Idiot's Guide to Flash 5

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Macromedia Flash 5 teaches you the basics of using Flash 5 to create stimulating and action-packed Web pages. Whether you're a novice or more experienced user, this step-by-step, light-hearted approach will ease you into the world of Flash-y Web-page-building--with all the bells and whistles of streaming audio and video. The book gives an introduction to Flash 5, including basic instruction in creating art, working with layers, working with symbols, creating buttons, simple interactivity, creating forms, simple ActionScripting, tweening, masking, publishing and much more. The audience for the "idiot" and "dummy" schools of instruction books is pretty well defined--either you like them or you don't. As with others of this fashion, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Macromedia Flash 5 uses "bite-size chunks" to teach, instead of a longer tutorial style or a concise step-by-step. Learn flash in a fun environment.