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Text Editing

1. XML Flash. How to deal with long text
2. HTML. How to change text style.
3. XML Flash. How to embed Chinese characters
4. How to create a masked text
5. How to create a dynamic text field
6. How to break text apart in flash
7. How to edit text in flash
8. How to make text selectable
9. How to edit text in SWiSH Max2
10. How to add special characters
11. How to edit text
12. How to edit a text with effect
13. Changing text in Flash
14. Changing text in Adobe Photoshop
15. How to manage fonts in Flash
16. How to find and edit any text in any flash file
17. How to edit the company name
18. How to add a text area
19. Xml Flash. How to change a font style
20. Xml Flash. How to edit text

Layout Customization

1. XML Flash AS3. How to add facebook icon button
2. XML Flash. How to change the masked logo
3. HTML Based. How to change columns width
4. HTML. How to change Google Map location
5. HTML Based. How to remove animated header or replace with static one
6. How to choose a background color
7. How to use cufon feature

Working with Editor

1. How to save for web
2. How to embed video into HTML page
3. How to embed flash movie into HTML page (flashObject)
4. How to go back to the main scene in flash
5. How to go back to a specific place in a movie
6. Flash. How to access elements using the library
7. How to duplicate and swap objects
8. SWiSH Wizard Overview
9. Saving and version control
10. Opening an FLA file
11. Publishing Your Flash Movie
12. What is an SWF file
13. Element appears in .FLA movie but not in published .SWF
14. Exporting the SWF file
15. Changing text font and color in HTML editor
16. Adding background sound
17. Opening an HTML file
18. Setting links in HTML editor
19. Adding images using HTML editor
20. How do I link to an Adobe PDF document

Working with Scrolls

1. XML Flash. Extend scroll area.
2. XML Flash. How to add scrolling area
3. Flash/XML Flash. How to create a scroll using AS3
4. How to create a scroll
5. How to change scroll speed in flash
6. How to create a scrolling bar
7. How to edit a scroll
8. Using the ScrollPane
9. How to replicate a text area with a scroll bar based

Working with Pop-Up windows

1. Flash. How to create a new pop-up window
2. How to change a pop up position
3. Flash. How to manage popups
4. How to add new “read more” page
5. Using Java script to open new windows with a fixed size
6. How to relocate a pop-up window
7. XML Flash. How to create a new pop-up window
8. How to resize pop-up windows

Installation Tutorials

1. How to upload a template to the server

Images Editing

1. Flash. How to edit banners
2. XML Flash. Image Links
3. Xml Flash. How to edit images
4. Photoshop. How to use bring to front feature
5. Flash. How to replace text logo with image
6. How do I resize the images loaded in a flash movie
7. How to swap the logo for rollover button
8. How to change images
9. How to resize images
10. How to change images in SWiSH Max2
11. Changing images in Flash
12. How to make images display randomly
13. Flash. Exporting images from fla file
14. Changing Images
15. Removing watermarks from logo templates
16. Replacing the “dummy” logo with another one
17. How to manage images in Flash
18. Changing images in Adobe Photoshop

Working with Animation

1. Skipping flash header animation on certain pages
2. How to change the speed in flash
3. How to skip flash header animation
4. How to make a spinning logo
5. How to skip a flash movie
6. How to skip a flash movie (alternative)
7. How to skip header animation
8. Skipping the animation_header(SharedObject)

Working with Forms

1. XML Flash. How to activate contact form
2. Flash. How to add a new contact form field
3. Adding fields to the HTML contact form
4. How to activate HTML contact form in the template
5. How to create a combobox
6. How to make a contact form work (up to template #13000)
7. How to create a contact form
8. How to work with combobox
9. How to create a contact form
10. How to create a contact form in HTML
11. How to create an ASP contact form in HTML
12. How to enable and edit a contact form (from template #17000)
13. Getting Started
14. formStructure.xml file
15. formConfiguration.xml file

Working with Video

1. Flash. How to change the color of the embedded FLV movie
2. XML Flash. How to embed YouTube video into the template
3. How to embed FLV video into HTML page
4. How to embed YouTube video
5. How to embed video in Flash template (AS 2.0)
6. How to import video by means of rendered images

Working with Sound

1. How to change music duration
2. Flash. AS3. How to set sound OFF by default Flash.
3. Flash. How to export sound from the FLA file
4. XML Flash. How to change music via the timeline
5. XML Flash. How to change sound
6. How to add new music samples in the Flash playlist
7. Flash. How to work with sound icons
8. SwishMax. How to change sound
9. How to change music

Other tutorials

1. How to set up current time and date
2. How can I add a flash page to Favorites
3. IE6 SP2 security settings
4. SWF Metadata in Macromedia Flash 8
5. How to disable ActiveX warning in IE6/7
6. Current time and date in Flash
7. How to add and modify metadata in a Flash template

Working with Gallery

1. XML Flash. How to extend gallery
2. How to create an Image Gallery in Flash (AS2)
3. How to make a new gallery and link images
4. How to create a gallery and link it to the main scene
5. How to extend a slideshow
6. How to extend a slideshow in SWiSH Max2
7. How to activate empty thumbs in a gallery
8. How to add more images to a gallery
9. How to expand a gallery (scrolling bar)

Languages and Localization

1. How to add Arabic text
2. How to add Hebrew text

Advanced Tutorials

1. XML Flash. How to enable RTL support
2. How to work with Cufon generated fonts (Advanced)
3. How to use the Google Web Fonts API
4. CSS. Grid 960 system
5. How to create rounded corner effect

Working with Links

1. XML Flash. How to create inner pages links
2. Flash. How to assign an external link to a menu button
3. XML Flash. How to create button and link to URL (AS3)
4. XML Flash. Assign external link to menu item (AS 2.0)
5. How to assign link to text
6. How to assign link to image
7. XML Flash. Create button & assign link (AS 3.0)
8. How to redirect the flash intro to the website
9. How to link a flash intro to the main site
10. How to assign links
11. How to create text and mailto links
12. How to open a link in a new browser tab
13. How to remove a link and a hand cursor
14. Assigning links in Flash
15. How do I link a button to an Adobe PDF document
16. SwishMax. Assigning Links
17. How to create a button and assign a link to it
18. How to assign a link to an image
19. XML Flash. How to assign a link to text

Colors Management

1. XML Flash. How to edit background color
2. XML Flash How to modify colors
3. How to change colors

Working with Boxes

1. Making the width size of the HTML template fill up to 100%

Website Styling

1. How do I remove the underlines from links
2. How to add multiple link styles on the same page

Basic Tutorials

1. Flash. How to embed fonts in Adobe Flash CS5
2. How to install font from Google web-fonts to your system
3. CSS. Positioning elements
4. HTML/CSS. Styling active button condition
5. HTML. How to edit text
6. CSS. Understanding border, margin and padding properties
7. HTML 5 Tags Description
8. How to use Google WebFonts
9. How to edit XML Flash templates
10. Installing Adobe Type (PFM/PFB) fonts
11. Installing TrueType (TTF) fonts
12. Using browser’s forward & backward buttons in a flash site
13. Editing CSS
14. What is CSS?
15. Using Eastern Fonts in templates
16. Installing Fonts in Mac OS 8, 9 or OS X Classic
17. Installing Fonts in Mac OS X
18. Installing Fonts

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

1. Missing fonts from the PSD file
2. Fireworks MX and Photoshop compatibility
3. Do I need to slice the template PSD files myself?
4. Are the layers flattened and locked in .psd files?

Working with Pages

1. Dynamic Swish. New page and menu item
2. Xml Flash. Remove page and menu item
3. XML Flash. Change pages order (AS3)
4. Xml Flash. How to add a ‘readmore’ button and page (AS3)
5. How to change the order of pages in a flash site
6. How to add more pages
7. How to find pages in any .FLA file

Colors Management

1. HTML/CSS. How to change background color
2. CSS. Background property
3. CSS. How to change colors
4. How to modify colors of Shape layers
5. How to modify main colors in PSD
6. Changing image colors in Adobe Photoshop

Working with Menus

1. XML Flash. How to reposition menu buttons

Languages and Localization

1. How to add Swedish language

Pages Management

1. HTML. How to create sub-pages
2. XML Flash. How to change scroll speed
3. XML Flash. How to add read more page (AS 2.0)
4. XML Flash. Add new page and menu item (AS2)
5. Dynamic Swish 3.0. How to add new ReadMore page and button
6. XML Flash. How to add new page and menu item (AS 3.0)
7. XML Flash. How to change pages order (AS3)
8. How to change pages order in Xml Flash template
9. How to add a content page
10. How to add new read more page

Managing website content

1. Flash. How to create mailto link
2. XML Flash. General Editing (Remove text, images, links, add text areas)
3. XML Flash. How to work with Google Map

Working with Menus

1. Swish Wizard. How to add new menu
2. HTML Based. How to edit main menu
3. HTML/CSS. How to create vertical and horizontal menu
4. HTML. How to create a menu

Uploading

1. Missing images after publishing
2. How to upload files to a server
3. How to update the template booklet.

Extracting Files

1. Extract archived files (MAC OS)
2. Extract archived files (Windows OS)
3. How to unzip a template (Windows OS)
4. How to unzip a template (MAC OS)
5. Downloading and Installing WinZip

Downloading

1. How to download a template

Uploading

1. How to upload files to a server

Database Management

1. phpMyAdmin. How to import sample data dump file phpMyAdmin
2. Checking CMS database
3. How to create a database

Troubleshooter

1. JS/Flash Animated. Contact form and PHP4
2. Photoshop Troubleshooter. I can not see slices
3. Troubleshooter. Cufon fonts. Missing text in IE9
4. Error 503
5. Error 500 Internal Server Error
6. Error 404 Not Found.
7. Flash. “Unexpected file format” error
8. Flash site getting stuck on loading
9. Flash Troubleshooter. How to center flash content