Macromedia Flash 5 Design: From Concept to Creation
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.
book looks nice, lots of pretty pictures, but just doesn’t compare to other flash books out there. books like Flash 5 Magic cover so much more stuff you’d think this book was about a different program. plus flash magic and other books are cheaper! this is a no brainer – don’t waste your money on this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a plethora of oxymorons, stress on the morons. In what appears to be a professional quality book on the outside, one will quickly discover that this book is soaked with wordy drivel designed to lure the reader into paying for an expensive book. It is almost as if this book was concieved by a group of creative Flash useres, and then thrown to a bunch of mindless robots to fill in the massive gaps with repetitious fodder. This book is a masterpiece of bad writing and unsupported hype fluff.
Rating: 1 / 5
The samples in this book look great! It has the best graphics I’ve seen in any Flash book. Unfortunately that’s where the book stops being good. The book seems to be missing the “Meat”. All the samples are very simple; some are rewrites of what comes with the actual program(ie: calculator, and drag and drop game). I actually regret buying this book, next time I will read the first chapter of a book before buying it. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover, or the graphics inside! Hope this review helps anyone trying to decide what book to buy.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book has 21 example flash movies and how to make them. It is not a book to learn the basics of flash, just examples. Each of the 21 chapters/examples are so wordy I kid you not, it took 21 lines just to describe how to copy frames from one movie to another. Superbly wordy. If feel the authors were definately trying to fill in space with words or they are totaly undermining the intelligence of their readers. (Epic (the authors) you need to fix this, it’s was most annoying). Secondly, the examples were way too simple and not did not progress throughout the book. Many of them were not much different from each other (come on, not fair!) Even as a beginner they were too simple. For the cost of this glossy paged book it was definately not worth it at all. (Epic, your gonna need sleeker, more advanced examples that are really up to par with the Flash world and please, please streamline your verbage times two).
Rating: 1 / 5
This book sure LOOKS nice, but it is severely lacking for a comprehensive Flash 5 book. It really seems like this book was written for Flash 3, as none of the new Javascript-like syntax or object-oriented nature of Flash 5 is covered. Any of the examples can be done in Flash 4, VERBATIM. I agree with the guy in the first review – this thing is even wordier than the manual that comes with Flash, and not much better. I would suggest any potential buyers to seriously look at other books before buying this one.
Rating: 1 / 5