Professional flash website?

[asadaljaffery]

Okay, I can make CSS, XHTML based website with excellent use of photoshop
And beginner flash stuff and use flash componets.

Here's my question is:
How to make a professional looking flash website like the following:
http://fromscratch.us
http://www.group94.com
http://www.karimzariffa.com/

:confused:

Are there any softwares used besides FLASH?
do you need to master Action scripting? :p

And if there is anything else, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[Noct]

Welcome aboard,

It's tough to say exactly what methods they all used to create those sites, and I'm not knocking any of them (they are all nice), but apart from a couple of tricks here and there, (like the exploding pixels on mouse over of the one site), most of that stuff could be accomplished with simple time line work and some very basic actionscript.

The first one also has some video embedded in there which was not created with Flash. It looks like it was created with a mixture of a 3D app and a video editing suite like afterFX or something.

The reason they all look so professional is pretty easy to say really, they are all clean and concise and generally easy/fun to navigate. Less is usually more with web design, especially when Flash is involved.

[clubvikram]

yes, the knowledge of action script is must for making such sites. i dont think there are other and simple sites. if you go higher from flash the scripting and coding only increases
Vik

[haider]

I actually really admire all of the websites. However the http://www.karimzariffa.com/ website caught my attention. I was wondering how the animation of the button rotating was done. Was it rendered by illustrator then put into flash frame by frame ?. Any feedback would be appreciated

Peace
Haider

[Xegnma]

Haider:
I toyed with that site a bit and I don't think any frame-by-frame animation
was involved. Personally I think that was the result of a psuedo 3d-engine
written in actionscript. Google 3D-APIs for actionscript, they have a few out
there that my prove useful to you.