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Creating a Web Site with Flash Cs3 Professional: Visual Quickproject Guide
With 75% of U.S. households having Internet connections, more people than ever are going online for information, shopping, or just to surf. The need for interactive and well-designed sites has never been higher, and more people are looking to learn--or improve--their Web skills. For the busy professionals whose boss wants them to jazz up their Web site, or the student burning the midnight oil to put together some Web animations for a class, Creating a Web Site with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Visual QuickProject Guide is just the book they need to start creating Flash sites in an instant. Pared down to just the essentials, this book shows readers who are short on time just what they need to know to accomplish their first project in Flash. Topics covered include using the Flash authoring tool, creating and animating graphics, tweening, loading dynamic data, adding sound and video, plus coverage of new Flash CS3 features: Primitive Object drawing tools, Adobe Illustrator import, Active content detection, and more. It's everything readers need to know to develop their Web site using Adobe Flash! The book's companion Web site offers project files and updates.
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 9, 2007
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David Morris
270 books6 followersDavid Morris, author of Tactical Firearms Training Secrets, is a specialist in practical firearms training and survival techniques. His book, published in 2012, focuses on teaching tactical skills that can be practiced at home using methods like dry firing and airsoft. It emphasizes cost-effective ways to develop advanced shooting skills without extensive range time. Morris is also known for offering advice on broader preparedness topics in other works, including urban survival.
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September 30, 2009
150 pages documenting the process of designing a medium-difficulty website in Flash CS3. The author doesn't show anything that isn't directly required to develop the pre-defined website. He doesn't even take time to explain different types of properties and why he selects one type for one kind of symbols and another for others. By the time he got to XML, the instructions could fry anyone's mind.
First part of the book looks like a step-by-step walkthrough ("click this, type that") for people who've never seen Flash before. It's really easy to understand and the knowledge gained can be reused for other projects.
The second part though was a disappointment. The author sped up as if he had to obey page limit. There was not enough checkpoints and screenshots to compare reader's result with correct version. With the tons of options available for advanced components and imports, it's impossible to use what we learned in other projects without some basic understanding of what the selected options do and why we have to check them.
First major flaw in the book was skipping ActionScript. The author uses Script Assist to generate first pieces of code. It would really help if the code was shown on screenshots, to verify whether we did the clickology right.
Then there was feedback form. It doesn't work, because the author deemed it too complex for this book. Either way, I would appreciate if the code for it was included in an appendix.
The last 20 pages of the book was skipping stuff and selecting random (from reader's point of view) options that do God knows what and then *dun dun dun* the site is supposed to be finished and working. Yay. The end.
I bought this book because I wanted to see how a real website is done in Flash. Now I know, more or less, but a lot of further reading will be required, especially on data binding. The problem with this QuickProject is, it's suited for neither Flash beginners nor advanced developers. Beginners would get lost - unless they employ the mindless clicking strategy. It's not even targeted at the intermediate, who would prefer to know exactly what they are doing.
Summing up, I can recommend this book to no one.
(I gave it bonus points thanks to downloadable files for all stages of the website and live version - which, by the way, looks much better on paper than in the browser.)
First part of the book looks like a step-by-step walkthrough ("click this, type that") for people who've never seen Flash before. It's really easy to understand and the knowledge gained can be reused for other projects.
The second part though was a disappointment. The author sped up as if he had to obey page limit. There was not enough checkpoints and screenshots to compare reader's result with correct version. With the tons of options available for advanced components and imports, it's impossible to use what we learned in other projects without some basic understanding of what the selected options do and why we have to check them.
First major flaw in the book was skipping ActionScript. The author uses Script Assist to generate first pieces of code. It would really help if the code was shown on screenshots, to verify whether we did the clickology right.
Then there was feedback form. It doesn't work, because the author deemed it too complex for this book. Either way, I would appreciate if the code for it was included in an appendix.
The last 20 pages of the book was skipping stuff and selecting random (from reader's point of view) options that do God knows what and then *dun dun dun* the site is supposed to be finished and working. Yay. The end.
I bought this book because I wanted to see how a real website is done in Flash. Now I know, more or less, but a lot of further reading will be required, especially on data binding. The problem with this QuickProject is, it's suited for neither Flash beginners nor advanced developers. Beginners would get lost - unless they employ the mindless clicking strategy. It's not even targeted at the intermediate, who would prefer to know exactly what they are doing.
Summing up, I can recommend this book to no one.
(I gave it bonus points thanks to downloadable files for all stages of the website and live version - which, by the way, looks much better on paper than in the browser.)
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