You¿ve seen its potential¿its new extensible architecture, its faster run-time performance, its redesigned interface. Now it¿s time to tap it! When you¿re ready to sit down with a trusted instructor and learn the ins and outs of Macromedia¿s extensive upgrade to its popular interactive tool Flash MX 2004, this is the place to turn. Using lessons based on real-life projects, this friendly guide takes you by the hand and leads you through the world of Flash MX 2004, covering its new interface, its drawing and color tools, animation basics, symbols and instances, motion, bitmaps, buttons, movie clips, ActionScript, sound, components and forms, video, and more. You can follow the book¿s clear, step-by-step exercises at your own pace and view the techniques in action on the accompanying CD¿s QuickTime tutorials. (The CD also includes project and sample files.) In next to no time, you¿ll be integrating video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences with Flash MX 2004.
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Rating: - Great for Beginners
This is really an absolute must for beginners. I am 76 and have been using computers for a few years and wanted to learn doing web sites. I just wish they had a book like this to learm Dreamweaver and it would have been easy to learn. When I went to learn Flash it was easy and all I can say is WOW. You can learn Flash easily with this book. If you really want to learn Flash and you are a beginner this is the book.
Rating: - Best of its kind
I've learned a whole raft of software by following the lessons in assorted books, but I must say this one topped the lot. I'm reasonably savvy at website work (I use Dreamweaver and Fireworks) and wanted to introduce some animation on our website, so it's time to begin learning Flash. This book is incredibly easy to follow (tells you what it's going to tell you, then tells you, and then tells you what it told you), puts everything in the right sequence, and gives context or big-picture explanations ... Read More
Rating: - The Flash Book For You
Excellent book! Clear, straight-forward, and specific. Flash is not an easy program, but this book makes it less frustrating by providing step-by-step instructions. I'm a beginning Flash developer and this book has been a god-send.
Joe Okonkwo
Rating: - GREAT Way to Learn Flash
Over the last two years, I've purchased a few Flash books in the hopes of learning the tool and spicing up my website. For some reason, the materials never delivered on their promises and I ended up going with SwishMax in a pinch. This book does a GREAT job in teaching the materials...much better than I've experienced in the past. Now that I'm comfortable with Flash, I've put SwishMax back on the shelf.
BTW, I'm an IT project manager with 30 years experience and I just turned 60...never ... Read More
Rating: - Clear, concise - excellent textbook!
I made the mistake of buying another Flash textbook without reading the reviews here. Big mistake! After two failed attempts at muddling through the text - I began to think that Flash was impossible to learn. I spent many hours following lessons without knowing what I was doing or why. And the book was full of technical errors, so often the lessons weren't even possible to follow.
I decided to give Flash one last chance. Based on the glowing reviews here I chose this Yeung / Weinman text.
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- Great for Beginners
