# How to be an effective Flash designer?

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**Created:** [January 18, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-be-an-effective-flash-designer/213310 "2007-01-18T17:02:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-be-an-effective-flash-designer/213310/1 "2007-01-18T17:02:55Z")

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HI I am going through a crisis here.

I have started to learn Flash and have built a site which is fairly okay, bit of AS and that. But one thing I am is useless at programming. Basically I am a designer who has ideas that I try to implement in the best way using my limited knowledge of Flash. I have got 2 books on AS and find them hard and a little boring to get through.

My question is, do I need to know a lot of Action Script to do Banners, Flash Navs etc properly or is motion tweening etc old hat and bad practice now. What do I need to know to create Flash for say just HTML, CSS based sites like animations and not fully blown Flash sites? I know this is a general question, but I was hoping some experts could guide me in the right direction.

Thanks