Useful Links

Pixelranger
A designer at 2advanced who went solo. Very creative use of animation and design elements.
2advanced Studios
Very techy design flavor with heavy usage of animation and layer depth. Eye opening.
Hillman-Curtis
Big name design house who does unbelievable work. I am in awe every time I visit.
Pixel2Life
Tutorials for every graphic software you own. Good place to start and learn. All levels of learning.
deviantART
Eclectic art community for various forms of multimedia.
kirupa.com
Flash media design tips and forums.
flashkit.com
Lots of tutorials and examples for most things you would ever want to build in Macromedia Flash. There are sounds, clips, and other royalty free pieces there too.
half.com
You know those $50 books you keep buying to learn new software tricks? Half.com is run by ebay and you can find almost everything here for a fraction of the retail cost. It's well worth the look.
biorust.com
Artist community with lots of independent art and helpful tutorials. Lots of material so you have to dig a little.
swift3d.com
3D modeling software that is very flexible. You can export to a number of formats and import the native files directly into Flash. Very handy vector animation tool with a fairly good render engine for bitmap images.

htmlgoodies.com
A great place to learn or refresh basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and a lot more. The site is designed especially for beginners.