Videos to get started on the basics of CSS.

• Setting Up a Site in Dreamweaver
• The HTML DocTYPE
• Anatomy of a CSS rule
• CSS for absolute beginners

Videos to get a handle on the basics of WordPress templates. For more information visit the Documentation Site and the WordPress Tags Page.

• Install WP and Interface
• Users, Plugins, & Themes
• Template Creation Basics
• Creating WP Navigations
• The “Loop”
• Using Multiple Templates
• Dealing with Dynamic Sidebars

For those of you that want or are interesting in learning some cool things in After Effects on your own. Check out these video tutorials courtesy of AE Tutsplus.com. Some of them require special add-on plug-ins. The image link in each one takes you to the tutorial page that has links to the software. There are free demo trial versions you can use, though most of them overlay a red X across your video since its a trial. The links also have a preview of the effect. Most of these use the Form and Particular Trapcode plug-ins.

Form a Unique Transition – Download Video

In this tutorial we are going to reveal how to create a cool particle transition between 2 videos using Trapcode Form. We will cover the importance of layer maps while using this plugin as well as how to create a stylish displacement of the particles.

Shoot Your Own Stereoscopic Footage – Download Video

This tutorial will cover the method of filming that I used as well as another method and the editing technique used for 3D videos. Creating this effect isn’t just exclusive to After Effects and the “3d Glasses” plug-in. I use a principle here in AE that you can use and put to work with any other editing program. Creating this effect really takes a lot of experimenting and playing around with the camera angles and distance and lining up the clips in editing. Fool around and find what works best for you. Enjoy!

A Funky Introduction To SoundKeys – Interface Overview – Download Video

This is the first of a three part tutorial on one of the most useful plug-in around when it comes to working with audio – “Sound Keys“.
In this part I will introduce you to the sound keys interface with and we will take a look at the very basic ways you can apply it to your work .

A Funky Introduction To SoundKeys – Putting It To Work – Download Video

This is the second of three parts tutorial on one of the most useful plug-ins around when it comes to working with audio – “Sound Keys“.
In this part I will introduce you to some more advanced uses of Sound Keys such as integrating it with other effects, time remap, and the ever popular lips sinking.

A Funky Introduction To SoundKeys – A Celebration Of Color – Download Video

In this third and last part of the three parts tutorial on Sound Keys, I will guide you step by step (more or less…) through the process of creating that Celebration of Color with Sound Keys, Particular and Form.

War! Or How to Create a 3D Particle Generated Video Display – Download Video

Wes comes back with another adrenalin fueled piece that is sure to become an Aetuts+ favorite. Using Trapcode Form as the basis to display video, he shows how to use the audio reactors built in to form to achieve something very very cool.

Videos to get a handle on the basics of using Flash.

• Interface and Timeline
• Drawing Modes
• Shape and Motion Tweens