Getting back to normal after a long period of wasting time in nonsense

There are a lot of works to do, a lot of projects to finish, but I was acting like I have nothing to work. Playing games all the day, snooping around the forums messing with people. lol

When I turned back to the one month, what I achieved was nothing. Absolutely nothing. For a web developer he should enjoy his work. I started my Flashing like that. But Day by day Flash and Web developing became bore to me. Games and Forums became more interesting to me. If you want to achieve something big in your life(like me :D), make your job as your entertainment. I hope I learnt at least this in the past two months.

I am working on my official site (www.bennycreatives.com) to start a new technology blog there. It will have tutorials, flash files, what is new in the technology and many more. I am planning to earn something out of it. :D

Of course it is using Wordpress. The powerful tool for blogging. But there are thousands of Wordpress Themes available out there such as WooThemes, ElegantThemes, Nattywp. I am using one of them. The good thing that made me very happy is, the themes can switch the wordpress blogging look like a Video site, News Site, Magazine Site, etc. Not the same typical blogging functionality.

I am going to use the news theme by Woo Themes , The Gazette Edition. A good one and clean simple one. For a web developer it is a must to keep theirself up to date in everything related to his field. Even though I am a flash developer I am concentrating on Wordpress, vBulletin, Joomla, Droopal and many others. Since in the new field we can earn more since no one would not be that familiar with the software. So I am installing and trying them again and again, trying to edit them, playing around it. Check it our for yourself! It is pretty interesting to work with Wordpress and VBulletin. Cheers!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody and Happy New Year!

I wish that all of your dreams come true in the year to come, and I’m hoping we’re at the beginning of a year that’s going to be better for the entire human kind!

See you all in 2009! :)

How to make a Preloader in a simple way

Ever since we started do websites in flash, the topic of preloaders was always the one that was most popular. In case you do not know what a preloader is, it is a small animation or transition that plays while your main content is being loaded.

Preloader Examples
For example, one of my favorite animations is Adobe cards and as you are waiting for the animation to load, you are greeted with a brief animation that displays some progress info as your download commences:



There are also more elaborate preloaders that you can find such as the one on the Zune Journey site that employs a flare effect that, as more of your content gets loaded, better defines the outline of the hardware along with displaying the current progress:



There are numerous examples of preloaders on the web, but all of them have one characteristic in common. They are designed to keep your attention while the main content is being loaded.

They keep your attention in various ways. Many display a numerical load percentage so that you can gauge how much of your content has been loaded and how long you will have to wait. Some are more visual and display the progress using other means such as progress bars, filling animations, etc.

What You Will Create

Regardless of what shape the visual presentation a preloader takes, behind the scenes, they are all similar. By the end of this tutorial, you will have learned how to create a preloader and have it work when I load an image from an external location.

Your preloader will similar to what I am showing in the following image:

[ a progress bar indicating how much of your content is being loaded ]

After the preloader has finished loading, the image will become visible: