Swift 3d is a great utility for creating flash animations (specially banners). You can use the stand alone program from erain or as a 3dmax plugin.You can make 3d animations in it (or it will look 3d anyway) and it brings flash animation creation closer to the way programs like 3ds max does things.The only down side it's that it's not free.

Poser is a nice utility for creating humans and animations. It can export in flash format.

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/ is a good resources for .fla files.
http://www.flashmo.com/ prove itself useful a bunch of times
A google search for cool flash effects might do the trick also

Two ways to show something (like pictures) in a cooler way, using javascript are the lightbox and graybox.

How to make a function execute when the page is loaded without putting it in the body tag with onload, but somewhere else in the page.

Search the web for sothink swf decompiler.
Or to find other decompilers you can just search for swf decompiler.

If you wanna see what the mysql server is doing you can use mysql administrator from the mysql gui tools. It's a verry nice utility.
To find it google search for mysql downloads and download mysql gui tools. There you can find the mysql administrator.

Taken from

Programming PHP, 2nd Edition

By Rasmus Lerdorf, Peter MacIntyre, Kevin Tatroe

Optimizing Execution Time
Here are some tips for shortening the execution times of your scripts:

Again from the book

I was reading a good free php book to remind me some php things.
It covers things in php 5.
It's called