By Ray VillalobosTuesday, January 18, 2011An html5 reset is a template that let's you start off your projects by clearing out inconsistent styles in browsers and help you create a base structure for your html5 documents. In this video, I teach you my customizations to the popular html5reset templ
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, January 18, 2011HTML tags form the basis of all webpages. In this lesson you'll learn how to create tags and some of the different types of tags available to you.
By Ray VillalobosWednesday, January 12, 2011A staging environment allows you to quickly test sites without launching them into a live server. It also allows you to preview sites on mobile or other devices on the same server.
By Ray VillalobosSunday, January 09, 2011In order to manage files on your server you need to learn about the File Transfer Protocol(FTP). In this video, I'll teach you how to set up an FTP application to upload, download, edit and delete files on your server.
By Ray VillalobosSunday, January 09, 2011Using 1 and 1's control panel, it's extremely easy to create password protected directories. This is a great tool to be able to create folders that require authentication and that only some people will be able to see provided they know the username and pa
By Ray VillalobosSaturday, April 03, 2010Learn how to prepare and record a podcast in Garage Band and how to create an introduction with musical samples.
By Ray VillalobosThursday, March 11, 2010Here's my current standard editing technique. My approach is to edit in a way that can totally be undone at any point in time.
By Ray VillalobosThursday, March 11, 2010Learn to create actions in Photoshop that can save you loads of time. Then learn how you can apply those actions to entire folders.
By Ray VillalobosSaturday, March 06, 2010Learn the basics of using coda, then learn to code HTML tables, and then understand how forms work. Also learn how to create PayPal buttons.
By Ray VillalobosMonday, March 01, 2010Learn to use an FTP program like Transmit to help you upload files to your site. Learn to access the files through the web.
By Ray VillalobosSunday, January 31, 2010Learn to use Panic's Transmit FTP client to upload/download files and link it to a text editor to update your sites.
By Ray VillalobosMonday, November 30, 2009On the recent promotional flash graphic for my homepage, I created an animation that showcases how encapsulation works in a real project. It's an important technique that's worth a second look.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, November 03, 2009You can use the encapsulation technique to allow for simpler timelines and control encapsulated timelines through ActionScript.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, November 03, 2009You can make a symbol look like it plays forever by using a trick through a technique called encapsulation. Ray shows you how.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, November 03, 2009Learn to use encapsulation to create sequences of movements that can be animated on the timeline to create complex animations.
By Ray VillalobosSunday, October 25, 2009Learning to program buttons in flash can be challenging. This tutorial shows you to work with buttons to control timelines in Adobe Flash CS4
By Ray VillalobosWednesday, October 14, 2009Flash's New Motion Editor dramatically changes the way one approaches motion graphics. This lesson introduces you to this new tool.
By Ray VillalobosWednesday, October 14, 2009Two the key principles of Animation are anticipation, which is what happens before an animation and follow through, which happens afterwards. This article discusses how to achieve that with Adobe Flash CS4
By Ray VillalobosWednesday, October 14, 2009Adobe's new 3D tools provide a quick and easy way to create 3D animated content. This screencast explores the new tools.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, October 06, 2009On part 1 of a 6 part series of lessons on buttons in Flash CS4, Ray discusses creating buttons and the four frames in button timelines.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, October 06, 2009In part 2, Ray talks about creating buttons with multiple actionable areas in Flash CS4 and how to create extremely useful invisible buttons
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, October 06, 2009In Part 4, create an animated button in a more realistic project and learn to use masking to reveal part of an animation with basic easing
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, October 06, 2009Part 5 shows you how to program your button with ActionScript 3.0 so that it clicks to different parts of your timeline in Flash CS4.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, October 06, 2009Ray shows you how to add sounds to any Flash project, the differences between the sound types and how to put sounds in buttons.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, September 22, 2009In part 2 of the Flash CS4 button series, learn to create a slideshow in Flash CS4 with text filters and alpha color effects.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, September 08, 2009This screencast explores the basics of working with Adobe Flash CS4 including drawing and creating basic animations.
By Ray VillalobosTuesday, September 08, 2009This screencast teaches you how to import graphics from Adobe Photoshop and the process for animating them inside Adobe Flash CS4
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