Chapter 20. Making Your First Flash CS3 Project
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating a Main Timeline layout
Making an image slide show
Adding navigation elements to a presentation
Using the TextArea component
Creating an effect with a custom BlurFader component
Inserting named anchors into your Flash movie
Adding accessibility information to movie elements
Now that you've learned the basic principles behind Flash actions, you probably want to start creating a presentation to put on a Web site. This chapter integrates several basic production principles and teaches you how to make a simple interactive Flash movie that has basic navigation and text functionality. After you have completed this chapter's lessons, you'll be more prepared for the nitty gritty of ActionScript in Part VII of the book.
The Main Timeline as the Site Layout
Before you can start creating a Flash project, you need to know what you're communicating—what is the basic concept of the experience? Is this an all-Flash Web site? Is this a Flash animation that introduces some other type of content (HTML, Shockwave Director movies, and so on)? For the purposes of this chapter, you create a Flash movie for a basic all-Flash presentation. In a sense, this project will be the Flash equivalent of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Let's look at the completed project (shown in Figure 20.1) that you will create in this chapter.
Note
In a Web browser, open the main.html
document, located in the ch20
folder of this book's CD-ROM. This movie contains ...
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