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Flash General Resources

• Macromedia's Flash Page
  Flash Homepage
• Flash Kit
  Flash Developer Resources
• Theory 7
  All-Flash web site

Flash Tutorials

• Flash MX Tutorials
  Macromedia Flash MX tutorials
• Becoming a Flash 5 Master
  Michael Kay's Tutorial

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Flash Usability

• Flash Usability Papers & Articles
  Macromedia compilation
• Flash Usability
  Chris MacGregor white paper
• Introduction to Flash Usability
  Jeremy Riga's guidelines
• Flash 99% Good
  Flash Usability: First Aid Manual
• User-Friendly Flash
  Chris MacGregor site
• Macromedia Flash: A New Hope for Web Apps
  Christine Perfetti & Jared Spool
• Skip Intro
  Dark Side of Flash!

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• Flash: 99% Bad
  Jakob Nielsen's opening salvo against Flash (2000)
• Tipping Jakob's Ladder
  Julie Meloni responds to Jakob Nielsen
• Criticism of Flash
  Stefanie Olsen surveys the criticism
• Flash Usability
  Design guidelines by Meryl K. Evans
• Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web
  Flash design guidelines by Jakob Nielsen
• Repent from Flash Sins
  Design guidelines by Meryl K. Evans

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• Create a Usable Flash Site
  Design guidelines by Aaron West
• Flash vs. HTML: A Usability Test
  Comparing HTML and Flash by Dack Ragus
• Interface Usability
  GUI design guidelines by Merien Q. Kunst
• Flash Usability
  Guidelines by Tom Wheeler
• Flash Usability Challenge
  Design a usable Flash site: challenge. By John Rhodes - Webword.com.
• Response to the Flash Usability Challenge
  By Jason Kottke
• Flash Usability: 25 Tips for Better Websites
  By Keran McKenzie & David Emberton

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Flash Accessibility

• Flash News Flash: It's Accessible
  Flash captioning tool opens up whole new audience. By Lisa Delgado.
• Flash Access
  Accessibility issues in-depth by Joe Clark.
• Making Flash Accessible
  By Jim Heid
• Consider It Before You Build It
  Designing for the Color Blind by Samuel Granato

Flash Books

• Davis, Joshua. (2002). Flash to the Core. New Riders. ISBN: 0735712883.

• Franklin, Derek & Jobe Makar. (2002). Macromedia Flash MX ActionScripting: Advanced Training from the Source. Macromedia Press. ISBN: 0201770229.

• Kaye, Jonathan & David Castillo. (2002). Flash MX for Interactive Simulation. OnWord Press. ISBN: 1401812910.

• Kinkoph, Sherry & Mike Wooldridge. (2002). Master Visually Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX. Visual. ISBN: 0764536966.

• MacGregor, Chris, et. al. (2002) The Flash Usability Guide: Interacting with Flash MX. Friends of Ed. ISBN: 190345025X.

• Mohler, James L. (2002). Flash MX: Graphics, Animation & Interactivity. Delmar Publishers ISBN: 0766842061.

• Mohler, James L. & Nishant Kothary (Eds.). (2002). Flash MX: Advanced ActionScript. Delmar Learning. ISBN: 0766829103.

• Moock, Colin. (2002). ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN: 059600396X.

• Pizzi, Matthew, et. al. (2002). Macromedia Flash MX Unleashed. Sams. ISBN: 0672324016.

• Reinhardt, Robert. (2002). Flash MX Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0764536567.

• Sahlin, Doug. (2002). Macromedia Flash MX Virtual Classroom. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0072223987.

• Watrall, Ethan & Norbert Herber. (2002). Flash MX Savvy. Sybex
  ISBN: 0782141080.

• Weil, Kymberlee & Lynda Weinman. (2002). Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On-Training. Peachpit Press. ISBN: 0321112725.

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