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hmm .. why am I here..?
Well, it started when my housemate referred me to FK as a resource site and I posted a quick site check for a terrible bit of flash in all honesty (that aspect hasn't improved for me much) and I got some really friendly and constructive feedback which helped a lot so I stuck around, downloaded a few files and became a member of the community and here I am.
I still suck at flash but I like to think my horizons have been broadened and I'm a better designer these days :)
My work decided that I was to make a demo site in flash for CD distribution. Was complaining to someone that I did not have a clue about flash and they sent me here.
I was scared of the CL to start with. It reminded me of High School! All the cool kids hung out here and I was an outsider and would never fit in :D
Then one day I started posting in the CL and that was it.
There are some memorable people here... and even those that made my life hell (hellbelowme!) made this place kinda special.
I have met a few of the members at conferences and even the animal expo! *waves to Mr Petley*
And have formed some very special friendships *cuddles Gerbie*
I do not post much now, FK eats too much bandwidth and I keep getting told off at work, so I never come here...
but it is good to drop by on occasion.
Nice thread... my story;
it was like somewhere 2000 i started using flash, only problem was i hadnt a internetconnection at that time so FK was something i never heard of. Then on a birthday of a friend of mine I started to talk about flash with some guy. he mentioned flashkit and I stored it deep away in my brains ;)
Somewhere in 2001 I got Cable-connection and I surfed to flashkit. I was amazed at what I saw, I've spend like half my summer holiday surfing on Flashkit, posting things, reading tutorials, checking out movies.
And now I know my things of Flash, so when I post now its usely a reply in the newbies-section. Paying back all those answers FlashKit gave me when I was still a newbe.
Thanks for your time :) all
I've been using FlashKit as a primary source of good tutorials for the two years that I've been playing with Flash. I never clicked over to the forums until recently, but they were having a Photoshop contest on the Design and Graphics forum and I couldn't resist registering and posting my own attempts. I still post only occasionally, but I spend a good deal of time here. This is a great place.
i can't really remeber how i got here! i was searching for forums that help you with flash because i have so many annoying problems with flash because i'm just an amatuer. loh-and-behold you guys popped onto my screen, or something like that, and i check back with ya'll pretty much every day!!!
LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Man...it has been a while. I've been lurking FK forever, till I joined FK up with a SN of blastoval in early 2001. I really hated it, so I dropped my post count, join date, and rejoined as fospher.com in the 2002. I really like it here...the people are really nice, cool, educated, and you can lead an intellectual discussion, which is never possible with any of my dumb buddies. I think I found FK through Google, however I'm not quite sure about that one. I hope FK will live for a long time so future generations can benefit of the immense ammount of knowledge thats contained in the site.
//f
and personally, i like the G-rated policy FK has implemented. It brings a more educated bunch, a more mature bunch, a bunch of programmers, artists, and designers.
I've been in the shadows with flashkit for almost three years, you guys have given me a new source of inspiration and i hope to show the world one day my flash skills, but for now flashkit is the place:smoov:
i was brought in here by my Web Design institute instructor . he was real good in Flash and i had asked him the secret of his expertise . he showed me FLashkit , Flashguru and also the erstwhile WH . Enojyed and made many a friends in here over the years.
One more thign i would like to say - a site registered/opened in October 99 and affiliated with Internet.com in January 2000 - thats too good . :)
luv this site.:D keep it up!
I am studying to be MCDBA and probably a MCSE, so I was looking in to APIs and also into some GUI stuff cause I hate VB.
Anyways, I wanted to find some thing different to be able to design front end stuff for DB's. I stumbled apon flash, got sucked into the life and while searching for all things flash came across Flashkit. Now I spend most of my time doing flash things instead of spending it in the exciting world T-SQL with it's fun indexes, and stored procedures, blah , blah boring. ActionScript kicks ass.
I was actually given this site URL as a resource for SWiSH when it came out. After seeing the site and resources available here BEYOND the scope of SWiSH, I quickly converted to learning FLASH! :)
MOTION GRAPHIKS (or however it is spelled)...was actually great motivation for me.
-whispers-
Actually Im still trying to find help for my broken flashlight. I found flashkit by searching in google for "flash" and "light" and "fixer kit". I came to a tutorial, but it looked very unrealistic, like it wasnt about a real flashlight at all.
Im on a slow and expensive modem connection, where the heck do I press to download flashkit, so that I can continue my story offline?
my multimedia teacher told me about this site.
Then when i got addicted he got mad at me cause i was spending too much time on fk. =( but i was already far more advanced then the seniors. I am so cool. You all love me. Hi
Thanks all, keep up the good work .
why flashkit... hmmm good question. i started using flashkit as a means of learning flash, flash 4 was just around the corner and i saw some pretty impressive stuff made with it. I wanted to make my own site with equally impressive stuff on my site.
it was in late 1999 (nov/dec) when i started to look for a flash tutorial site... there wasn't really al that much out there. actually flashkit seemed like the most complete resource site for flash at the time, it never occured to me till a year or two ago that flashkit was founded in 1999 anyway i made my first flash movie, learned the basics and it was like november 2000 when i realised i used flashkit alot (and i mean really alot) so i signed up. I didn't use that account though there was like 8 posts on it and I was still just using the flashkit main site.
then i wanted to learn some more animation. I really like drawing pictures and stuff like that and i wanted to take the next step and make an animation. I was searching and i didn't really find a proper tutorial.... basicly because there isn't a way to learn it but by doing it and from advice of experienced people. so i was again looking around on the board. Enter A&A section. the people where very friendly at the time and Anime was always a favorite genre of mine so, and a common interest back then. The ambience was great, and i thought well i'll sign up with an new acount, that was in april or so.
i learned the ropes from people there, i chatted about anime, and other stuff and actually the only place of interest was actually A&A for me. it's there where i got all my posts and i never actually used the coffee lounge. it wasn't till last year winter when i started to come here and actually notice that this was actually an existing lively section of the board. however i'll still remain active mainly in the A&A section due to the interest and the general ambience. I seen alot of people come and go and well maybe i'll go sometime to (not likely) but until that day i'll stick to the old and trusty A&A section :P
i hate flashkit
I found Flashkit through Colin Moock's book "Actionscript, the Definitive Guide." (Great book by the way.)
I found that there really is nothing that even compares to Flashkit on all levels. Flashkit is the place to be for Flashers. Simple as that.
I pitty the fool who misses out on Flashkit!
:mrt:
I remember one day asking a friend of mine who used to work for a fair-sized design house how to script something, and i just couldn't wrap my head around it...since i was a Flash newbie! So after about 15minutes of trying to explain fscommand he said, "Just go Flashkit and look for a tutorial, dammit!" :)
i have since then been hooked!
this must have been ma first thread:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=375766
eh hem....!!
the story began when I was tasked to come up with
a "different" website which would identify with
the company's "corporate brand" (u know the usual
terms used by marketing lads 'n' lasses)...so this marketing guy
then introduced me to his highly IT enthusiatic friend of
his who happened to be always going on about this animal called Flash.
(to be honest, i abhorred the use of animations 'n' sound
'n' all that to "choke" the poor bandwidth...!! so this
blabbering fella was a pity to meself)
then the fella told me about
www.widegroup.net and
www.2advanced.com
I viewed the pages with doubt and conservative ignorance.
If i did say sumthin' at the moment I saw widegroup.net,
it was
"....!!!!"
then
"d a y u m!!!"
"d a y u m!!!"
"d a y u m!!"
was all I could say after that.next thing I was singing
choruses about the websites and showing off the fact that
I knew them.I returned with an awed face to the fella
who'd been a blabber mouth previously.He told me about
Flashkit, and next thing was that this here fella was hooked.
:D
I also went to the coffee lounge for the first time quite recently
'n' caused a bit o' a controversial stir....lol!!! (shant say more!)
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...ighlight=idiot
anyway i luv this place 'n' all the help some o'
u guys have given me
...sighhh...that's just about it!
I found flashkit while searching for tutorials for Flash MX.
The people that sacrifice/invest their time, energy, thought and soul in order to provide us all with this fantastic community deserve a big salute! Thank you all.
I am trying to learn to use Flash MX for Web Site Development, and find this place an invaluable resource.
i remember reading about swish 1.5 in a magazine. i visited swishzone to download the program and to click on the link to flashkit. i think my first question here was one of these typical faq's. thinking about it, i was lucky that nobody yelled at me, like "SEARCH THE FORUMS!" etc.
there were many nice people at swish help, so i started to spend lots of time there, 10% helping, 90% struggling with mysql. big applause for jstarkey and his crew for fixing things and keeping this place up and running so smoothly!
I was introduced to flashkit a while back after doing a google on Flash. I found this site. I found a couple of tuts. I lost the link to the site. But i was hooked on flash i could remeber the words FLASH it so then a did a whole heap of googles of worrds like flash hit, flash wit and so onuntil i tried flash kit and bang im back. I dont post much on the forums but i come here everyday and read on he forums and watch the arena battles.
FK is awesome.
i first came here looking for sound loops for a project, then got hooked on the discussions, esp board room, CL, and help. i got a lot of great advice too on projects i was developing. my first post (a review):
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=183084
now i hang out mostly in the board room, but still wander into the CL and help areas here and there.
I don't recall how I got here, but it was likely that I was struggling with something, did a search and found flashkit. It's very helpful. I suck at flash, but when I need help, I come here. When I finally learn something, I like to give back and share it with other fellow strugglers.
Someday, if I ever have enough time, patience and brain cells, I will try to become more proficient at flash (mx). I have no idea how everybody does such amazing and elaborate things with flash. I'm totally baffled by the program, and the best I can do is struggle with it to make simple moving things.
That was about a few years ago.
Although I haven't posted a message here for about 3 years or so, I still come in here and there to see what's new in the flash world...
When I first came, the site was kinda still small.
Nothing of these new stuff. No MyFK or other stuff.
I think I found Flashkit when I was looking for help on Javascript and Flash. I didn't get much in the end, but then I started helping others on the forum that had the same problems as me.
Then I posted in every forum where to download Flash 5 with it's crack... I was banned for a month... I couldn't wait, so I made a new name - From Shin to MasterShin
:-]
This site is great, it will live forever...
Its really good to see old members coming back to post and use the site :) Thanks for your stories
Oh my oh my, how long it has been since the beginning of it all. Flashkit was an ADDICTION for the longest time. Between doing flash, giving and receiving help, and the lounge, there were not enough hours in the day. Aria, Enigma, Markp, Dowenger, Razor, JEZZA!, Mr. Fennel himself, the POPE, and yes you too GMF.... I know i'm missing so many of the people that were part of this great beginning and im glad to see how far flashkit has grown. You should've seen it at times. The forums would die every hour, and we'd all be up in mark's face about it :). I came here initially trying to give help to others. I quickly found many friends and am even still talking to some still. Boy, it has been a looong time. There have been many threads, both helpful, both not so helpful, but all great times. Most of you out there probably don't care to read any of this or even know/remember who I may be, but that's what happens when you dissapear for years huh? :) I still hold a dear place in my heart for those days and I wish you all have as wonderful a time as I did here at flashkit.
regards,
James Nguyen
when i was 13 i was watching a brooke sheilds show and then i just taught of searching for a good site in google and this site came out.....It was good at first but now its got too many advertizements....
by the way now im 16
so see el-ignoramus this is my home also ive been here 3 years writting tutorials and submitting moovies
I would have to say this was prob. one of the only things I got out of my education at FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. During one of my "graphic design" classes, before I had ever touched into web work, I looked across the room, and some professor was writting: www.flashkit.com on the large dry-erase board in red pen. Ah, I remember so clearly, I wrote it down, and started asking. I used to e-mail my friend also, all the time who a flash guru, and ask him hours of questions about Flash, and finally he directed me to FK, also. Thanks FK, your the best since sliced bread!
g.g.
riceraver :) welcome back
I was first introduced to this site in 2000 by a university pal of mine. She told me that basically "everything" I needed for flash could pretty much be found here. She was right.
Since then I haven't stopped coming back. Whether it be to run around the forums reviewing sites or picking up some top quality sound loops or flash files.
The site has grown so much over the past 3 years that sometimes I can't keep up! Its impressive to see that there's always help by just the click of the mouse.
I'm grateful for this site and I will continue to use it as long as my fingers can continue to type...
You guys are a credit to a student in need!!
Now thats a blast from the past, how are you, what are you up to now?Quote:
Originally posted by riceraver
Oh my oh my, how long it has been since the beginning of it all. Flashkit was an ADDICTION for the longest time. Between doing flash, giving and receiving help, and the lounge, there were not enough hours in the day. Aria, Enigma, Markp, Dowenger, Razor, JEZZA!, Mr. Fennel himself, the POPE, and yes you too GMF.... I know i'm missing so many of the people that were part of this great beginning and im glad to see how far flashkit has grown. You should've seen it at times. The forums would die every hour, and we'd all be up in mark's face about it :). I came here initially trying to give help to others. I quickly found many friends and am even still talking to some still. Boy, it has been a looong time. There have been many threads, both helpful, both not so helpful, but all great times. Most of you out there probably don't care to read any of this or even know/remember who I may be, but that's what happens when you dissapear for years huh? :) I still hold a dear place in my heart for those days and I wish you all have as wonderful a time as I did here at flashkit.
regards,
James Nguyen
Hi GMF and Razor.
Gee... I still remember what you look like Razor.. lol. That picture of you with your hand up to your forehead looking kinda scary :).
As of now, I abandoned the web and went searching for more in my life. I am now happily married and have 3 kids and am... ok just kidding! I'm actually putting myself through university (I've racked up about $100k US in scholarships for school) and have looked at other parts of the world for inspiration. I am currently studying Computer Science and Mathematics, with a bit of Digital Media and some Mass Communications in there somewhere. I actually came back here to flashkit so see how i did something.. hahah. I uploaded a flashtyper fla for a competition and I won :) Too bad Mark Fennel never sent me my FK Tshirt!!! Blah.. i didn't care too much about it back then, but now I kinda really want it. lol. Any chance of me getting one now???? :)
I shall try to be around here once again. As undoubtedly I am way behind in this world of webdevelopment and need as much help as I can get. I skipped flash 5 pretty much completely and have recently picked up a copy for flashmx at school.
Cheers to the old and the new here at FK. :D
Hey! I've been reading your posts. Many don't make any sense to me, but then again, I am still fairly new, and I have been off for a couple of months, doing stuff at school. School sort of stuff at school. But what has been said in this thread, has really inspired me to take up my mouse again, and start drawing some more flash movies/games/sites/ads/general entertainment/I’m taking this to far, aren't i? /i know I am/ok, I’ll stop here/yes. Here.
Ok. I’ve done for now. I’m off to do my homework, and start SWiSH again, after all these months (has it really been that long?), and I look forward to having as many posts in the future as you do now, the posts being funny and/or witty, as well as helpful. Oh yeah. I'm currently working on my site, and plan to have it up in the next few months. Done entirely in flash, of course.
Good luck then :) and thank you for your input
I came here in the very early days to download some source files and decided i would check out the Forums, from then on i was hooked in on a daily basis by the community spirit and the people behind the usernames and ive been here ever since!
Why FlashKit? Because along time ago it was the place to be and the place to get your questions answered, still is i guess, its also very rewarding helping others, and in those days and more so now there are tonnes of questions to answer and lots of people to satisfy.
Kind Regards
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Guy Watson
Old Skool - Senior Moderator
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Ohhh...
I'm really amazed with all of you telling how did you get here at Flashkit...
And all I can say is that it is a strong community and people love this place...
I remember when I had true friends from all of the world when I played "Worms 2 Roper"...
That was amazing, and I can remember the feeling of being envolved with a community...
I loved all these posts.
(sorry for my dumb english, I live in Brazil)
There are some old faces coming out, least of all mine!
Great to see some of these names again, and the little reminders like the board dying every frigging hour, and hundreds of people being very very helpful and letting me know about it!
Those were the days of 1000 emails a day, and dammit i answered every one of them!
I think perhaps a little history of FK is in order, maybe ill put something up on my site one day.
I not sure if any of the original fk shirts are around, maybe ill put mine on Ebay, along with Dan the cow :D
the total FK memorabilia sale. All items must go!
hey flashguru, good to see u are still alive too, i am in the Uk at the minute so i hope we can catch up some time (Banbury if there are anyt other flashers nearby!)