Tag Archives: interactive

CSS3 Tool, CSS3Please

With all the buzz about new improvements in CSS3 I’ve been meaning to write about it, but… I couldn’t find any excuses when I stumbled on Paul Irish’s new css3please.com: a cross-browser css3 rule generator. Just had to do a quick post to spread the word. It’s great for cross-browser testing as well as generating the [...]
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Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0

I’ve written a tutorial which is published over at flash.tutsplus. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer and covers xml parsing, loading and resizing external images, and creating intuitive and responsive scrolling!
So check out the Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0 [...]
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Stomper999

Interactive Design project for StomperNet’s tease of the announced reveal on 09/09/09 at 09:09:09! “Online Marketing Changes Forever!” Wanted it to be unexpected, and I think we hit it! Check it out live at stomper999.com! Details: For this project I used flash, html, css and javascript. Tweener for the fading effects. Found a nice stock flash from flashDen for [...]
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Forthcoming Actionscript Image Scroller Tutorial

Here is a preview of a file I’m writing a tutorial for. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it deals with many normal tasks and will show my process a bit. This tutorial will show how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer. It will cover xml loading & parsing, loading & resizing external images to fit [...]
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StomperNet FormulaFIVE Launch Web Design

StomperNet relaunched the popular FormaulFIVE and I was responsible for the design of the landing pages. Here are screenshots from the launch, FormulaFIVE was teased with a couple video trailers and even packaged with some bonus videos called the Cash Booster series. Go to stomperf5.com to view the page.
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Actionscript Drag & Drop Tutorial | Vertical and Horizontal Flash Sliders

A specific use of drag and drop which is a bit more complicated than your average drag & drop needs is a slider. You can use components, but I usually prefer using my own graphics and code, partly because the components tend to bloat the filesize of the swf and partly because that’s just [...]
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Flash Video Issue: loadbar (size) vs playbar (time) usability

This deals with some issues I’m having with the seekbar of a player. The seekbar is the area that displays the video time as a bar that shows your current position/percentage of the video, it can also display the loaded portion of the video among other things as well. Including the video players I’ve made, [...]
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Flash Drag and Drop Tutorial | startDrag Actionscript

I find that Drag and Drop is the most intuitive form of user interaction (at least using a mouse). Actionscript has some of this functionality built in, with the interactive functions startDrag and stopDrag, these can help make our coding pretty easy. If you are transitioning from as2, the code was incredibly simple: Actionscript2 123456on (press) {   [...]
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