Learning Flash - the hard way.

So if you've read my very infrequently updated site in the past little while you may remember I bought the complete Macromedia Studio. I'm designing a brand new site right now for a client so I'm getting lots of practice. Dreamweaver is a wonderful program that I am very familiar with. Fireworks remains my guilty (yet oh so nerdy) pleasure. Flash? Forget about it. Macromedia decided not to include any printed materials with Studio (causing me to actually phone the company to make sure they weren't just missing from my box - embarrassing, yes). This means I am supposed to learn Flash with nothing but online help and an insanely comprehensive search function. The other day I tried to find information on "image slide show" and got about fifty possible answers. Even after repeated tries I could not find just one "do this you moron" kind of approach.

It's time to face facts. Although I am pretty much self taught and proficient with html, Dreamweaver, JavaScript and the like, Flash is simply too complicated for me little brain. Will I give up? Heck no. I did not go into debt to buy a beautiful program like that to have it sit on my desktop and make me feel dumb. I think I need to read (this hurts) a complete guide to Flash and complete the tutorials. I'll probably be really proud of myself when I can get the red ball to bounce across the blue screen.

I will also be updating this site soon. New projects have been started and old ones completed. I will fill you in later. Until then, if you are in Toronto enjoy this beautiful perfect fall season. It was 16 degrees today and it's November!