What is the difference between static and instance methods in Actionscript 3.0?

Hi,

Asking a question here in this forum someone from here suggested me to changed one of my methods to static and it worked for what I was trying to do but I would like to know what is the difference between static and instance method.

What is the difference between static and instance methods?

Can someone be so kind and explain this a little bit?

Thanks a lot!