Flash: Code for Designers


Chapter Overview | Code for Designers

Code for Designers using Adobe Flash with AS3.0

Inside this eBook, you will learn:

  • Start by building a stronger foundation with ActionScript 3.0 Coding.
  • Built efficient animated transitions between pages using variables.
  • Learn optimization tips for graphics, external movies, and proper uses of preloaders.
  • Create code-based animation to provide interaction for both your navigation and content.
  • Learn additional elements: emailer forms, full-screen presentations, clocks & timers, and right-click customization.

This is more than just an eBook teaching you how to develop web sites using Adobe Flash as the lessons have been created to really help you understand this material. In addition to the written concepts there are also video tutorials and interactive presentations to help you learn in a number of different ways. Matthew Leach provides a fun and straightforward method to help you create your own professional web sites with animation and navigation using ActionScript 3.0. His practical methods cut all the fat from the typical textbook paperweights to focus on the most important practices used by today’s professionals to help you create interactive Flash sites in no time.

eBook Examples

Matthew Leach created each of these examples to showcase his programming techniques within this eBook. These are just some of the things that you’ll learn how to create.

Chapter 3: Animated Transitions
Chapter 5: Code-Based Animation

Chapter 4: Preloader

Chapter 6: Right-Click Menu
Chapter 5: Code-Based Animation

Note: These three examples will open a new browser window.

Chapter 6: Full Screen Flash
Chapter 6: Flash & JavaScript

Chapter 6: Full Screen/Code-Based Animation

Designer Examples

These are student designer’s Flash work using the techniques and lessons taught in this eBook.
These project examples will open a new browser window.

Sheryl Burns - Animated Transitions
Sheryl Burns - Optimized Files with Preloader

Sheryl Burns - Code-Based Animation

Scott Rahe - Code-based Animation, External Files/Preloader, Email Form

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Matthew Leach has a way of breaking down these complicated concepts into bite-sized pieces that almost start to seem simple after a little practice.

- Justin Pharmer

About the Author

Matthew Leach

Matthew Leach, one of today’s top college design professors, will teach you how to create fully functional Flash web sites using Adobe Flash with Actionscript 3.0. He has been teaching Adobe Flash at the college level for more than ten years and has the industry experience to teach what designers really need/want to understand.

Matthew has a keen sense of making the complicated easy and the difficult fun. Because he has spent so much time working with students both in a classroom, and teaching them in an online environment, he has blended all the best technology features with the most helpful lectures to help designers learn Adobe Flash in a simple and straightforward manner.

Matthew’s belief is that, “Graphic Design and Web Development isn’t difficult, but it can be a challenge trying to sift though all the confusing information without a qualified mentor.” These ebooks he has written are his connection to sitting with you, walking you though the process, and pointing out the most important tips along the way while teaching you how to identify and fix your own mistakes.