Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

You can get Flash-y with your Web site -- here's how!


Know your audience, plan your site, and make it both interactive and cool

Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site. With Flash, you can add interactivity, video, an exciting and easy-to-navigate interface, and eye candy like custom cursors and flying text. This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, so you can have your site up and running in no time.

Discover how to
* Build an interface with custom buttons and menus
* Include animation and soundtracks
* Dress up your text
* Create tween animations
* Create ActionScript objects
* Test and publish your site

User review
A usefull reference - but far from complete and not always accurate
A good reference for beginners in flash.

Plenty of useful information. Most of it is pretty easy to digest. Some info though, I found to be inaccurate or misleading, so I would certainly not recommend that this be your only reference!!!

Also, the author seemed to have a hard time writing more then two sentences without some sort of attempt to be clever or funny. I find this pretty annoying.

I recommend learning Flash from a variety of sources. This could be one of those sources, but again, I don't recommend that you trust it too much.


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This is the book I reach for when I'm looking for quick concise descriptions. I almost use it as an extended glossary. The index is great. There are subjects I find in the index that I cannot find in the indexes of more comprehensive instructional books, nor the online Flash help. I can almost always find what I'm looking for. I thought I would outgrow this book as my skills increased but I find I still use it all the time.