Product Description
In Flash 5 Design: From Concept to Creation, successive chapters build on each other to provide a foundation for understanding Flash. This book, written by a team of Flash experts, demonstrates the creation of more than 20 sample Web sites that use Flash in exciting ways to solve specific graphics challenges, such as designing an animated shopping cart or multimedia game. The companion Web site provides all the graphics and sound files needed to build these Flash files. This book is geared toward users who have some experience with Web or graphic design, but might be new to Flash. The accompanying CD contains a special interactive multimedia piece about the book, which includes sample applications as well as links to Flash resources on the Web.

Macromedia Flash 5 Design: From Concept to Creation

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Interactivity has moved from a cool differentiating element to a mandatory and often central aspect of Web design. To deliver the goods for their increasingly demanding clients, more and more designers are turning to Flash as their program of choice.

The latest book in Rockport’s popular Web Tricks and Techniques series offers designers an in-depth tutorial on using Flash to create standout interactive Web pages. The only book on Flash to focus exclusively on the critical topic of interactivity, this hands-on guide explores the best techniques for grabbing and keeping users’ attention in the highly competitive environment of the Web. From rollovers to cruiser polls to shopping cart technology, each interactive trick is accompanied by detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations.

Covering a range of Flash-generated techniques from the simple to the complex, this user-friendly guide will help designers of all levels create Web pages that keep users coming back for more.

Daniel Donnelly is the publisher of InYourFace.com, a Web-based multimedia design magazine. He is also the author of In Your Face: The Best of Interactive Interface Design; In Your Face Too: The Best Interactive Interface Design; Cutting Edge Web Design: The Next Generation; Upload: Taking Print to the Web; and the forthcoming WWW Design: Flash. He lives in Chico, California.

Web Tricks and Techniques: Interactive Pages with Flash: Fast Solutions for Hands-On Web Design

• ISBN13: 9781564969064
• Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
Flash animation is widely used in web design, and is a program that many clients ask to have incorporated into their sites. Author Daniel Donnelly has spent countless hours culling web sites from around the world and has built up a collection of a tight body of examples of the use of the Flash animation program, which would otherwise be difficult to find without a specific address.

WWW Design: Flash: The Best Web Designs from Around the World

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Have you completed the Flash Professional 8 Essential Training course, or are you already up to speed on the fundamentals of Flash? If so, you’re ready to move beyond the basics with this series of step-by-step video tutorials. In Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics, Shane Rebenschied will expand your Flash skill set by guiding you through the production of a complete website built with Flash and ActionScript. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics

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Flash User Experience Best Practices offers solutions to common user experience issues that Flash designers and developers face every day. Topics shown include: making the browser Back button work with the Flash Player, handling state management, implementing effective Flash detection with useful alternate content, improving “scanability” and workflow in your applications, and helping users maintain context while working with your applications. Throughout the training videos, Robert Hoekman, Jr., shows you real-world examples and demonstrates techniques for improving the experiences you create. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Please note that while this training title is relevant regardless of which version of Flash you are using, if you wish to follow along with the exercise files, you will need Flash 8 to open the files.

Flash User Experience Best Practices

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In Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training, instructor Rich Shupe delves into the key aspects of working with Flash CS3 to create professional animations, design interactive websites, and incorporate audio and video into self-contained presentations. The training covers using the drawing and color tools, mastering the essentials of animation, and working with type, graphics, sound, and video. Rich also introduces the essentials of working with ActionScript 3.0. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Customizing the Flash CS3 workspace
• Drawing with pencil and line tools
• Using the color mixer
• Nesting and breaking apart symbols
• Adding, deleting, and grouping layers
• Testing and publishing files
• Importing images and image compression
• Tweening gradients
• Controlling text appearance
• Using filters and blend modes
• Adding sound and video
• Introducing ActionScript 3.0

Duration: 8 hours
On 2 CD-ROMs

Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training

• ISBN13: 9781564969064
• Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
• Notes:

Product Description
Flash animation is widely used in web design, and is a program that many clients ask to have incorporated into their sites. Author Daniel Donnelly has spent countless hours culling web sites from around the world and has built up a collection of a tight body of examples of the use of the Flash animation program, which would otherwise be difficult to find without a specific address.

WWW Design: Flash: The Best Web Designs from Around the World

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The power of Flash…

Many of the web’s most eye-popping sites are created using Flash, a program which allows for total creative freedom and maximum interactivity. In its early years, Flash was used mostly for artistic and design sites, but more recently large corporations—even Citibank—have turned to Flash. This guide rounds up the very best and most innovative sites using 100% Flash navigation, including Nike, Adidas, Bacardi, Shrek, Nintendo, Playstation, Ford, and Honda. Also featured are two case studies and an introduction by Rob Ford, the creator of Favorite Website Awards.

Web Design Flash Sites

Product Description
The power of Flash…

Many of the web’s most eye-popping sites are created using Flash, a program which allows for total creative freedom and maximum interactivity. In its early years, Flash was used mostly for artistic and design sites, but more recently large corporations—even Citibank—have turned to Flash. This guide rounds up the very best and most innovative sites using 100% Flash navigation, including Nike, Adidas, Bacardi, Shrek, Nintendo, Playstation, Ford, and Honda. Also featured are two case studies and an introduction by Rob Ford, the creator of Favorite Website Awards.

Web Design Flash Sites