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Flash & Dreamweaver Drop-down menus

Flash & Dreamweaver Drop-down menus

Here is a little simple video of a flash navigation I found using Actionscript 2:
I’ve been working with flash for a while, but it never gets easier. I think I know a lot and then I look online and “boom”, I see all these possible navigations for my site.  I get overwhelmed sometimes.  Should I know how to make every little one of them? I guess so.  The fun part of all this is trying to figure them out as if they were puzzles. You think:  “Well if I use this over here and this actionscript I could get this result, but I could also change it to something much simpler”.

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The I-pod portfolio viewer using picasa

The I-pod portfolio viewer using picasa

One of my tasks for my flash class was to create a website of my liking. Off course I took the opportunity to make a portfolio and make it usable for other venues. Well, the class was basic and the navigation options offered by the professor were, for lack of a better word, ugly.  The professor told me to buy a template (which can be a little pricey for your own use). Frustrated, I searched and searched for a solution and found that there was a wonderful way to get that i-pod sliding navigation and many other flash navigation templates using a free program I already owned, 

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Scroll bar on Dreamweaver

Scroll bar on Dreamweaver

Easy way to add a scroll bar to Dreamweaver using html.

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Photoshop bullets

Photoshop bullets

Wow, I was designing a website on photoshop and I just needed to add some bullet characters and I realized, I do not know where they are!!! I know on Dreamweaver and Illustrator, but are the special characters on Photoshop? Do not know. So I did what I always do and looked up on Google to see if anyone knew a keyboard shortcut. I found it and here it is:

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