Macromedia (Adobe) Flash (MX 2004 & v8)

Macromedia Flash is a well-known tool for the creation of animated and interactive website content. I offer training to empower you to gain a good understanding of the tool.

Flash is a very powerful software capable of producing simple banner animations through to full blown interactive applications. It is perhaps the most powerful of Adobe's tools. There are often dozens of ways of achieving the same result in Flash. Any method I show you is just one of many. Equally, Flash is often regarded as having a very steep learning curve. My job is to help you over the worst of it!

Overview of the typical subjects I can help with

• Overview of when to use Flash & what it can do
• Setting up a new file & it's properties
• Understanding the differences between vectors and bitmaps
• Understanding aliased and non-aliased fonts
• Importing images, video and audio
• Updating externally edited images and audio
• Overview of the architecture of a Flash movie
• Understanding the main timeline and sub-timelines
• Using the drawing tools
• Understanding and creating Graphics, Buttons and Movie symbols
• Editing Graphics, Buttons and Movies in place
• Animating elements
• Using fonts in Flash
• Loading and unloading layered movies
• Setting up loading bars (progress bars)
• Setting up basic actionscript on frames
• Setting up basic navigation actionscript on buttons
• Controlling animations with simple button and frame actionscripts
• Sending emails from Flash
• Linking to websites and external files
• Publishing Flash movies
• Inserting Flash into an HTML page with Dreamweaver

Please note: I am not officially accredited by Macromedia to provide Macromedia Flash training. The skills I teach are those any experienced user of the software should be able to share.