Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 500 pages
• ISBN 10 Number: 0789724618
• ASIN: B000H2MC2U
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description
Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch teaches you about the many tools and features of Flash movie creation by building a Flash site for a travel company. In addition to addressing general interface and planning topics, the book covers topics such as creating graphic elements with drawing tools, working with symbols and libraries, and using timelines and animations. Advanced chapters teach you to build interactive pages with forms and variables. When you are done with the project, you will have a completed Web site that takes advantage of many features of Flash. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Author
I wrote this book for the beginning/intermediate user to learn Flash in a hands-on, project-based approach. My goal is to teach Flash skills through the development of a Flashed Web site. By presenting skills in relation to a project, you will quickly learn the basics of Flash design and development. I included advanced techniques for integrating a panoramic 360 degree movie, smart clips, and intelligent ActionScripting. You can easily transfer all skills learned to your own Web development. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Macromedia Flash 5 From Scratch (Paperback) I am someone who is highly interested in all things computer I have throughout my computer learning taken note of several different learning kinds. There are those whom want to jump right in and do their thing...without really understanding the why behind the thing they are doing. Then there is the learner that never seems to grasp anything theoretically and is so absorbed on following precise measures from books that when something finally does goes wrong they are just lost without the guidelines. Then there are the more middle learners, that do not take all forms of instruction factualy but also seek to do cool things and can absorb and put together all instuction quite well. This book offers a rarity in computer books today: in-depth, precise, clear explanations of what you are supposed to do to do some cool things when you get your inspiration, and great behind the scenes insight to help you understand why you need to do what to do, to do your cool things. Flash is all the rage today most people are reading books searching for methods that come from graphic designers when these people reading these books clearly are not graphic designers. If you want to learn and figure out how to solve problems through design then buy some graphic design theory books, but don't buy Flash 5 books simply because they offer neat tricks when you don't even understand the individual concepts that combine to make those neat little tricks. To really get far in that end of Flash you will unfortunately have to undertake learning programming theory because all of those tricks make use of programming and that is a separate system ogre of its own. This is certainly the book you want to buy if you are a designer who knows how to do the pretty stuff but you want to put together this into Flash and want to have a complete know how of the program that will allow you to carry out your ideas. This was by far an excellent Flash book and something you don't want to miss! Comment | | (Report this)