Learn Workflow

Optimize your development workflow with tools and techniques for more efficient project management, version control, collaboration, and automation.

All Workflow tutorials:

  1. Quick Tip: Reduce your SWF’s Filesize with Flash Optimizer

    Quick Tip: Reduce your SWF’s Filesize with Flash Optimizer

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Loading time is something that all Flash developers and designers must be aware of; a slow loading application could result in the user leaving the site and...

  2. Protect Your Flash Files From Decompilers by Using Encryption

    Protect Your Flash Files From Decompilers by Using Encryption

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in February,...

  3. Beginner’s Guide to FlashDevelop – Basix

    Beginner’s Guide to FlashDevelop – Basix

    Tutorial Beginner

    Two common misconceptions about Flash Professional: first, you have to buy it in order to make Flash apps and games; second, it's a decent tool for writing...

  4. 10 Awesome Uses for Automator Explained

    10 Awesome Uses for Automator Explained

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This post aims to give you a quick look into the potential of Automator by creating some very simple and actually quite handy workflow applications of your...

  5. Understanding the PureMVC Open Source Framework

    Understanding the PureMVC Open Source Framework

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in May, 2009. ...

  6. From PSD to HTML: Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step

    From PSD to HTML: Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. Today I'm going to take you through my entire...

  7. Integrating Adobe Flash with Other CS5 Applications - Basix

    Integrating Adobe Flash with Other CS5 Applications - Basix

    Tutorial Beginner

    Since the early release of the Adobe Creative Suite, integration between its products has been one of the key features. After Adobe's merger with Macromedia,...

  8. Tailor Your Flash Workspace by Creating Custom Panels

    Tailor Your Flash Workspace by Creating Custom Panels

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In my last tut: Create New Features for Flash with JSFL we created new commands for Flash. Now we're going to take things further by creating entirely new...

  9. Create New Features for Flash with JSFL

    Create New Features for Flash with JSFL

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this introduction to the JavaScript for Flash (JSFL) scripting language, you'll learn how to automate repetitive tasks and add new commands to the Flash...

  10. The Comprehensive Guide to Preloading a Single SWF File

    The Comprehensive Guide to Preloading a Single SWF File

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial we'll create a SWF that preloads itself, meaning that the preloader and the content is in the same file. We'll go over how to do things the...

  11. R.I.P. .fla

    R.I.P. .fla

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Just before Adobe announced that there was to be no Flash CS5 Public Beta, Lee Brimelow, a Flash Platform Evangelist at Adobe, released a Sneak Peek of Flash...

  12. Animate an Acrobatic Spy Using the Flash Timeline

    Animate an Acrobatic Spy Using the Flash Timeline

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The key to animation, like many things, is a logical approach and good workflow. In this tut, Hasier takes you through planning, sketching and refining your...