Product Description

Face it: Poorly designed, static Web sites just don't cut it anymore. The Web (not to mention the technology surrounding it) has been around long enough, and people are used to seeing and expect a little razzle-dazzle when they go online. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how to deliver it! Whether your boss wants you to jazz up the company's Web site or you're burning the midnight oil trying to pull together some Web animations for a class project, this tightly focused, project-based guide shows you how to start creating Flash animations in an instant! Using big, bold full- pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will get you animating with the latest version of Flash: using the Flash 8 authoring tool, creating and animating graphics, tweening, adding sound, and more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #129581 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From the Back Cover
Face it: Poorly designed, static Web sites just don't cut it anymore. The Web (not to mention the technology surrounding it) has been around long enough, and people are used to seeing and expect a little razzle-dazzle when they go online. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how to deliver it! Whether your boss wants you to jazz up the company's Web site or you're burning the midnight oil trying to pull together some Web animations for a class project, this tightly focused, project-based guide shows you how to start creating Flash animations in an instant! Using big, bold full- pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will get you animating with the latest version of Flash: using the Flash 8 authoring tool, creating and animating graphics, tweening, adding sound, and more!

About the Author
David Morris began creating Web sites in 1995 and has developed Web sites in corporate, non-profit, and educational arenas. In addition, he was an original member of the Macromedia Fireworks development team as well as product manager for Fireworks and Freehand.

Customer Reviews

A good confidence booster
After wrestling with Phillip Kerman's Flash 8 in 24hrs it was nice to complete a project within 24hrs. This really is Flash spoon-feeding with nice big colour screen grabs and idiot-proof instructions. Don't expect to be a Flash expert after this, use it to help familiarise yourself with the Flash user interface and the steps typical for a basic website project. Helps with understanding workflow, organising site resources and importing multiple movies into one site. Great value, quick to read and easy to follow. A good confidence booster for the beginner!

Impressive!
I am 14 and i managed to comlete the book very easily, this should give you an idea how easy it is to use this book. The book takes you through making an florist website with easy-to-understand text and pictures showing you what to do. With this book you could get a basic understanding of:
-A flash animated website
-Some simple actionscript
-How to create impressive looking backgrounds in flash
-How to publish the site to the internet using a server
Unfortunately the book doesnt explain what some of the features does so if you want to learn a lot about what actionscript is and what it does in a website i would'nt recommend buying this book. If you are looking for an easy simple step by step guide to making a website buy this book now!

Not Bad for an Intro
This book was suprisingly good, is quite cheap and covers most of the initial things that can prove daunting if you have never used Flash before. Don't expect too much of it. It takes an example site for a company, and has some simple animations buttons and links but does it in a simple but compelling way. I had foundered a bit with another more detailed text and was getting a bit frustrated but this got me started and now the bigger text seems OK.