Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies [Paperback]

Doug Sahlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0471792209 | ISBN-13: 978-0471792208 | Edition: 1

You can get Flash-y with your Web site -- here's how!


Know your audience, plan your site, and make it both interactive and cool

Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site. With Flash, you can add interactivity, video, an exciting and easy-to-navigate interface, and eye candy like custom cursors and flying text. This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, so you can have your site up and running in no time.

Discover how to
* Build an interface with custom buttons and menus
* Include animation and soundtracks
* Dress up your text
* Create tween animations
* Create ActionScript objects
* Test and publish your site

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From the Back Cover

You can get Flash-y with your Web site — here's how!

Know your audience, plan your site, and make it both interactive and cool

Gone are the days when you could get by with a boring Web site. With Flash, you can add interactivity, video, an exciting and easy-to-navigate interface, and eye candy like custom cursors and flying text. This friendly guide makes Flash fun and easy, so you can have your site up and running in no time.

Discover how to

• Build an interface with custom buttons and menus
• Include animation and soundtracks
• Dress up your text
• Create tween animations
• Create ActionScript objects
• Test and publish your site

About the Author

Doug Sahlin is a photographer, videographer, and Web designer living in Lakeland, Florida. He has written 16 books on computer graphics and office applications and co-authored 3 books on Photoshop and 1 book on digital video. Recent titles include Digital Photography QuickSteps and How To Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 7.0. Many of his books have been bestsellers at Amazon.com. Doug’s books have been translated into five languages. He uses Flash 8.0 Professional to create Web sites and multimedia presentations for his clients.

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (May 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471792209
• ISBN-13: 978-0471792208
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.7 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #863,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doug Sahlin is a graphic and website designer, photographer, and the author of several books, including How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 8.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick Answers, March 20, 2007

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K. Costello (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies (Paperback)

This is the book I reach for when I'm looking for quick concise descriptions. I almost use it as an extended glossary. The index is great. There are subjects I find in the index that I cannot find in the indexes of more comprehensive instructional books, nor the online Flash help. I can almost always find what I'm looking for. I thought I would outgrow this book as my skills increased but I find I still use it all the time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A usefull reference - but far from complete and not always accurate, May 31, 2009

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Scott Ingerson (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies (Paperback)

A good reference for beginners in flash.

Plenty of useful information. Most of it is pretty easy to digest. Some info though, I found to be inaccurate or misleading, so I would certainly not recommend that this be your only reference!!!

Also, the author seemed to have a hard time writing more then two sentences without some sort of attempt to be clever or funny. I find this pretty annoying.

I recommend learning Flash from a variety of sources. This could be one of those sources, but again, I don't recommend that you trust it too much.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Book tutorials are soooo yesterday..., December 28, 2009

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EuroCompton (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies (Paperback)

First of all this book is written for Flash 8 - not CS3 or CS4. So this book is antiquated. Second of all I just ordered a 4 hour training disc that makes it sooo much faster and easier to learn and understand Flash. It's like sitting in a classroom and learning from a teacher, only better and at your own pace. I am officially done reading books. From now on it's video tutorials on disc. They're more expensive but WELL worth it, and you can just resell them on Amazon.