Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics Hands-On Training

Description

Are you already up to speed on the fundamentals of Flash? Do you know how create simple animations and write elementary ActionScript? If so, you’re ready to move beyond the basics.

Macromedia Flash 8 Beyond the Basics is all about stepping 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’ll learn how to build a professional, interactive Web site—using source files and designs supplied on the book’s CD-ROM. Along the way, you’ll learn about the new Flash 8 features: the improved text tool, new text rendering engine, new graphic filters, and more.

50+ Step-by-Step Tutorials:
•    Format dynamically loaded text using HTML, CSS, and nested images
•    Create an ActionScript-driven menu
•    Build a preloader with MovieClipLoader class
•    Add a progressively downloading, multi-track MP3 player
•    Create a video player that allows users to control playback
•    Build a slideshow that loads images and text dynamically
•    Utilize components to create a feedback form
•    Create a Flash plug-in detector

 

Features

Get hands-on, project building exercises, and a CD-ROM full of tutorials from this fully-updated, best-selling book by lynda.com!

° Learn fundamental Web design techniques that can be applied to this new and completely different version of Flash—the most significant release since the introduction of Flash!
° Includes hands-on exercises developed by acclaimed instructor Lynda Weinman.
° Companion CD-ROM contains exercise files and QuickTime tutorials to help illustrate complex techniques.