Flash Navigation Resources
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Flash : BooksBeginner Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Flash is the hottest tool on the Web because its quick loading and motion rich files dovetail perfectly with the Internet's mission: to provide visual information over which the viewer has navigational control. Capitalize on Flash motion by tweening animated sequence, then add sophisticated behaviors with ActionScript, the native programming language of Flash. Import, edit, and synchronize sound, and work with all types of graphic files, including bitmap. Optimize your movies, then publish to the Web and to alternative formats. From simple animations you can create in minutes, to morphing text and highly animated movies, this resourceful guide will help you get the most from this awesome motion graphics application. The book covers the basic concepts behind Flash: learning the work environment; drawing; creating animations; using motion guides, masks, symbols, imported graphics, and sound; publishing movies; and using ActionScript.
- Cost: $20.99
- Pages: 402
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0072222662
Flash 5 Quick Reference
Flash 5 For Dummies Quick Reference will walk you through each step to create dynamic Web animation quickly. This book will guide you through the steps to using the drawing tools in Flash and your finished project will look as if a professional developer built the page. The easy-to-use lay-flat comb binding book allows you to view the steps needed to create a unique site hands-free and concentrate on the creativity of your page. A quick reference for using Flash 5 software, showing how to harness the power of its animation capabilities. Quick information on working with libraries, timelines, panels, drawing tools, and creating layers, buttons, movies, and instances. Written in a humorous style for a dash of fun. Plastic-comb binding. The quick reference is concise, "get it done", information, helpful alphabetical organization, convenient lay-flat binding, icons and other navigational aids, and much much more.
- Cost: $12.99
- Pages: 200
- Edition: Spiral edition
- ISBN: 076450780X
Flash 99% Good
Within the professional Web design community, nothing is as important as attracting visitors and keeping them informed, happy, and ready to visit again. Flash is a key player in this equation, with the capacity to either transform your Web site into an engaging one, rich with motion and life, or mire it in overwhelming design and navigational difficulties. By exploring the relationship between the designer and usability expert, Award-winning Flash designer Kevin Airgid and widely respected information architect Stephanie Reindel present a solid program for conceiving, designing, testing, and succeeding with Flash design. Flash 99% Good: A Guide to Macromedia Flash Usability shows you definitively how integrate eye-popping visuals with friendly, easy-to-follow navigation. Discover expert approaches to typograhy, graphics, and animation; Achieve optimal results with the right mix of design and usability; and understand your target audience.
- Cost: $31.49
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0072222875
Flash ActionScript for Designers
One of the brightest stars in the Flash development world is a designer, Brendan Dawes. DragSlideFade is the number one book on Action Scripting for non-programmers because he takes an at-times complex technology and makes it cool to learn for those of us who love actionscripting's power, but who can't stand those dull, gray programming books. If you're a professional designer who needs a thoughtful, visually stimulating access into ramping up on the power beneath Flash's hood, get this book. Presents ten practical techniques for adding ActionScript code to enhance Flash web design projects. The author explains how to drag and drop movie clips, create sliding panels for navigation, control sound, capture user input, add typographic effects, and read XML files as a source for buttons and menus. Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, an interactive agency based in Manchester in the U.K. Some clients are Disney and Coca-Cola.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 296
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735710473
Flash Design for Mobile Devices
The first book dedicated to the Flash design and implementation issues of wireless appliances, including PDAs, cell phones, and other small-screen devices! Macromedia has released a Flash player for Microsoft Pocket PCs, and the coming rollout of 2.5G and 3G wireless services is certain to stimulate demand for jazzy interactive interfaces. This guide shows Flash developers how to create compelling Flash content for the tiny screens of cell phones and PDAs, from menu and icon design to navigation systems. Understand the wireless revolution and the mobile mindset; Delve into the information architecture, interface design, and editorial style for mobile devices; Zero in on proven solutions for screen layout, color, typography, and iconography; Find out how to integrate video and sound content; Get up to speed on location technology and multimodal (voice and data) applications; and Discover how to test, load, and distribute your Flash content!
- Cost: $24.49
- Pages: 352
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764536478
Flash MX Complete Reference
Get comprehensive coverage of the all new features and expanded functionality of the latest version of Flash. This authoritative guide can show you how to use Flash with confidence to create stunning and compact navigation interfaces, plus long-form animation, and other effects on the Web. For users at every level, this soup-to-nuts resource is essential reading. Whether it's in showcasing graphics or text, animation or movies, sound or interactivity, Flash is among a small handful of elite applications that have fueled the spectacular emergence of the Web. Macromedia Flash MX: The Complete Reference contains seven distinct sections and nearly 30 chapters devoted to delivering information on every aspect of this powerful tool. From graphics and animation, to interactivity, to the ActionScript language, learn to use all aspects of Flash and see for yourself why Flash is among the most successful and popular Web applications.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 808
- Edition: Book and CD-ROM edition
- ISBN: 0072134860
Flash MX Effects and Movies
Flash can be used for many purposes, but making visually stunning effects to impress your boss, your friends, and anyone who looks at your site is one of the most rewarding. The eight leading designers in this full color book take these effects apart, showing you how to adapt your basic Flash knowledge to achieve results exceeding anything you thought possible. The effects stay true to the tried and tested friends of ED design-centric approach, with full exercises and explanations for each effect. Topics include: ground-breaking site navigation; a dynamic MP3 jukebox; cartoon animation; and Flash math visual effects. Learn how to create the most requested and popular Flash effects in action today, including visual effects and actual design techniques. All you need to use this book is a knowlegde of the Flash MX interface, and some imagination. So sit back, relax, and open up your mind to the visual potential of Flash MX.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 272
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 1903450942
Flash MX, Remoting, ASP.NET
Macromedia Flash MX has become the professional standard authoring tool for producing high-impact web experiences. Whether you are creating animated logos, web site navigation controls, long-form animations, entire Flash web sites, or web applications, you'll find the power and flexibility of Flash MX ideal for injecting energy into your websites. Flash MX along with its newest companion - Flash Remoting - easily integrates with existing web production workflow, and provides powerful development tools for creating advanced web applications and integrating with other server side applications and Web services. In this article, Pallav Nadhani will look at how Flash Remoting helps to make our lives easier in terms of Flash application development. To work with Flash Remoting, you need to have the following installed on your development machine: Macromedia Flash MX, The Flash Remoting components, Microsoft .NET SDK, Flash Remoting for .NET.
- Cost: $8.00
- Pages: 32
- Edition: e-book (Acrobat Reader)
- ISBN: B0000713V0
Flash Web Design
Flash is the perfect tool for creating immersive, interactive, and animated Web site design, and Flash Web Design teaches you to use it to its full potential. The Essentials section covers the basics of Flash production, illuminating how and why Flash works. The second section is a series of case studies and deconstructions based on projects and problems the author has faced with his clients. Flash Web Design is geared toward professional Web designers and content creators who want to make their site stand out from the typical noise of the Web. This book assumes readers have some experience with Web design and animation, but it does not assume previous work with Flash. Projects include type animation, navigational screens, working with wireframe art, converting vectorized video, working with streaming MP3 audio, using action scripting for interactivity, and going from Freehand sketches to finished Flash movies.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 256
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0735708967
3D Environment
The 3DEnvironment is a Flash component that allows you to build 3D interactive interfaces and environments in Flash. Built-in depth and perspective effects create the illusion of three dimensions. Customizable controls and full keyboard and mouse interactivity enable movement and rotation of the environment. Use simple graphic or movie clip symbols as well as external objects and animated movie clips. Requires no 3D modeling. Features: Create realistic 3D environments with depth and perspective; Build unique interactive interfaces; Custom keyboard controls for users to navigate around the 3D environment; Mouse wheel support for navigation; Move objects in the environment with built-in tweening and customizable tween duration; Rotate the world around all three axes (x, y and z); Camera controls for panning and zooming to change the perspective on the environment Add objects through an intuitive user interface, or external XML file.
- Cost: $59.95
- Platforms: All
Flashloaded
Flashloaded offers innovative and affordable products to enhance your Adobe/Macromedia Flash projects. Their products are easy to use, add exciting new features to your web sites and save you time. They're also backed by the best support in the industry. Flash components include CMS, menus, navigation, sound and video, 3D, charts, and other various products. Specific flash components include: flash text editors, bounce menus, drop menus, iconbar menus, scroll menus, text menus, zoom menus, 360 pan viewers, advanced tree, blog scroller, flash tickers, flash tooltips, page flippers, thumbnailers, flv players, sound players, advanded loaders, flash banner rotators, bit component sets, dnd list, forms, flash timers, image loaders, mdi containers, flash rss readers, speed controllers, xml calendars, 3d planes, bar charts, flash charts, line charts, pie charts, and stacked percent charts.
- Cost: Varies
- Platforms: All
FlipNavigation
Create and deploy entire Flash websites, widgets, banners or slideshows with flip transitions, using images, SWFs and movieclips, with no coding. Flip effects include easing, bounce and blur. The menu and button components (provided) allow you to easily flip through the pages of your site. Includes built-in preloader. Available for ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. Features include: Content can be external images, SWFs or library symbols; Define content and menu items through XML, Component Inspector or ActionScript; Content can be flipped horizontally, vertically or randomly; Flip transition effects: easing, bounce and blur; Mouse over effects: zoom or bounce; Customizable speed, friction and effect intensity; Built-in preloader (preload all content or load on demand); Resize options for content: scale to fit, scale to fill or original size; Alignment options: top, center, bottom, left, right; Flip to content using skinnable menu or buttons.
- Cost: $49.95
- Platforms: All
GridNavigation
A thumbnail based navigational system or a portfolio/photo gallery in a grid or pyramid style layout. The thumbnail content is clickable and zooms in to display the selected full size content while the other thumbnails are pushed aside. Content can be external images, animated SWFs or movie clips. Content can be added or changed directly in the Component Inspector, through ActionScript or using an external XML file. Available for ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0. Features include: Display thumbnails of images, SWFs or movie clips in a grid or pyramid like layout; Built-in blur effect for smooth transitions from low res to high res content; Layout options: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right; Number of columns and rows can be manually or automatically set when using the grid layout; Content, menu items and settings may be defined through XML, Component Inspector or ActionScript; Automatically resizes thumbnails and content.
- Cost: $44.95
- Platforms: All
PageFlipper
Engage your users with truly intuitive browsing experiences with the pageFlipper, a Flash component that enables magazine style flipping of pages. Sensational when used for company brochures, family photo albums or editorial style content. With realistic page turning effects introduce an enhanced sense of interaction to your users. Key features: Click and drag mouse interaction; Use Movieclips, external images or SWFs for pages; Add pages using XML, Actionscript or the Component Inspector panel; Load pages immediately or on demand; Add sound effects to page flips; Customizable look and feel; Custom background; Option to automatically scale pages to fit; Automated customizable page numbering; Built-in preloader; Only 11kb. Allows you to load external content as soon as the component appears on the stage or only when required, reducing load times and bandwidth usage. Most aspects of the component are fully controllable with actionscript.
- Cost: $34.95
Flash Web Menu
Flash Web Menu is a powerful, fully-customizable and multi-level menu solution for your web sites or flash navigation. It's written in Flash which functionally is capable of doing anything in a menu written in DHTML. It is an easy-to-use menu component which can be configurated simply in an XML file. It can be customized by changing the text, font, link, background, and border style. The designer can place the menu to relative position or absolute position, and therefore the menu can be easily located at any place of the web page or flash.
- Cost: $19.00 - $39.00
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: All
Flashation Flash Menu Builder
Flashation is a Flash button and menu builder. Flashation let you create hundreds of impressive and professional animated Flash web menus and buttons for your website. It's fast and easy to use. Flashation is extremely user-friendly. Flashation offers animated Flash buttons with a wonderful after-glow effect. There is a wide variety of buttons that will look good on any corporate or personal website. You'll figure it out after just a few minutes of playing around with it. No Flash or programming skills are required.
- Cost: $29.95
- Version: 1.32
- Platforms: Windows
Amara Flash Menu Maker
With Amara Flash Menu Maker you can create professional Flash buttons and menus for your web site fast and easily. Create navigation bars, scrolling menus and sub menus in minutes for your website or Flash project. Features include: Sub menus; Unlimited text length; Scrolling menus; Background colors; Border colors; Import background pictures; Type face choices; Many color choices; Unlimited text; Insert background music; Movie dimensions; WYSIWYG interface; Import button sound effects; Font size; Small filesizes; and Animated sub menus.
- Cost: Free/$29.95
- Platforms: Windows
Frunder Flash Menu 2 - FM2
FM2 is a Professional Flash Menu with sliding submenus that is fully customizable without using Macromedia Flash. Dynamically change text, color, menu options, transparency, border options, add custom images and so much more. Over 100 options. Frunder Flash Menu 2 is built for the developer who wants dynamic Flash Navigation but either does not own Flash or needs an instantly editable and dynamic Flash menu. Programmers with XML experience can customize FM2 to build menu options at runtime unique to each user.
- Cost: Trial / $19.95
- Version: 2.0
- Platforms: All
KoolMoves
Flash animation is easy with KoolMoves. It is ideal for creating animated web pages, animated text effects, flash banners, multimedia slide shows, spalsh pages, flying logos, complex navigation systems, interactive games, character animation, and intro pages. It features libraries of text effects templates, web page templates, vector clip art and buttons, action script text effects, transition effects, spin and rotate effects. For advanced users, it even has Flash MX action scripting, dynamic text fields, and bones character animation.
- Cost: $39.09
- Version: 4.1
- Platforms: Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP
QS Flash Magic Menu Builder
This component has been designed for use with Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004. Key features: Editing Software and Component included; Full customizable buttons library; Quickly loaded by browsers; More than 40 FXs, custom links (8 types); Easy integration with ASP/PHP/.NET-Horizontal; Vertical-Free Position styles; Custom sub-menus; Multiple menus on the same FLA; Free buttons, free sounds and more; Build menus in under 3 minutes; Full Customization; No ActionScript is needed to build your menu; Custom Sounds.
- Cost: $30.00
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Windows
VRbrochure Project Studio
Produce graphically rich VRbrochure Flash Virtual Tours with 360 panoramic images, 3D Objects and photos. Includes virtual walkthrough capabilities and floor plan or screen hotspot navigation. VR Brochure takes the headache out of designing complex virtual tours in flash. Incorporate 3d objects, still images and panoramas into complex flash virtual tours without coding. Publish VRbrochure tours for both Flash and Java viewing; Integrate multimedia image types, including 360 panoramic & 3D objects; library of VRbrochure template designs.
- Cost: $249.00
- Version: 2.0.1
- Platforms: Windows
Best Flash Animation Sites
Showcase of the best Flash animation sites, pixel fonts and resources as voted by the community. Find inspiration for your Flash projects. Categories include: Best Flash Sites, Showcase Archive, Pixel Fonts, Software Reviews, Resources, and Articles. Specific topics include: Photographic artwork, vector graphics artwork, cartoons and anime, corporate, e-commerce, educational, experimental, Flash 3D, games, motion graphics, navigation, technical merit, typography, video, wingdings and symbols, forums, tutorials, flash remoting, and flash humor.
- Cost: Free
FlashSources
FlashSources is an online resource site for Flash Components such as Flash files, Flash Menus, Flash Galleries, Flash Effects, Flash Banners and more. At FlashSources, they specialize in creating the visual tools companies need to achieve their marketing objectives. Whether you're interested in designing a website, developing a sales brochure, or establishing a new corporate identity, they can help you create the professional image you need to take your business to the next level. Flash resources they have include horizontal navigation, vertical navigation, image navigation, mask effects, motion effects, movie clip effects, text effects, flash banners, rolling banners, side banners, and flash galleries. They also offer a premium membership which gives you access to all of their premium sources downloads. They do custom work as well including flash design, website design and development, and online shopping malls.
- Cost: Varies
