Flashkit.com - A Flash Developer Resource Site

Want that cool drum sound loop? Desire that ambient music? Want to develop a high impact website? Flash Kit is a centre for flash creations, containing thousands of open source movies, online tutorials, help forums, sound effects and loops, and fonts. In fact, there’re over 1000 fonts available to be downloaded. Best of all, Flash Kit is completely free. You can join the Flash Kit community by going to the board and registering as a member. Membership is free and entitles you to read and post to the message boards. The message boards are an excellent way of getting to know the people on Flash Kit, and to learn. The online tutorials guide you through all the basic steps of learning to use Flash, and if you have a problem, you can turn to the help forums. Movies are the most popular feature of Flash Kit. This section contains thousands of open-source movies - created by both flash masters and normal people. Not only can you download the movie, but the source file as well. This enables you to look closely to how each movie was created, and repeat the effect in your own movie. The movies have been broken up into categories (e.g. 3D, Effects, Games, Animation, Scripting, Sound etc). Each individual movie has a preview page with details such as other people’s opinions on the movie, and the overall rating of the movie.

“We built Flash Kit because we wanted to create a resource site that as flash developers, we would find useful. We built it to create a one stop raw materials centre for flash creations, after having spent hours surfing for sounds, images and ideas, it seemed a great idea to collate and collect as much as we could into one place! We never realized how much hard work has to go into creating a site of this nature. At every point we take a step back and think to ourselves "would that help us?", "Would that be useful?” Combined with the task of sourcing content, collating content, presenting content, administering the site, promoting the site, and adding functionality to the site, whoah, some serious late nights!”

Flash Kit is easy to navigate, it has links to all the major areas, and these areas have also been divided into subcategories, and if you get stuck, there is a search site option. Flash developers will sure find this site a powerful resource. It opens a range of possibilities for not just masters, but for students too. Users will no doubt appreciate its amazing content.

What’s their business model? Membership is free as well as all the available content. Users can download sound effects, movies, fonts, get online tutorials and help forums just for free.