22 Versatile Adobe Flash Menu and Navigation Tutorials

by Flash, Inspiration

Flash design is being used less and less within web design nowadays, ads and games aside. We all know how about its down sides, and everyone certainly hates the “Click here to open in Full Screen” links that are, fortunately, not being used as much as in years gone by. There is no denying it though, visually Flash is beautiful. Is it time for a revival?
Below we have 22 Flash Menu and Navigation Tutorials, they can all be used for all website designs, whether it be CSS or Flash. Download or Buy Adobe Flash CS4 Professional »

Versatile ActionScript 3.0 Menu with Masking

Flash Navigation and Menu TutorialsLink : View Tutorial »
Description : You will learn in this tut a quick and solid way of using basic ActionScript skills, blended with a bit of your own creativity, to construct an intuitive and user friendly navigation system.
Demo : View Demo »

Glass Aero Flash Menu with Fade Effect

Flash Navigation and Menu TutorialsLink : View Tutorial »
Description : In this tutorial you will learn how to make a Vista Aero-like flash menu with awesome fade effect using Flash CS3.

Modern Horizontal Flash Menu

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Description : In this tut you will learn how to create a cool animated horizontal menu. You will use ActionScript 3 for the animation, so no timeline animation is involved, and you will use random colors in the menu for extra difficulty. Great tut.

Funky Flash Navigation Tutorial

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Description : In this six part flash tutorial you will create an amazing Funky Navigation, just like the one in the image.

Colorful Menu with XML and ActionScript 3

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Description : In this tutorial you will be shown how to create a nice colorful Flash XML menu with ActionScript 3.

Flash Infinite Gallery and Menu

Flash Navigation and Menu TutorialsLink : View Tutorial »
Description : In this Flash and ActionScript 3 tutorial you will be taught how to create an infinite gallery, which will also work perfectly for menus and and any type of navigation system.
You will need the free plugin TweenMax for this tutorial.

Advanced Color Menu in Flash with Sound

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Description : In this, step by step action script tutorial, you will create a very advanced and modern flash menu with sound. The end result can be incorporated into style or type of website.

Actionscript 3.0 Drop Down Menu (Video)

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Description : In this great and simple tutorial you will learn how to build a Flash Actionscript 3.0 Drop Down Menu which is easy to add drop down sections to, and pretty simple to setup. With this technique you can simply reuse the menu infinite times by adding a few color changes, or some menu or text changes.

Advanced XML Menu

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Description : Learn how to create this cool advanced XML menu. You will first set up everything ready in Flash, then create the XML file and finally add some ActionScript 3 for the functionality.

Advanced and Powerful Flash Menu with Sound

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Description : In this detailed Flash tutorial, you will learn how to create a very advanced and very modern flash menu useing action script and with added sound. The menus end resut is very versatile and can be used in any style of site design.

Rotating Menu

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Description : In this easy to follow tut you will create a basic rotating menu with ActionScript 3.0. You will be able to edit your Flash movie easier, and make the menu items that little bit more visually appealing.

Advanced Drop Down Menu

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Description : In this fairly advanced tutorial, you will create an advanced drop down menu using Flash. You are expected to know some Flash basics, such as creating an MC (movieclip symbol), using labels on the timeline etc.

Black and Orange Flash Menu

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Description : In this lesson, you have a chance to learn how to create modern black and orange flash menu using some special flash tips and tricks using action script.

Black Menu Flash Tutorial

Flash Navigation and Menu TutorialsLink : View Tutorial » Description : This Flash tutorial will show you how to create a sleek black navigation menu.

Advanced Flash Menu with Effects and Sound

Flash Navigation and Menu TutorialsLink : View Tutorial »
Description : Using this thoroughly explained and detailed flash tutorial, you will see how to create a cool, advanced and trendy flash menu with sound.

Vertical Menu with Actionscript 3 and XML

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Description : This tutorial will teach you how to create a smooth scrolling vertical menu with the help of XML and ActionScript 3. You will first set up everything on the Flash stage, then make the XML file and last, adding the functionality with ActionScript 3.

Shaky Flash Menu

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Description : This tutorial will teach you how to create a cool looking shaky menu with ActionScript 3. All the animation is done with ActionScript, so no timeline animation is required.

Drop Down Flash Menu

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Description : This Flash tutorial will show you how to create a basic drop down menu.

Blue Flash Menu

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Description : In this Flash 8 tutorial you will be taught how to make a powerful flash menu with sound.

Spore Menu

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Description : You will learn how to create a simple navigation menu with basic effects.

Advanced Business Flash Menu

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Description : In this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson made for Flash 8, you will learn how to create a really cool and attractive image based advanced business flash menu (that’s a mouthful!) which you can use for any web site.

XML Flash Menu

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Description : A tutorial showing you how to create a Flash menu, using xml for the button text.

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  • James JOnes

    Wow, good stuff dude.

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  • http://www.alfredre.com Alfred

    I love Flash and I’m even a Flash game designer… but I hate Flash websites! I would much rather have html. Some of these tutorials have some nice designs in them, but I still just don’t enjoy Flash websites, unless they’re primarily about games or cartoons.

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  • http://www.designsnake.org Paul Stambaugh

    Hi, I really enjoyed you article about Flash and tutorials provided. I think it would be interesting to expand upon the idea of reviving flash…. but I think that Adobe themselves are trying to slowly retire it and replace it with AIR. The thing that seems to turn people off Flash is it’s use for full web sites and lack of solid SEO action. I try to promote the idea of Flash modules over anything else, but the tide does seem to trying against Flash. APPLE non-iphone thing does not help either.

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  • http://www.baywebdevelopment.com Bay Web

    Very nice collection of flash menus. Keep up the great work!

  • http://feedit.iblogger.org/ hadi060

    Great Flash Tutorials collection! Thanks very much for sharing it..
    Flash is a fantastic Wolrd!

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  • http://www.looogo-web.com/ Kamrul

    Great tutorials thanks.

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  • http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/ Oliver Blake

    I really like Flash and I’m always looking for new things to do with it. There are some really good tutorials here and I will have to look at them properly and try some out. Thanks for these.

  • Paul

    A lot of these are just plain terrible. Almost all of these could be done using either pure HTML+CSS or a combination of HTML+CSS and a little Javascript.

    And menus with sound? Sound? Websites are not supposed to make sound unless the user clicks some sort of Play button.

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  • http://www.dzinepress.com Vidiya

    i always find these kind of stuff from different blogs, but there is a unique number of tutorials for my learning, so i really love to read more like this stuff, thanks Admin.

    Regards,
    Vidiya (NY, USA)

  • http://www.linkpopularitymatters.com Sanorita

    Great bunch of Flash Tutorials!! I would like to add “Interactivity of the flash can really impress the visitor but the heavy use of unnecessary animation and pluggins will kill the purpose of your website”.

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    You have collected a good collection on flash if any person is fresher in flash your tutorials help that person…. Thanks for sharing these important tips on flash… :)

  • http://www.friiso.com sven

    Good read, thanks.

  • http://www.psprint.com/stickers-labels Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing

    Honestly, I don’t prefer Flash websites…..they are too complicated. But these tutorials really have some cool designs. Nice post.

  • http://www.ilike2flash.com ilike2flash

    Thanks, this is great selection of Flash menu.

  • John Papas

    Great tutorial. And of course there is the easy way to create flash menus using FMF: http://www.flashmenufactory.com/

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  • http://www.glendelmdesign.co.uk Web Design Cambridgeshire

    This is a great read, I always love flash menus. Thanks for sharing :)

  • Lasitha

    Nice! As a sys admin and web admin had to learn flash also. Difficult to find a good collection Thanks!!!

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  • http://www.webpageboom.com SEO India

    Thanks, for great selection of Flash menu.

    good job!

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  • http://www.craigfordham.net Lisa Thomason

    Excellent Flash tutorials collection, Thank you for the share. LT

  • http://www.securityking.com Craig

    Really great collection of Flash menu tutorials. Really good compilation, and some were really easy to follow, Thanks!

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  • http://GearNoir.com Ali

    Using Flash CS5 these days but actionscript 3.0 is pretty hard to get :/ hope I learn eventually

  • http://yestech.co.cc Rudi

    Nice list, but honestly this list is too old.

    I hope you cab update the list,

    Thanks

  • Transformed

    ~Just a really great, easy-to-understand site. Thanks for your effort. It is under my favorites. For your shaky menu tut, do you have AS 2.0 code for that? I would love to incorporate it in a “Piet Mondrian” piece I’m doing for my design class at college. Need by next Monday, if possible.

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    Great tutorials! Thanks!

  • Rj2407

    thanks for them….