Today I have been looking at Flash Components over at flashloaded.com. On initial look they have a fair amount of good quality components that are easily integrated into your web presence. Outsourcing is an invaluable skill to be learned by all entrepreneurs as it can free you up to do more important things - and allow the professionals to do their job!

Control VR (one of thier 3d Flash Components) makes a 3d spin round in flash simply out of 9-36 images - and it really works - they have a great example of an elephant statue that highlights it. If your looking for a flash photo viewer then Coverflow or Photoflow is pretty sweet too - it allows flashy almost web 2.0 skipping through some photographs so as you can view them all in a nice professional way.

If you are looking for a good way to quickly add professional flash off the cuff on your site - check out flashloaded.com, they have some seriously cool ready to go flash lumps.

Personally I learned flash when I was 14 - like most of the other basic platforms there I had found it through mass popular portals - specifically for me Newgrounds.com - where flash was used to make games and animations - all of which ruled. Nevertheless I masted flash myself in about 6 months - however it would still probably more cost effective to get components from a provider rather than writing flash myself!