You're not a still-wet-behind-the-ears Flash developer, but you're no pure-ActionScript wizard either: At last there's a book that addresses your needs as a budding Flash master. If you've mastered Flash basics and have a good understanding of animation, symbols, and basic ActionScript, this project-based tutorial from the folks at Lynda.com Training is the answer to your prayers. As you follow along with the book's exercises and the CD's QuickTime tutorials, you'll build an entire Web site in Flash--in the process exploring all of the intermediate-level Flash techniques that you've been dying to get your hands on. You'll learn how to dynamically load text and images, create scrollable text, build a preloader, add music and video, build a dynamic slide show, produce a feedback form, create a Flash plug-in detector, and more. Also covered are a slew of workflow enhancements, ActionScript 2.0--the improved ActionScript language introduced in Flash MX 2004--and more.
Shane Rebenschied graduated from the Art Center College of Design in 1998 with an emphasis on traditional and digital media. Since then his work has appeared in the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles and New York annuals, as well as numerous national and international publications and advertising campaigns. He is a fan of old paper and stains, and he can often be found staring at pieces of corroded, rusted metal. Shane is a professional freelance illustrator, Macromedia Flash designer/developer/consultant, and author living somewhere in the Arizona desert. Shane is currently the "Photoshop Guide" at InformIT.com and is also the author of Photoshop Elements 2 Hands-On Training. He maintains an online illustration portfolio at http://www.blot.com and is a partner in the interactive design firm Cloudforge (http://www.cloudforge.com).
Past clients include BBC, Maxim Magazine, Scholastic, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Tor, Harper Collins, Harlequin, Hodder Headline Plc, Summertime Publishing, Harcourt Brace, Ziff Davis, Hanley-Wood LLC, Spirit IC, Backpacker Magazine, X-Files Magazine, McGraw-Hill, Vanderbilt University, Flashforward, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, San Francisco Weekly, and Cleveland Scene.