How do you like my new Flash banner? It was created with Adobe Flash CS4, a great authoring tool for web animation, like this 468×60 pixel banner ad. Be careful with colors; the black text is kind of hard to read. Maybe white text would have been a better choice?

It’s always good to sketch out your ideas on paper first; that way you can work out the kinks in your design before you get too far into a project. That also helps with a different perspective, too.

flashexplained.com has some great tutorials on using Flash, mostly version CS3, but it all works in Adobe’s latest CS4 package.

Here’s some other great Flash sites:

georgeharrison.com/

www.eyewonder.com

terraincognita.com

www.adobe.com/flashplatform/

There’s also the ability to either embed or link to each video, just like on YouTube.