| If you believe the sky really is the limit when it comes to
creating unparalleled user experiences and applications for
the Web--then Macromedia Flash MX is sure to be your tool of
choice. With Flash, you can integrate video, text, audio,
and graphics into distinctive and compelling web content,
stunningly interactive and expressive user interfaces, and
rich applications for the Internet.
Flash is all about helping you dramatically enhance the user
experience. And Flash Out of the Box is all about helping
you think outside of the box to get there--first, by diving
into the Flash box and then becoming intimately acquainted
with every nook and cranny of it.
In Flash Out of the Box, you'll follow and work with a
simple box through a "day in the life" style journey. You'll
study, use, abuse, and transform the box as you move through
exercises that teach you the basics of Flash, and much more,
in an entertaining, unforgettable, task-oriented fashion.
You'll learn to animate, work with video, load external
assets, draw, mask, modularize, and many other things that
will be essential as you move into more advanced techniques
with other books. It's just you, Flash, and the box,
mastering each technique along the way and adding others in
a fashion that will let you practice and learn
simultaneously.
Most Flash tutorials you've looked at are tool-centric,
focusing on Flash's individual features and how to use them
(an approach that can quickly become tedious), whereas this
innovative, engaging, and motivating book is uniquely
user-centric. That means it concentrates on you and what you
want and need to learn. Each successive lesson anticipates
and builds upon your needs, capabilities, and questions as
you evolve from Flash beginner to Flash master.
Written in a fun and conversational tone, the highly
accessible Flash Out of the Box makes learning Flash MX 2004
intuitive, logical, and, most of all, fun.
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