Book description
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
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author’s Acknowledgments
- Publisher’s Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
I. Building the Perfect Beast
- 1. Creating the Perfect Flash Site
- 2. Before You Build Your Site
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II. Fleshing Out Your Design
- 3. Creating the Interface
- 4. Getting the Word Out
- 5. Adding Site Navigation
- 6. Get a Move On and Animate the Site
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III. Adding Bells and Whistles
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7. Making Your Site Interactive
- Adding Sizzle to the Steak with ActionScript
- Loading External Movies into Your Flash Site
- Giving Flash a Brain (Variables 101)
- 8. Creating ActionScript Objects
- 9. Going Visual
- 10. Going Commercial
- 11. Creating Flash Eye Candy
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7. Making Your Site Interactive
- IV. Sharing Your Site with the World
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V. The Part of Tens
- 14. Ten Tips for Creating Flash Sites That Work
- 15. Ten Tips for Working with Clients
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16. Ten Tips for Promoting the Site
- Choose a Meaningful Domain Name
- Optimize the HTML Page in Which Your Flash Site Is Embedded
- Add Meta Tags
- Research High-Ranking Web Sites
- Add Alt Text
- Add Text to the HTML Page in Which Your Flash Site Is Embedded
- Tell the World
- Get Web Sites to Link to You
- Promote the Site in Blogs and Forums
- Submit Your Site
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Flash Internet Resources
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Flash Training and Tutorial Resources
- www.computerarts.co.uk
- www.ultrashock.com
- www.EchoEcho.com
- www.ellenfinkelstein.com/flashtips.html
- www.swift3d.com
- www.actionscripts.org
- www.flash-creations.com
- www.communitymx.com
- www.flashstreamworks.com
- www.were-here.com
- www.flashkit.com
- www.lynda.com
- www.flzone.net
- www.moock.org
- www.macromedia.com
- Flash Animation
- Sound
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Flash Training and Tutorial Resources
- Color Insert
- Building Flash® Web Sites For Dummies®
Product information
- Title: Building Flash® Web Sites For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2006
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780471792208
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