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Adobe® Flash®:
Developing Interactive Web Content

Course 984 • 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To

  • Build and deploy cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and content with Adobe Flash
  • Create engaging animations to attract and retain users
  • Generate interactive dynamic content and special effects with ActionScript
  • Connect to relational databases and XML datasets to build real-time, data-driven applications
  • Encode and deliver streaming video to create innovative, mixed-media content
  • Integrate and distribute Flash content on multiple platforms, including DVD, web and Mobile

Course Benefits

Rich Internet Applications demand sophisticated content and delivery methods. Adobe Flash is a leading development tool that provides organizations with a fast, fluid environment for creating interactive applications that enhance the end user experience. This hands-on course provides the essential skills necessary to develop, deploy and secure content and data-driven applications, including animation, streaming video and special effects.

Who Should Attend

Web developers, graphic designers and those who want to add Adobe Flash functionality to their sites. A background in web development is helpful but not required.

Hands-On Training

Hands-on exercises provide experience creating and delivering Flash applications, including:
  • Creating an application framework with buttons, graphics and sounds
  • Integrating with Photoshop to manipulate bitmap graphics
  • Building animations with motion and special effects
  • Adding interactive functionality with ActionScript
  • Connecting Flash to databases and XML
  • Generating and streaming video
  • Embedding Flash animations and applications into web pages

Course 984 Content

Fundamentals of Adobe Flash

  • Requirements of Rich Internet Applications
  • Navigating the Flash IDE
  • Exploring Flash capabilities

Building Flash Content

Analyzing the interface

  • Investigating toolbar functionality
  • Synchronizing content with the timeline
  • Adjusting interface parameters with the properties window

Creating and importing assets

  • Graphics
  • Movie clips
  • Buttons
  • Constructing navigation menus
  • Utilizing the built-in tools to create content
  • Importing video, graphics and audio
  • Leveraging Photoshop for graphic manipulation

Configuring Flash components

  • Enhancing the user interface with the Component Library
  • Extending Flash capabilities with third-party components

Bringing Flash to Life with Animation

Creating motion in scenes

  • Producing movement with Shape and Motion Tweens
  • Adding a motion path to control location
  • Synchronizing motion with sound

Achieving special effects

  • Masking
  • Dropshadows
  • Explosions
  • Silhouette
  • Fading between multiple photographs

Building complex animation structures

  • Creating nested movie clips
  • Developing multiple scenes
  • Forming animated buttons
  • Animating in 3-D

Additional Animation Techniques

  • Saving and reusing Motion Paths
  • Utilizing the Motion Editor and masking MovieClips

Developing Interactivity with ActionScript

Core language fundamentals

  • Variables
  • Objects
  • Functions
  • Making decisions and iterating through data
  • Controlling application navigation

Handling application interaction

  • Responding to user requests
  • Gathering and validating user input
  • Reacting to video and data events

Animating and styling content

  • Creating motion without the timeline
  • Adding a timed photo fade
  • Formatting user interface components with CSS

Connecting to Data Sources

Working with XML

  • Reading and parsing XML data with E4X
  • Building a user interface with XML data
  • Populating content areas

Accessing databases

  • Receiving data through server-side scripts
  • Populating the user interface with dynamic data
  • Storing user input from a Flash application

Enhancing Flash Sites with Video

Encoding video for delivery

  • Defining accepted video encoding formats
  • Handling standards and bandwidth issues
  • Transcoding video with multiple tools

Controlling playback

  • Dynamically interacting with video
  • Creating a full set of video playback options
  • Building and loading video playlists
  • Applying closed-captioning to online videos

Serving video content

  • Comparing progressive downloading and streaming
  • Delivering from a standard web server
  • Evaluating alternative open-source servers
  • Inserting and reading video cue points

Deploying Flash

Standard delivery methods

  • Publishing to the web
  • Distributing by physical media

Detecting Flash-capable devices

  • Utilizing the SWFObject JavaScript library
  • Offering alternative content

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Adobe Flash: Developing Interactive Web Content

Training Dates

Live online classroom training.Most events below can be taken in-class or live, online from your home or office with AnyWare.
Jul 17 - 20Rockville, MD enroll
Sep 4 - 7Reston, VA enroll

For AnyWare enrollments, please register at least 7 days prior to the start of the course.

Note: The exercise material in this course is not currently compatible with the Mac operating system.

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