Flash: Web Design & Animation
Simplifying the Complex.


Web Design & Animation | Adobe Flash using AS3.0

Inside this eBook, you will learn:

  • Professional tips to create professional illustrations using the drawing tools.
  • The easiest techniques to create fun animations.
  • The most efficient uses of code to create interactive web sites.
  • The most organized methods of posting your work on your web hosting.

This is more then 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 straight forward 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.

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Within the lessons this eBook, you’ll learn all the detailed lessons, design advice, and debugging suggestions to help you develop the following projects:

Project 1: Illustration

Create a Flash portal that will link to the additional projects, host it on your own web server, and create a vector-based illustration.

Flash Illustration by Jake Soreide
Flash Illustration by Lisa Lindsey

Flash Illustration by Josh Bergstrand

Project 2: Animation

Animation type based on a phrase, song lyrics, a poem, a describing sentence from a story. Use audio to help with your animation timing or add subtle sound effects.

Flash Animation by Bryan Hogg
Flash Animation by Jared Cole

Flash Animation by Christina Paradis

Project 3: Navigation

Design a Flash web site with working navigation using ActionScript 3.0 based on a food product as the focus for a design company.

Flash Web Site by Sheryl Burns
Flash Web Site by JR Goodwin

Flash Web Site by Kelli Parker

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.












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