This is a comprehensive introduction to Macromedia Flash, combined with special beginning-level coverage of ActionScript, Flash's native programming language.

Takes students through a series of tasks which they can complete at their own speed to build up their skills. This book covers eight units of New CLAIT 2006, helping students to learn the skills needed through a number of tasks and simple instructions. It works in conjunction with Office 2003.

Don¡'t spend your time wading through manuals to learn Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Spend it doing what you do best--creating Web pages! With "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Fast & Easy Web Development", you've found a hands-on guide that will help you do just that. By the time you're finished, you'll be creating movies and publishing them to the Web. Less time, less effort, more results! Screen by screen, use this comprehensive Macromedia Flash MX 2004 guide to: *Use layers to build movie content *Create animation by using motion and shape tweening *Add sound and embedded video *Use simple ActionScript *Publish your animations for the Web

You're not a still-wet-behind-the-ears Flash developer, but you're no pure-ActionScript wizard either: At last there's a book that addresses your needs as a budding Flash master. If you've mastered Flash basics and have a good understanding of animation, symbols, and basic ActionScript, this project-based tutorial from the folks at Lynda.com Training is the answer to your prayers. As you follow along with the book's exercises and the CD's QuickTime tutorials, you'll build an entire Web site in Flash--in the process exploring all of the intermediate-level Flash techniques that you've been dying to get your hands on. You'll learn how to dynamically load text and images, create scrollable text, build a preloader, add music and video, build a dynamic slide show, produce a feedback form, create a Flash plug-in detector, and more. Also covered are a slew of workflow enhancements, ActionScript 2.0--the improved ActionScript language introduced in Flash MX 2004--and more.

Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Examples and Trial versions of Flash MX 2004, Canvas 9 Professional Ed., Sorenson Squeeze, Swift 3D, Toon Boom Studio.