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Flash is a solution for producing high impact web sites, alive with animations, sounds, innovative interfaces and amazing graphics.
Flash integrates with vector art, mp3 audio, sound and images to produce impressive web sites.
Get the full lowdown, with links to the trial 30 day downloads here!
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| » What is Flash Kit? |
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Flash Kit is the world's largest Flash resource site. What on earth does that mean?, you ask.
Well, it is a one stop raw materials centre for flash creations, containing thousands of open source
movies, online tutorials,
help forums, sound effects and loops,
and fonts.
As if that wasn't amazing enough in itself,
Flash Kit is completely free! :)
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| » First things First - Navigating the Site |
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The easiest way to navigate around Flash Kit is to use the navigation bar at the top of your screen.
It has links to all the major areas of Flash Kit, and these areas have also been conveniently divided into
subcategories for you. If you get stuck, there is a Search Site option in the top right
hand corner of the home page. Use it, as it's a great way to find what you want FAST!
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| » Secondly...Join up! |
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We recommend joining the Flash Kit community by going to the board
and registering as a member. Membership is free and entitles you to read and post to the numerous message boards Flash
Kit has to offer. Ranging from the Newbies
help section, to the casual and highly humorous
Coffee Lounge, the message boards are an excellent way of getting to know the people on Flash Kit, and to learn!
We also have a weekly Newsletter so you don't miss out!
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| » Third is the one with the hairy chest.. Flash me! |
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If you haven�t already � start Flashing!! The online tutorials guide you through all the basic steps of learning
to use Flash, and if you have a problem, the help forums aren�t too far away.
The Movies section contains many open
source movies, which can be downloaded, so you can see how other people have made their fantastic flash creations.
To liven up your Flash �piece de resistance�, the Flash Kit team have spent weeks scouring the internet for cool
sound effects, fonts and sound loops. Just like most of Flash Kit, these are free to download!!
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| » Lights, Camera, Action. Open Source Movies |
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Movies are the most popular feature of Flash Kit. This section
contains thousands of open-source movies - created by both flash masters and normal people like you and me.
Open source . . . huh? Well, that means that not only can you download the movie, but the source file as well.
This enables you to peer somewhat intrusively into how each movie was created, and repeat the effect in your own movie.
The movies have been broken up into categories ( e.g. 3D, Effects, Games, Animation, Scripting, Sound etc), and these
categories have been subdivided (e.g. Effects has sub categories Eye Candy, Special Effects, Text Effects, Masking, etc.).
Each individual movie has a preview page with details such as other people�s opinions on the movie, and the overall
rating of the movie.
You can post your own comments, and upload your own variations as well, so it is a continually growing resource!
If you want to submit a movie it's a great way to get exposure, and it helps us grow as well!!
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| » Alright class, Stop, Look and Listen! Online Tutorials |
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Another contender for Flash Kit�s popularity award is the
Tutorials section. Here, flash gurus from Flash Kit and around the world have written step-by-step guides to creating
whiz-bang flash effects. As with all of Flash Kit, we have endeavour to help you by dividing Tutorials into sections:
Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Special Effects, Action Script - the list goes on. Each tutorial features a brief
description, downloadable file, hit counter, user opinions and ratings. Learning at school was never this fun,
plus there are no bullies to take your lunch money at Flash Kit!
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| » Help - I�ve fallen down and can�t get up! Our message boards! |
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At Flash Kit, we take the famous Beatles� lyrics �Help, I need somebody! Help, not just anybody!� very, very seriously.
The Help section of the message boards is the port of
call for Flashers caught in a storm of trouble. With eleven different help forums (Newbies, Flash 5, General Help,
Sounds and Music etc.) Flash Kit can serve as your online Flash counsellor! Our own Flash gurus, as well as flash experts
from around the world regularly drop by the help forums to assist you in all your Flashing needs.
We also host the official support forums for a large number of Flash related third party software makers, such as Swish, Swift 3d,
Swift Generator and more!
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| » The hills are alive with the Sound of Music. Sound FX. And Sound Loops. |
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Once again, Flash Kit has come to your Flashing rescue. Need that nifty �zoop� sound effect? Want that cool
drum�n�bass sound loop? Desire that ambient panpipe music? Walk right in, sit right down - Flash Kit has the lot,
with thousands of Sound Effects and hundreds of
Sound Loops, growing daily! Our team has trawled the net and
then put on light blue rubber gloves to sift through the results, collating a staggering amount of sounds for you to use in your
movies. And, you guessed it - we have divided them into categories, and sub-categories. How can you go wrong with names
such as Blips, Clicks, Clanks, Zoops, Zangs and Mayhem. It really doesn�t get any easier than this. Wait, hang on a
minute � yes it does! We have included a search option � now it�s even easier to find all the �bloops� you could ever want.
Powerful searching, and fast downloading realtime Flash previews make this a real winner, finding audio was never this easy!
Make sure you check out our loop Flashtrak versions as well - Flash Kit loops all have a downloadable version with a
real Flash Spectrum analyser, and it's real!!!
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| » Fontsy that! |
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The title says it all really, and by now you should have realised that the Flash Kit Team have spent a long time collecting
stuff just for your benefit � and that applies to Fonts as well.
In fact, well over 1000 are available to be downloaded. With the added option of myFK, our fonts section will make you say �Fontsy that!�.
Each font has a quick image preview, and a fully interactive Flash preview as well, you can preview the text you
want, in your desired font before you download it!
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| » I have too much blood in my coffee system . . . |
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The Coffee Lounge is where the cool Flashers
go to hang out. Laid back and lackadaisical are both words that apply to the people here, and if you want to get to
know Flashers from around the world the lounge is the ideal place. Flash Kit has over 500,000 members, and this is
growing daily.
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| » You have three messages . . . |
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Although the Coffee Lounge is a blast there are many other message
boards available to let you have your say. With topics
including Site Check, Competitions, Cool Sites and Design, the message boards are the best place to hang out,
catch up on the latest gossip and get and share some help.
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| » Personalize me! |
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myFK is a very
popular feature which enables members to save movies, links, tutorials, games, fonts and text effects into a single
location, and access them whenever you like! There is a lot of content on Flash Kit, and myFK is a quick way to view
what you want, when you want. To get started, just go to myFK.
Too easy!!
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That concludes your virtual tour of Flash Kit, we hope you enjoyed yourself, and have a better understanding of what its
all about! Catchya around!
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