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The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript

Sometimes you want a Website to look, well, a little more animated. When that happens it's time to turn to Flash. In The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript by Steve Grosvenor you'll see how to build over 60 real-world Flash applications that can add wow factor to your Web site.

This book is aimed at developers who've got the basics of Flash under their belt but haven't yet delved too far into ActionScript. By providing solutions to some of the most common Flash problems, and addressing frequently desired tasks this book aims to inspire, educate and motivate.

A DMXzone review of the book can be found here and also, courtesy of the publishers Sitepoint, we've got a sample chapter from the book covering Animation Effects available for download here.

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Foundation Flash MX 2004

Foundation Flash MX 2004

If you've never used Flash before and you’re looking for a book that will give you a rock solid grounding in Flash MX 2004, then this is the title for you. This book uses a series of structured exercises to give you the broad, solid foundation knowledge you need to start your exploration of Flash from scratch. Foundation Flash MX 2004 uses a proven sequential, detailed, and accessible tutorial style to ensure that you'll retain your learning and be able to draw on it throughout your Flash career.

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is an exciting product, providing rich creative opportunities for Flash designers and developers at all levels of ability and experience. No single book can hope to provide adequate coverage of all aspects of Flash MX 2004, which is why this book focuses relentlessly on the core skills that you need to get you started: understanding the interface; familiarizing yourself with the creative tools and their capabilities; grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie; getting insight into how to put all the pieces together and hook them up with ActionScript. All these aspects (and much more) are covered in detailed tutorials and exercises, reinforced with a case study that runs throughout the book to apply everything in a real-world context.

Covers both Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004!
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Flash MX Hands On Training

There's no better way for you to get your feet wet using Macromedia Flash MX than with a H.O.T. tutorial, Lynda Weinman's well-loved and unique style of instruction.
With Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On Training, you'll learn core Macromedia Flash MX principles and techniques in a real-world Web design environment. The step-by-step projects build successively, teaching you not only the various features of Macromedia Flash MX, but also how to actually work with the program to achieve results. Each lesson is chock-full of background information, tips, and insight aimed at helping you understand the process as much as the exercise itself. And the accompanying CD-ROM includes both starter files and finished files for each lesson, as well as QuickTime instructional movies, so that you can learn by watching and doing.
Macromedia Flash MX H.O.T. covers all of the most important new features of Macromedia Flash MX, beginning with projects that focus on the MX interface, drawing and color tools, animation basics, tweening, symbols and instances, bitmaps, and more. As the projects progress, you'll tackle more complex techniques, such as working with movie clips, text, sound, and video.
The latter part of the book addresses publishing and managing Macromedia Flash MX content, as well as how to create content by integrating other software into Macromedia Flash MX.

If you're looking for an intelligent, approachable guide for learning Macromedia's latest version of Flash, you'll find lynda's Hands-On Training your e-ticket to Macromedia Flash MX expertise!

Read the chapter 12 "Working with Text" here at UDzone.com

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Macromedia Flash MX: A Beginner's Guide

Macromedia Flash is the hottest tool on the Web because its quick-loading and motion-rich files dovetail perfectly with the Internets mission--to provide visual information over which the viewer has navigational control. Capitalize on Flash motion by tweening animated sequence, then add sophisticated behaviors with ActionScript, the native programming language of Flash. Import, edit, and synchronize sound, and work with all types of graphic files--including bitmap. Optimize your movies, then publish to the Web and to alternative formats. From simple animations you can create in minutes, to morphing text and highly animated movies, this resourceful guide will help you get the most from this awesome motion graphics application.

This Beginners Guide is Designed for Easy Learning:

  • Modules--Each concept is divided into logical modules (chapters), ideal for individualized learning
  • Goals--Each module opens with the specific skills youll have by the end of the module
  • Ask the Experts--Q&A sections throughout are filled with extra information and interesting commentary
  • 1-Minute Drills--Quick self-assessment sections to check your progress
  • Annotated Syntax--Example code annotated with commentary that points to the particular technique illustrated
  • Projects--Exercises contained in each module show how to apply what you are learning
  • Mastery Checks--End-of-module reviews that test your knowledge using short-answer, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and simple coding questions
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Flash 5 Designer's Pack

Flash 5 Designer’s Pack 

Flash 5 Designer’s Pack bundles Coriolis' most popular Flash books together at one low price. Includes 3 books: Flash 5 Visual Insight; Flash ActionScript f/x and Design; and Flash 5 Cartoons and Games f/x and Design. The pack provides a visual reference of Flash 5 features, covering interactive functionality with ActionScript, and how to produce complex techniques such as cartoon animation and games. Includes two CD-ROMs with more than 50 Flash movies, demos of Macromedia products, SmartSound, and Magpie Pro, plus Flash-based games.

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Integrating Flash, Fireworks, Freehand f/x and Design

Integrating Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand f/x & Design
teaches how to bring together Macromedia´s popular Web-design tools into one integrated workflow. Learn how to prepare and export images made in FreeHand for use with Fireworks and Flash. Discover techniques for exporting Fireworks designs compatibly with FreeHand and Flash. And understand how to edit images generated in FreeHand and Fireworks within Flash. This book will allow you to become comfortable using the complete Macromedia environment to develop professional-level Web pages with interactivity. Real-world projects throughout the book enhance skills and techniques. An accompanying CD-ROM includes: trial versions of Fireworks, FreeHand, and Flash; movies demonstrating techniques discussed in the book; clip art demo with 500 pieces; demo plug-ins; and stand-alone, third-party applications.

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Flash XML StudioLab

Authors: Ian Tindale | Paul MacDonald | James Rowley

XML is everywhere. It provides a versatile, cross-platform way of describing data. It's the way in which the information of the future will be stored. However, by itself, XML looks dull. It needs dressing up in diamonds and pearls to bring it to life. How can this be done? By using Flash, that's how.

This book is the foundation for mixing motion graphics with business functionality. Running through the book is a comprehensive case study comprising tutorials using real-world examples that place the technology firmly within the context of professional web and multimedia Flash design.

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Foundation PHP for Flash

Author: Steve Webster

PHP is a powerful, easy-to-learn language, used in around 7 million domains. Multi-platform and open source, when partnered with Flash it can be used to create beautiful, engaging and reactive web experiences.

When also combined with the open source MySQL database solution, PHP becomes your fast track to feeding your Flash movies with real-time dynamic content: rich functionality, elegant simplicity, the beauty of Flash, with the brains of PHP. 

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Foundation ColdFusion for Flash

Author(s): Fiaz Khan | Bryan Mahoney | et al

By combining Macromedia ColdFusion with Flash you can deliver web sites that have the in-your-face visual power of Flash and the seamless dynamic data handling capabilities of ColdFusion.

This book assumes you have a fairly good knowledge of Flash 5 while being a novice user of ColdFusion 5. The designer is led through chapters containing tutorials which progressively build to form a complete real-world case study, including how to create a fully-functioning message forum. The fundamentals of ColdFusion will be introduced particularly within the context of their use in a professional setting. 

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Rich Media StudioLab: Video and Sound in Flash

Authors: Tia Aleo | Kristian Besley | Sham Bhangal | Murat Bodur | Martin Dahlhauser | Jorge Diogo | Fred Fauquette | Paul Logan | Alex MacLeod | Doug McDermott | Keran McKenzie | Robin Mackay | Alex Ogle | Darren Smith | Kevyn Smith | Mike Tucker | Jerome Turner | Mark Welland

With its low bandwidth and tiny file sizes, it is often wrongly assumed that sound and video can never achieve a really high level of sophistication in Flash animations. With competitive motion graphics techniques rapidly evolving, there is a constantly growing demand for the next stage in sophisticated design – video and sound.

This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing you at the extreme edge of creative web design. Illustrating the application of such tools as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge, Wildform, and RealPlayer with Flash, this book shows you how to test the boundaries of Flash and suggests ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the realms of Shockwave.

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