Question about scrolling effect

[jeremycollins]

I want to design a type of news website, created for my local town, but I am not sure how I would create the animations...such as for the scrolling ticker, weather, etc...

Does anyone know of a good place to learn how to do these types of animations, or may have some recommendations for me? I am lightly to moderately skilled in flash pro 8...I know the basics plus a little more.

If you can provide anything helpful...I would really appreciate it!

[asf8]

I want to design a type of news website, created for my local town, but I am not sure how I would create the animations...such as for the scrolling ticker, weather, etc... Does anyone know of a good place to learn how to do these types of animations, or may have some recommendations for me? I am lightly to moderately skilled in flash pro 8...I know the basics plus a little more. If you can provide anything helpful...I would really appreciate it!

Hi jeremycollins, welcome to AS.org

Services like yahoo, google and many others offer widgets to place on your website for news, weather etc..(not necessarily using Flash). Likewise many of those offer API's that interface with Flash for data feeds etc...

For realtime weather you would need such a feed, typically using a server side language outside of Flash. As for news feeds that is also something that can be accomplished using server side feeds, RSS etc...

If the news is something that will not be quite as dynamic you can use XML and then update the XML file periodically with new news etc... However I doubt if you want the update the weather all day long ;-)

You can search around the web and find various tutorials, but it really depends on what you want. Its kind of a broad question with many ways to approach it so there is not really one single answer. But maybe that will give some food for thought and get you on your way.