by Peachpit Press
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| Sales Rank: | 209236 (lower is better) |
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| Label: | Peachpit Press |
| Pages: | 168 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 2007-05-19 |
| Published By: | Peachpit Press |
| ASIN: | 0321503007 |
| Category: | Book |
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Product Description
With 75% of U.S. households having Internet connections, more people than ever are going online for information, shopping, or just to surf. The need for interactive and well-designed sites has never been higher, and more people are looking 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 CS3 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, adding sound and video, plus coverage of new Flash CS3 features: Primitive Object drawing tools, Adobe Illustrator import, Active content detection, and more. 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.
Customer Reviews
Well organized, easy-to-follow "Getting Started" guide - Reviewed on 2008-05-20
3 customers found this review helpful.
I'm a Flash "newbie" who has just completed "Creating a Web Site with Flash CS3 Professional," cover to cover. In my career as a software evangelist for more than 20 years, I have written many tutorials and demonstration scripts similar to this book, which I found to be very well organized. It introduces the reader not only to techniques, but to best practices as well. And, unlike many of the online Flash tutorials in which you create a simple movie with a few animated circles or squares, in this book you create a sophisticated, good looking Web site.
Yes, about a third of the way through the book the author begins to assume your knowledge of things already covered, and it becomes somewhat more difficult to follow the instructions. And a few times I had to go back and redo something I had done incorrectly at first. But in the end I had a fully functioning Web site, and I learned a lot about Flash CS3 along the way.
Avoid This One - Reviewed on 2008-04-19
1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.
After being forced to buy this book for a web design course, about 15 classmates and I slogged through about two-thirds of this book before using it for skeet shooting. I am somewhat familiar with Flash from a 16-hour class, a full-semester course, various training videos on [...], and many web tutorials. Despite this modicum of knowledge, I found this book confusing, frustrating, and just plain wrong.
As other reviewers have indicated, the illustrations are poorly conceived, steps are missing or out of order, and it uses ActionScript 2.0 although this is CS3 version of this book. It's true this is a "project" in Flash, not a systematic teaching text, but even those quite familiar with the program were having trouble following this workbook.
Building an entire website in Flash can yield a very cool presentation (Starbucks and JK Rowling come to mind), but this would probably NOT be the best way to learn Flash initially. This book may have some value to exprienced designers and Flash mavens looking to begin working entirely in Flash, but for most folks, it's a waste of money.
starts off ok.... - Reviewed on 2008-03-25
3 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.
I think the idea of a project guide is sound - walking you through the steps of creating a 'practice' site to get you familiar with the tools, but this particular instance isn't very well done. The book starts off ok, but towards the middle, around chapter 6, it starts to get really confusing, especially in relation to the timeline, one of the key aspects of Flash. The author did a poor job of displaying the workspace - cropped sections of the timeline, covered with activated menus make it hard to see what is going on. Also, the basic layout of the page could use some improvement - small snippets of text jump all over the page, when the instructions are numbered (sometimes they are, sometimes they're not. it's kind of like a game.) the numbers aren't prominent or aligned. Overall - good idea, bad execution. I would love a different book that takes me through the construction of a project, just not this one.
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Book Subjects
- Desktop publishing software
- Publishing on the Internet
- Computers
- Computers - General Information
- Computer Books: General
- Computer Animation
- Computers / Computer Animation
- Desktop Publishing - General
- Internet - Web Site Design
- Flash. (Computer file)
- Web site development
- Computing: Consumer Books ('Technical Trade')
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