A few years ago, I worked as a sales executive for an Internet service provider. One of the first things suggested to me was to watch Learn To Subnet: A Free Lecture-based Educational Course on IP Addressing and Subnetting.

You might think that this is the last thing you need to learn, so why watch it? Trust me, you will be pretty impressed with yourself when you understand, and can explain, how binary math is used to calculate IP addresses and how subnetting works. Try it. you will be enlightened!

This is extremely useful to understand. It was one of the first bits of complex code I wrote. Here is the scenario:

When a menu button is pressed, you want the current screen to animate out first before loading the next screen. The problem is, once the current screen has animated out, how does Flash know which screen to load? Well, here’s the solution.

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This is a very simple file. It will show you how to dynamically add a Movie Clip from the library at runtime and then remove it from the stage when a button is pressed.

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Here are some great free font websites:

Webpage Publicity Agency – 6500 free fonts
Acid Fonts – Large collection of free fonts
org.opn.src – Open source pixel and led fonts for flash
Fonts for Flash - Pixel Fonts and Super Pixel Fonts for Flash

So you want to start your own blog, but have no clue how to install and set one up. Luc Melgar provides a fantastic, step-by-step tutorial on how to install WordPress using WampServer on your PC. A good place to start is on your local machine and when you are comfortable with the admin interface, changing themes and adding pages and posts, you can get it installed on your web server.

Most website hosting companies provide user control panels such as cPanel and phpMyAdmin. Learn how to install your blog using these control panels here.

GUIStuff.com offers a variety of resources for web developers, including a complete CSS 2.1 reference and a collection of CSS and JavaScript tutorials. They also provide a collection of free Pre-Designed Web Templates in the following formats:
-Layered Photoshop file
-TIFF source file
-Sliced images within HTML

I actually did this a while ago, but think it is a very useful tip.

I used to be quite frustrated about the fact that I could only download 2 files at any given time with Internet Explorer (IE). I found this great article at the Small Business Computing website, and was able to increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads to 10. What a pleasure!

I did this on a Windows XP machine. The registry changes might differ on older or newer Microsoft operating systems.

This file goes to a random frame on your Movie Clip’s timeline every specified number of seconds. This is useful with slideshows displaying random images or advertising banners displaying random ads.

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This is a useful file which displays falling objects. The number and type of object, speed, rotation and alpha can all be adjusted. The type of motion can also be adjusted to display objects falling straight down or in a snow-like motion. It can also be set to react to the mouse’s movement.

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I have found this very useful. This will show you how to run your Flash file at 100% of the browser window’s size. If you resize the browser window, the content of the Flash file will always remain at its original scale and centered in the window.

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