In two years it’ll cost me at least $2500! but it’s still way better than my last phone.

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Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility
“It’s not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It’s also not uncommon to hear, “that’s just how they work.” Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it’s become urban legend. With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X (previously it was supported only for Windows). In the process, this also gave developers a way to completely hide Flash from older screen readers and the issues they can have with it. In fact, when Flash is purely used as eye candy, it’s wise to remove it from the flow of the screen reader’s page so that they don’t have to listen to Flash without a purpose.” - Stephanie Sullivan

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CSS Resources ( in progress )!

LAYOUT

• Layout Gala
• CSS Templates

CODE GENORATORS

• Typetester - Compare Screen Type
• CSS Box Model Calculator

RESOURCES

• Netdiver Toolbox

PORTALS

• CSS Beauty - news, jobs, community

Getting started with Ajax as my new goal in life. AJAX is the new new, and is short for “Advanced Javascripting and XML” or “Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML. Essentially it’s DHTML with the xmlhttprequest object thrown in.
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Loading SWFs / Images

• Movie & Image Preloader Woes
• Generic Preloader less than 1k
• Reusable Preloader Using MovieClipLoader
• Tween/AS Preloader
• Including external JPGs (or SWFs) in a Flash movie
• MovieClipLoader.loadClip()
• MovieClipLoader
• Flash MX 2004 introduces MovieClipLoader
• Flash’s New MovieClipLoader Class
• MovieClipLoader Class - Adobe
• zeh.loading.ImageLoader (AS2) - .as

• QueueLoader AS3 rev 7 + Garbage Collection + SoundManager - Donovan
• Sequential Image Loading 2.0 - with php
• Sequential Image Loading
• QueueLoader Class
• LoadQue Class - flash guru
• LoadQue Class - prototype
• LoadQue Class v1.5? - prototype
• QLod-LoaderClass - documentation
• zeh.loading.LoadingQueue (AS2) - .as
• PreloadAssetManager - An Intelligent Preloading Queue

Loading Images

• Image Cache
• Smooth loaded images by default
• Dynamically loading bitmaps with smoothing in Flash Player 8

Loading CSS

• CSS in Flash MX 2004
• Adobe Live Docs
• Using CSS Styles

Loading XML

• Loading XML Into Flash
• BadassXML
• Overcoming XML.onLoad with the XMLLoader class
• XML Classes
• Load XML files with special chars

Loading in AS 3.0

• Load Systems for Actionscript 3
• Actionscript 3 (my sad standards, part 1) Loading
• Using the URLLoader and URLVariables classes
• More about preloading in Flash CS3

MovieClip._lockroot

• Adobe Live Docs

LoadVars

• How to use the LoadVars Class

URL Encoding

• URL Encoding: Reading special characters from a text file
• Generic Object from URL query string

HTML escape sequences

• Converting HTML escape sequences in a string - Darron Schall
• Escape Sequences

Research via the web - the value of experience
I can’t say it’s all perfect, but chances are I’ve received most of my info from blogs/boards/forums. I bought a few books here and there, but nothing beats proven experience. Here are a few sites that made me jump on the blog-wagon

• Josh Spear
• Brand Spanking New
• Andre Michelle
• Quasimondo
• Reflektions
• Createage
• Processing
• Infosthetics
• Gizmodo
• Trends