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Intended for intermediate Flash designers, this series of tutorials demonstrates how to construct scrolling text, a dynamic slideshow, a feedback form, an MP3 jukebox, a streaming video player, navigation menus, and preloaders for web sites. The necessary ActionScript classes, objects, methods, and properties are introduced along the way. The CD-ROM contains tutorial movies and trial versions of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Sorenson Squeeze. Published by Lynda.com/books in association with Peachpit Press.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Description
You're not a still-wet-behind-the-ears Flash developer, but you're no pure-ActionScript wizard either: At last there's a book that addresses your needs as a budding Flash master. If you've mastered Flash basics and have a good understanding of animation, symbols, and basic ActionScript, this project-based tutorial from the folks at Lynda.com Training is the answer to your prayers. As you follow along with the book's exercises and the CD's QuickTime tutorials, you'll build an entire Web site in Flash--in the process exploring all of the intermediate-level Flash techniques that you've been dying to get your hands on. You'll learn how to dynamically load text and images, create scrollable text, build a preloader, add music and video, build a dynamic slide show, produce a feedback form, create a Flash plug-in detector, and more. Also covered are a slew of workflow enhancements, ActionScript 2.0--the improved ActionScript language introduced in Flash MX 2004--and more.
Book Info
Features more than fifty step-by-step tutorials including: formatting dynamically loaded text using HTML, CSS, and nested images, creating an ActionScript-driven menu, building a preloader with the new MovieClipLoader class, and more. For intermediate through advanced users. Softcover.
About the Author
Shane Rebenschied graduated from the Art Center College of Design in 1998 with an emphasis on traditional and digital media. Since then his work has appeared in the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles and New York annuals, as well as numerous national and international publications and advertising campaigns. He is a fan of old paper and stains, and he can often be found staring at pieces of corroded, rusted metal. Shane is a professional freelance illustrator, Macromedia Flash designer/developer/consultant, and author living somewhere in the Arizona desert. Shane is currently the "Photoshop Guide" at InformIT.com and is also the author of Photoshop Elements 2 Hands-On Training. He maintains an online illustration portfolio at http://www.blot.com and is a partner in the interactive design firm Cloudforge (http://www.cloudforge.com). Past clients include BBC, Maxim Magazine, Scholastic, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Tor, Harper Collins, Harlequin, Hodder Headline Plc, Summertime Publishing, Harcourt Brace, Ziff Davis, Hanley-Wood LLC, Spirit IC, Backpacker Magazine, X-Files Magazine, McGraw-Hill, Vanderbilt University, Flashforward, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, San Francisco Weekly, and Cleveland Scene.
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Beyond the Basics Hands-On Training FROM THE PUBLISHER
Are you already up to speed on the fundamentals of Flash? Do you know how to create simple animations and write elementary ActionScript? If so, you're ready to move beyond the basics.
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Beyond the Basics is all about stepping up to that next level. This book expands your skill set and shows you how to integrate those skills with advanced ActionScript. Through a series of carefully developed, step-by-step exercises and demo movies, you will learn how to build a professional, interactive Web site -- using source files and designs supplied on the book's CD-ROM.
SYNOPSIS
Intended for intermediate Flash designers, this series of tutorials demonstrates how to construct scrolling text, a dynamic slideshow, a feedback form, an MP3 jukebox, a streaming video player, navigation menus, and preloaders for web sites. The necessary ActionScript classes, objects, methods, and properties are introduced along the way. The CD-ROM contains tutorial movies and trial versions of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Sorenson Squeeze. Published by Lynda.com/books in association with Peachpit Press. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Flash MX 2004 (see Computer Media, LJ 6/1/04; LJ 2/1/04) remains the hottest component of Macromedia's web development suite, so stock current guides. Those wanting to implement Flash but are intimidated by its complexity will welcome Teach Yourself, a heavily illustrated, step-by-step beginner's guide to the basics. Unfamiliar terms are succinctly defined on first use, tips answer questions and add info, and full-color screen shots illustrate concepts. Recommended for all public libraries. Including a free trial on CD-ROM, Illustrating focuses on the ins and outs of Flash's vector-drawing tools. While the text is somewhat awkward, the thorough, well-illustrated explanations make it a useful addition for larger libraries serving beginners and those wanting to learn Flash to create graphics. For intermediate users, Beyond the Basics takes readers through completing a complex real-world project, with a practical emphasis on modular construction that allows components to be reused in other projects. Its CD contains movie files that cover confusing processes, plus exercise files, trial versions of Flash and other software, and several media players. Step-by-step instructions, screen shots, discussions of using techniques in real-world situations, and just enough background information recommend this for all libraries. Flash Hacks includes 100 contributed hacks and tricks of varying complexity from multiple designers, ranging from converting animated GIFs to Flash format to making Flash content site-dependent (unable to run outside of your server). A supplemental but fun and thought-provoking purchase for larger libraries that already own how-to guides. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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