Lynda.com Creating a Portfolio Web Site Using Flash CS4 Professional

Author: Paul Trani | Duration (hr:min): 04:04 | Language: English | 1DVD | Released on: 2/17/2010 | Exercise files: Yes | Size ( Compressed ): 991MB | Size ( After Extraction ): 1.01GB

Description
Flash and ActionScript are ideal for creating flexible, easily updatable web sites that are both unique in design and small in file size. In Creating a Portfolio Web Site Using Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Certified Instructor Paul Trani shows how to exploit Flash to create a web site that showcases work to clients and prospective employers. Find out how to add dynamic navigation, animation, and video to a page, and how to load, sort and display XML that enables portfolio content to be updated without opening Flash. This course is designed to take your existing tweening skills and gotoAndPlay code and walk away with a fully functional Flash site. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

* Optimizing and publishing a Flash web site
* Designing a professional photo or video portfolio
* Adding button interactivity
* Adding functionality to portfolio thumbnails
* Displaying content with XML
* Adding audio to portfolio presentations



Table Of Contents
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started
Understanding web design
Creating a Flash file
Importing a design from Photoshop
Optimizing the design

2. Creating a Unique Web Experience
Dynamically loading an image
Loading random images

3. Adding Navigation
Creating menu buttons
Adding functionality to buttons
Adding navigation
Creating transitions
Simplifying code

4. Creating Sections
Creating web site sections
Dynamically loading sections
Linking to web sites and email addresses

5. Creating a Portfolio
Setting up a portfolio
Adding functionality to thumbnails
Allowing for unlimited thumbnails

6. Making a Flexible Portfolio
Benefits of using XML
Loading XML content
Sorting XML content
Displaying XML content
Using XML to create thumbnails
Displaying content with thumbnails

7. Creating a Video Portfolio
Creating and importing video
Adding a Full Screen button
Creating custom video controls
Adding functionality to video thumbnails

8. Adding Audio
Adding audio to buttons
Adding audio to dynamically created buttons

9. Completing the Web Site
Applying professional transitions
Creating a preloader
Publishing a web site

10. Bonus Sites
Reviewing the "corporate" Flash site
Reviewing the "artistic" Flash site

Conclusion
Goodbye


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