Overview
- Get results with Flash 5—today!
- Learn from real-world examples and a live Web site
- Hot new Flash 5 techniques: MP3 support, ActionScripting, and much more
- By a top Web pro whose clients include DeBeers, Pfizer, and Lloyd's of London!
- Endorsed by WOW (The World Organization of Web Masters)
With Flash 5's slick, fast-loading vector graphics and animation, you can build sites as hot as your imagination! Now, learn Flash 5 in a flash from a professional Web designer—through real-world projects you can view live on a linked Web site. Start with the basics, then master every key technique: from animation through navigation, interactivity through building a complete opening sequence. Along the way, you'll discover how to make the most of Flash 5's hottest features: from MP3 support to ActionScripting! Best of all, the projects are linked to a live Web site where you can see (and download) each Flash effect, in each stage of completion. It's all the guidance you'll need—every step of the way!
You'll learn all this and much more!
- Master the revamped Flash 5 interface: timeline, tabbed panels, and more
- Flash fundamentals: text, shape, fills, transparency, and imported graphics
- Animation: timelines, frames, tweening, fading, transitions, and more
- ActionScripting: new techniques that deliver sizzling interactivity
- New Flash 5 drawing and graphics solutions
- Publish to the Web: pre-loading, plug-in detection, server settings, and more
Look to Essential Books for ALL the Web Skills You Need! All thesebooks share the same great format and the same dynamic Web site...so once you've used one, learning from the others is a piece of cake!
- Essential PHP for Web Professionals
- Essential ASP for Web Professionals
- Essential Design for Web Professionals
- Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Programmers
- Essential PERL 5 for Web Programmers
- Essential Photoshop 5 for Web Designers
- Essential JavaScript for Web Programmers
- With more to come!
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewThose gigantic Flash 5 books are fascinating, but what if you need to learn the rudiments in a hurry, hands on? For you, there's Essential Flash 5 For Web Professionals. This is classic learn-by-doing. You'll actually build two live Flash sites from scratch: one for a slightly stodgy biotech company, the other for a slick fashion magazine. (Nice touch, since the world's full of both kinds of clients, and you can rarely predict which one's coming next.)
In a mere 250 downsized pages, you'll learn the new Flash 5 interface, learn how to import and fine-tune your graphics and other media; add interactivity; build splash screens and e-mail forms; selecting resolution, platforms, and settings; create preload animations, and more. To check your work, you can download each project at key stages, or view it directly online, on the book's web site. Very efficient -- and quite fun.(Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant and writer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.