The course explores intermediate-level Flash and ActionScripting with a focus on web design.

Proposed class subjects:

• Web Mock Up
• Navigation
• Working with Media
• Transitions with Tween Class
• Dynamically loading images
• Contact Form
• Preloader
• streaming video
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and Flash
• JPEG slideshows
• forms
• advanced 2D character animation

Needed basic Flash concepts to be successful in this class

• You should understand what each tool does and how to create motion and shape tweens
• You should understand symbols and their differences
• You should have basic ActionScript knowledge, such as stop, play, and gotoAndStop

 

Over the next 15 weeks you will be creating a Flash web site. Either you will be creating your online portfolio or you will be doing another site approved by the instructor. Most weeks you will implement what you learn to build another part of our site. At the end of the semester you will have a fully functional flash web site. We will work together to educate and critique each others web site functionality and design.

There are no mandatory books. I will provide many recommendation for books. The class will be strongly based on the Lynda.com online video training, "Creating a First Web Site with Flash CS4 Professional".

Previous Student Websites

www.susanglairon.com

www.bouldernewbie.com

 

Flash in the workforce

http://www.8plus9.com/

http://www.whoswestudios.com/flashsite.html

http://www.adobe.com/brilliant/

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-flash-sites

 

Show WhosWe stuff.

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