Showcases the computer animation program's newly designed interface while explaining how to build interactive Web sites using innovative graphics, text, and animated images.

Because most people don't have the luxury of sitting down uninterrupted for hours at a time to learn Flash, the 10 Minute Guide to Macromedia Flash 5 focuses on the most often used features, covering them in lessons designed to take 10 minutes or less to complete. Ten minutes is all you need to learn how to Create and edit graphics Import graphics Use text Use layers Attach actions and sounds

A guide to getting a quick start with Macromedia Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh, with an easy reference-like format that lets the reader look up what they want to learn and get straight to work. Uses pictures to teach concepts instead of wordy explanations.

This resource provides information on Flash 5's advanced features and development tools. It also helps in integrating Flash with a host of applications and languages, including databases, 3D graphic generators and PHP.

Flash 5 For Dummies provides a light-hearted but thorough reference for anyone who wants to understand this bestselling tool quickly and in plain English. The authors cover each topic simply but in enough detail to make it useful. You will be able to quickly find any topic they need and get back to work without delay (not that we have anything against coffee breaks). The book is in the order you would use the program to create Web animation, also progressing from simple to complex. Beginners will be able to read the book from start to finish while intermediate users can look up only the sections they want. Flash has a high cross-platform profile. Luckily, one of the authors (Gurdy) is a Mac freak; the other (Ellen) is a PC stalwart.

Get project-oriented, lesson-based Flash 5 training from the training experts at Macromedia. Appropriate for both beginners and more experienced Flash Web developers, this book leads readers through a series of manageable, task-oriented lessons, using the practice files from the CD-ROM.