More on preloading your Flash movie. Includes a section on displaying a download progress bar.

The Art of Flash 5 Preloading

Ohhhhh, this looks like fun:

WebmasterBase - Animation in Dreamweaver

It's a Flash kind of day

You can never have too many tutorials on how to use Flash 5.0:

WebmasterBase - Flash 101 - Part 1: The Hammer and The Chisel

I've seen sites that have a cute little "Please Wait ..." animation that plays while the main Flash presentation loads, and I've always wondered "how'd they do that?" Well, here's a tutorial on just that.

WebmasterBase - Optimize Preloading with Flash 5

Yum, cookies!

They're everywhere. They're handy to have if you need to authenticate your users or track site usage. Here's a good primer on using cookies with CGI/Perl:

Cookies in Perl - Builder.com

Sniffing out browsers

Do want to use a spiffy JavaScript trick, but it only works in specific browsers? You can add this to your script to check out what version your reader is using before hand.

Internal Browser Test

Tables vs. CSS

I recently purchased a copy of Dreamweaver. Nice product, but it relies almost entirely on HTML tables for layout. Not that there is anything wrong with tables, but the better way to control your page layout is with a Cascading Style Sheet (well, I'll admit, this is still a point of debate within certain circles).

So, for those willing to learn how, let's take a little journey down the CSS path:

WDVL: Toss out your Tables! CSS is the scene!

How do they do that?

Ever see those smooth page layouts with the nice rounded corners? If you're like me, you thought to yourself "How'd they do that?" Well, ponder no longer because this article gives you all the details:

WebmasterBase - The Trick to Rounded Corner Tables