Advice with getting started

I’m sorry if something like this has been posted before. I’ve always been into the photoshop world, but never pursued the flash world. I love looking at great amazing work, and always have wanted to design flash sites, but would like to ask how to really get started.

I’ve done some I’tutorials, and I can do basic flash. Just motion tweens, alpha effects etc…, and adding sound. But m not sure what the next step is to create amazing effects and flash based websites, where menus are loading and popping out from nowhere… that kind of stuff.

I’ve been trying to research, and this site seems a good learning resource, just wondering if someone can guide me to the right parts. Also, I noticed that alot of effects are done from action scripting. Since I have no clue about that at all, do you have be a good programmer to become good at action scripting? Does anybody have any tips or advice what i should start doing to be able to learn action scripting? Maybe I should start learning C++ all over again.

Any advice would be great, thank you.

Tom