In this tutorial, you will learn some rules for naming your variables as well as some basic syntax rules for ActionScript.

With this newest upgrade of Flash CS3 Professional, the Flash ActionScript scripting language has grown up into a full-fledged programming language. Let's start with the basics.

Flash has several nice filters such as Drop Shadow, Blur, Glow, Bevel, Gradient Glow, Gradient Bevel and Adjust Color. We will animate the Adjust Color filter to make a globe appear to change colors. The animation is a simple Motion Tween which can be applied to any movie clip.

In this tutorial, we will add a tooltip to an invisible button. Tooltips tell your site visitors the purpose of a button. Your button does not need to be an invisible button for you to add a tooltip.

In this tutorial, we will add an invisible button to our Flash website. Invisible buttons are easy to make in Flash because there are no visible characteristics to add to the button states. You need only to designate the clickable area for the button in the Hit frame of the button´s Timeline.

In this Flash CS3 tutorial, we will create a simple Motion Tween animation with a graphic that we will import as a Movie Clip. Because we want this animation to play continuously, we will place the Movie Clip on Frame 1 on the Timeline for our main movie.

To give our snowflake scene more realism, we will need each snowflake to be slightly different. In this tutorial, we will change some of the Color Styles properties for each of our snowflakes. The Color Styles properties that we will be changing are Brightness, Tint, Alpha and Advanced.

In this tutorial, we will create and edit a symbol and its instances working within the Flash Library and Properties Inspector.

Many readers have asked how to create links in Flash movies that will take your visitor to another website such as your eBay store. In most cases, this link will either be a button or a text link. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how to create a button link in your Flash movie.

Three of the most important features of Flash are Symbols, Instances and the Library. By using these three together, you can keep the size of your Flash file smaller and your movie will download more quickly.