Close your technical books and open up your mind! School of Flash is now selling full-length Flash training classes. Our first course, released today, is called "Flash CS4: Step 1." This is a beginner level Flash course that will get you up to speed on the basics of Flash. In it, you will learn how to draw, animate, and build basic websites using Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.

This video course contains over 7 1/2 hours of Flash and ActionScript tutorials.

As a celebration for the grand opening of the School of Flash online store, I'm going to offer these videos for 50% OFF to the first 100 customers that purchase. To take advantage of this offer, when you get to the checkout page, click on the option to pay with PayPal, and you'll be redirected to a page where you can enter in your payment information along with a discount code. Use the following code to receive your discount: 01V5MEFM

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School of Flash will be entering an exciting new chapter in the very near future. In addition to the free Flash and ActionScript tutorials that are currently being offered on the blog, SchoolofFlash.com will also soon be offering comprehensive video training classes!

The first course will be entitled  "Flash CS4: Step 1."  This video course, which will be posted for sale within the next day or two, will be an introductory course to the Flash CS4 authoring environment. In it, you will learn the basics of how to draw, animate, and build websites using Flash.

So keep your eyes peeled, my Flash-loving friends, because once it goes up for sale, I'm going to offer this new "Flash CS4: Step 1" training course for 50% off to the first 100 customers!

To be one of the first ones to be notified when this course goes up for sale, be sure to sign up for our newsletter using the form in the right column! These videos will go fast, so you don't want to miss out on this introductory offer!

Sign up for the brand new SchoolOfFlash.com newsletter and receive a FREE one-hour video tutorial. This tutorial teaches you everything you need to know to get started with Flash, from drawing to animation to building simple websites.

Hopefully, you'll find the new School of Flash newsletter a useful (and sometimes entertaining) resource as you strive to learn Flash. In the newsletter, I'll let you know when we've added new tutorials, keep you updated with what's going on in the world of Flash, and showcase the websites of other amazing Flash designers.

NOTE: If you've entered your email address before in the small blue box that USED to be on the right-hand side of the page, then please be aware that this is DIFFERENT. The old blue box did not subscribe you to our newsletter, only to our RSS Feed.

Flash templates, HTML templates, WordPress themes, and much more are now available through School of Flash.

Don't have the time (or the expertise) to create your own website from scratch. Click here, or click on the "Templates" link in the main menu, to visit our new Templates section. Choose from thousands of professionally created website templates, including some AMAZING Flash templates.

Have you ever tried going through the purchase of your first house and the birth of your first child within the same month? If so, then you've probably discovered that's it's a very stressful, very time-consuming process. My wife is currently pregnant with our first child, and her due date is August 30th. On top of that, we're closing on our first home on August 1st.

Needless to say, I'm a little swamped at the moment.

So let me say first of all that I'm sorry for not pounding out the tutorials as quickly as I used to. Hopefully, after things have settled down a little, I'll be able to start posting again with some frequency, but for now, I'm looking for volunteers.

If anybody wants to try their hand at writing Flash tutorials, news stories, etc. for School of Flash, then drop me a line and let me know. These tutorials can be anywhere from introductory-level basics to uber-advanced lessons. SchoolofFlash.com sees over 35,000 pageviews per month, so this is a great way to gain some exposure and get some traffic to your own site. So, if you're interested, or if you're interested in working together in any other capacity, let me know!

I just wanted to apologize for the long wait between posts. Things have been crazy in the Campbell household lately. We've got a kid on the way, we're in the process of looking for a new house, we just found out that my wife has gestational diabetes, and we recently got back from a week-long vacation in Pagosa Springs, Colorado (during which I learned how to fix some delicious fried chicken).

Hopefully, now that things have calmed down a little bit, I'll be able to post some more tutorials soon. In the meantime, here's a picture of the view from the back porch of the cabin where we stayed in Colorado. (Photography is one of my many passions.)