I have an old Flash 4 primer I'd be happy to loan you, Kayla. I downloaded the program for a test 30 day period and semi-learned it. But I had just learned PSP7 as well and was on overload.
Flash is like most puter programs. The learning curve is steep, picky and frustrating at first, but flattens out greatly after the first painful couple of weeks.
Most of the concepts are similar to PSP7, but the art is less complicated and there is the '4th dimension' temporal element. But it's all fairly straightforward.
The only Flash site I like right now is Hollywood. The site manages to avoid the chronic Flash difficulty of long load times and integrates the Flash stuff pretty well into the page. The only problem is that you cannot download the girls' photos for 'home study' - an activity that I find both enjoyable and helpful.
For the newby, Flash is the 'movie-like' graphics program you find on some sites. (Again check the HE site for a good example.) It's quite distinct from the 'static' websites based on html and web graphics files based around .jpegs and .gifs.
Thanks for the help, kayla. I'll email you at HFH for the graphix!