. Nor Java. Nor Flash. He implemented it with images and CSS. Ajax using an image The client to server connection works by sending a request to the server using a dynamically created image with some parameters added to its “.src” property. The server’s respon

CSS Button

The HTML:[code] <span class="cssbutton"><span class="buttonleft">css</span> <span class="buttonright">button</span></span> [/code] The CSS:[code] .cssbutton { background: #fff; padding: 1px; font-family: Geneva, Vera, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; fo

Pure CSS Popups 2

Now that we've seen pure CSS popups causing text to appear and disappear, it follows that we could cause other elements to do the same... like images, maybe? Maybe. Hands-on: What to Do Any browser that does a good job of supporting positioning will get some of the stuff I did here correct, so continuing onward is probably worth it. The basic drill is this: mouse over the links on the left side of the page.

Styling hr with CSS

Introduction Even though it's sometimes recommended to replace the element with cascading stylesheets only using horizontal borders of other elements, I prefer as a section divider. This makes a web page more readable even in older browsers that receive only pure HTML with no style sheet.  On the other hand, simple, unstyled does not look good in richly styled documents. That's why I tried to find a couple of cross-browser com

Adding a CSS StyleSheet to your RSS Feed

It's pretty easy to add a CSS stylesheet to your RSS feeds. I created one in about 10 minutes for my RSS feed. You can do a lot more with an XSL stylesheet (turn links into clickable links, etc), but CSS can make your feed look much less scary for the non-technical crowd. And the good news is you probably already know CSS, so setting one up is trivial... To start you need to add a xml-stylesheet tag to your RSS feed:

CSS Design: Going to Print

by Eric MeyerYou’ve seen them before: links that say “click here for printer-friendly version” or words to that effect. Every time you follow one of those links, you load a separate document that presents exactly the same information with a different layout, and probably different markup. That means somebody (or a script) had to take the original document and convert it to a stripped-down version that’s more suitable for print output. Maybe t

10 Quick Tips for an Easier CSS Life

As with most things, a logical and structured approach is the best way to go. Therefore I have put together 10 quick tips (in no special order) to help make your CSS coding as pain-free as possible.   1. Keep it Simple This may sound obvious but if you find yourself using complicated coding to achieve your design then you should think again about whether the feature you need is really necessary or if you're just thinking about your design and