Web Tricks and Techniques: Interactive Pages with Flash: Fast Solutions for Hands-On Web Design
Product Description
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
I’ve received the book that took 3 weeks to arrive (when the seller told me 1) and it was it poor condition. At least I’ve got it. M
Rating: 2 / 5
Of course it’s 5 stars, I wrote the book
It took a while longer then normal for the publisher to get the book site up and running, but it’s now there and all of the FLAs are available for download.
Rating: 5 / 5
Maybe it’s just me but there are quite a few broken links that is featured in this book. That’s kind of understandable because companies do change sometimes but when the reference web site that is associated with the book is also non-functional you have a problem.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is good if you haven’t done much in flash. It has a beautiful layout and great (looking) examples, but doesn’t do much in the way of in depth flash. Very little action script is applied to animations outside of the game example at the end. The best thing I got out of this book was a reference to http://www.miniml.com
Rating: 3 / 5
Ever heard of image numbers (image 1a) or bulleted or numbered lists for step-by-step instructions (that seem to skip a few steps). I read a lot of books and this one is driving me insane because I want to learn what’s in here. Great ideas. I’ve taken one tech writing class and feel this author should do the same.
Rating: 3 / 5