Foundation Macromedia Flash MX - Softcover

Besley, Kristian; Bhangal, Sham; Farr, Amanda

9781590592298: Foundation Macromedia Flash MX

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590592298 ISBN 13: 9781590592298

Publisher: Apress, 2003

If you've never used Flash before, this is the book for you. It 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 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 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, 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.

If you're looking for a book that'll give you a rock-solid grounding in Flash MX, then this is the title for you.

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From the Publisher:

If you've read *Foundation Flash 5*, you should buy our *Flash MX Upgrade Essentials* book instead of this one."This book caters for web designers for who are adopting Flash for the first time with Flash MX. It's based on the highly-successful and much-acclaimed Foundation Flash 5, and uses the same heavy-duty, sequential, detailed and thorough tutorial method, but it's fully updated to cover the new and enhanced features in MX. If you're coming to Flash completely from scratch, this book will give you the broad and solid foundation for exploring MX's higher-end features.

About the Author:

Kristian Besley has worked with multimedia for three years, but has been creative with computers for much longer. He currently develops Flash-based material within an educational environment. This material includes interactive presentations to illustrate how scientific things work, as well as graphical user interfaces and tools allowing web-based content creation with basic computer skills. He was a contributing author on the seminal Flash Math Creativity, and many other friends of ED books. In 2002, he launched the world's first bi-annual HTML markup-based TableArt competition. The competition was an unbelievable success.

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