Webmaster Books Flash

Author: Sham Bhangal, Peter Holm, Nikhil Adnani
Published: 16-Mar-2001
Pages: 763
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Calling upon a talented group of over 20 cutting-edge "Flashers" (working Flash professionals) to helm different chapters, Flash 5 Studio covers advanced site management, content creation (like Smart Clips, cartooning, video, and sound), dynamic content (interactive movies that feed content dynamically from separate data sources--for example, news headlines), ActionScripting, and issues that are crucial to partial or full Flash Web sites (like preloaders or optimizing Flash for search engines). The motto of the book: "deeper, more serious, more fully explained."

Each chapter teaches a specific technique or concept through examples that capitalize on the particular talents of that chapter's Flasher/author. For example, Nikhil Adnani is a talented and humorous cartoonist/animator from Canada (his Web site is www.groovechamber.com), and his chapter walks you through practical steps for creating charming animations (such as making a cow strut), while dispensing good advice on character design, making convincing movement, and optimization. Richard Mapes from www.Moonfruit.com provides an introduction to ActionScript principles; if coding seems beyond you, this might just clear the fog. From there, readers can explore scripting used in 3-D effects or object-oriented games. The CD-ROM contains project FLAs and SWFs, as well as color images from selected chapters, and trial versions of software.

Author: Sham Bhangal, Amanda Farr, Patrick Rey
Published: 01-Nov-2000
Pages: 625
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Perhaps one of the finer values that you're likely to find in a crowded market, for a mere 30 bucks, Foundation Flash 5 will give you an excellent tutorial that brings you through almost every usable feature of Flash 5. Of course, being a true walk-through of Flash's features, this means that it won't serve you particularly well as a future reference or as a resource for advanced Flash users--but, who cares? For the beginner, you'll find it hard to beat the information that's presented here