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With most U.S. households having Internet connections, more people than ever are looking to develop their own sophisticated Web sites. The need for easy-to-grasp information on how to make an interactive and well-designed site has never been higher as more people need 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 CS4 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, and adding sound and video, plus coverage of new Flash CS4 features. 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.
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With most U.S. households having Internet connections, more people than ever are looking to develop their own sophisticated Web sites. The need for easy-to-grasp information on how to make an interactive and well-designed site has never been higher as more people need 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 CS4 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, and adding sound and video, plus coverage of new Flash CS4 features. 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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first Flash book I have used, so I am unable to make comparisons with other books available. The aim of this publication is to walk you through the creation of a website, making use of various aspects of the Flash CS4 program along the way. Unfortunately, there are two factors which let the book down. First, there are several errors or ambiguous wordings which cause a complete novice like me to stumble. I reached page 38 without a problem but then had to resort to Adobe's online user guide to find out what precisely the text was trying to describe. The next problem was on page 77, followed by one on page 85, a minor omission for Mac users on page 87 and then a confusion on page 97. I give you this list to indicate what you will be up against. All these errors or omissions can be overcome by a reasonably intelligent reader like myself. Unfortunately on pages 106-107 there is a problem with the listed html which demands specialist knowledge rather than just intelligence to circumvent and it was here that my relationship with the book came to an abrupt halt. And this brings me to the second problem. Often the reader follows specific instructions which are not given a wider context or explanation. I felt I was just repeating them "parrot-fashion". Thanks to the book, I have now created Flash CS4 animations and half a website but I feel sure that there are better books out there which offer greater insight and explanation and are almost certainly more ably sub-edited. It's unacceptable to allow any book - but especially an instructional book aimed at beginners - to reach publication in this "first draft" state. Disappointing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The manual is not bad, I also have the previous edition of it (for Flash 2004), but I have to say - the older one was a bit more friendly and easier to read for some reason...
Format:Paperback
The positive things about this book are:
1. It is flabbergastingly cheap.
2. It is thin and compact.
3. You learn to make all that's needed to create a fancy web-site in
relatively little time.
Things that may be obstacles:
1 Sometimes, the text is a bit ambiguous. For instance, sometimes it says to add a
framelabel, without saying in what object to add it.
2.Because of that, to get through the book quickly, I think it is
mandatory to have some object-oriented programming experience.
The book is primarily focussed on getting lots of results in a fast way.
However, that result is not necessarily the most flexible, clear and maintainable result.
My final conclusion:
I recommend this book to people with some OO programming experience, that like to learn Flash CS4
and ActionScript 3.0, as a first primer.
I recommend after reading this book to move on to a more in-detail book about Action Script 3.0
to learn how some things can be done in a more flexible, maintainable way.
1. It is flabbergastingly cheap.
2. It is thin and compact.
3. You learn to make all that's needed to create a fancy web-site in
relatively little time.
Things that may be obstacles:
1 Sometimes, the text is a bit ambiguous. For instance, sometimes it says to add a
framelabel, without saying in what object to add it.
2.Because of that, to get through the book quickly, I think it is
mandatory to have some object-oriented programming experience.
The book is primarily focussed on getting lots of results in a fast way.
However, that result is not necessarily the most flexible, clear and maintainable result.
My final conclusion:
I recommend this book to people with some OO programming experience, that like to learn Flash CS4
and ActionScript 3.0, as a first primer.
I recommend after reading this book to move on to a more in-detail book about Action Script 3.0
to learn how some things can be done in a more flexible, maintainable way.
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