FLASH: Newbie Questions!!!!

[Ken Holmes]

I am reading alot of complaints about Newbie questions.

I don't understand what everyone is complaining about obviously some people get a little confused with how Macromedia has written some of their help and tutorial information.

Don't get me wrong I do agree with whomever that if you don't understand try your best to find the answer through the manual or tutorials that are provided.  But just like any other program that is out there the person that writes the help file has most likely used the programe extensively and forgets what it's like to be somebody faced with a strange, exciting and new programe in front of them, that can sometimes be overwhelming to say the least.

I have been using this programe for about 1 year now and I have a strong grasp of the basics intermediate and advanced features, and sometimes I have to go back to the manual or tutorials because some of the most simplest things become so unimportant that they are forgotten. So my point here is that sometimes we need to have a little patience and help people even if the question is so simple that you and I could explain it to a 10 year old that would get it.  So in closing we all started somewhere and maybe some people advance faster than others, but that doesn't mean that we are better in any way. You never know one of them could be the next Eye4u or Matinee genius.

And someday they could be explaining to us how to performe some mind blowing effect.

 

Anyways I don't want to start a Listserv war I just feel that everybody deserves to learn not matter what the circumstance.

 

Have a good weekend everyone.