Build Your First Website with Flash MX

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Summary: A complete waste - AVOID this one!
Review: Don't even think about buying this useless poorly written book - it's fill with endless mistakes.

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Summary: Numerous Typos, Missing CD Files, But Still Helpful
Review: I bought this book because it claimed to walk you through the process of creating a full flash website. The way I usually learn is to just do it so it seemed great, especially for the price. Unfortunately, there are numerous typos, skipped steps, and missing files on the cd. The way I found it useful was by reading and getting the basics of flash site development. I used what I could from this book in conjunction with what I found on www.flashkit.com. Now I have everything I need to get my work done. Being a developer requires you have thinking skills, so anyone with a little experience with development should be able to figure it out. If you can't, maybe you should consider something other than flash development.

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Summary: A complete waste - AVOID this one!
Review: I picked this book up because of its flashy title. Before I purchased it, I read through quite a few pages. However, being a novice at using Flash, I didn't have a handle on some of the techniques discussed. After careful review, and lots of practice time, it dawned on me that some of the examples and steps in the book were not quite accurate. After running through the tutorials, I made several changes that actually improved the tutorials themselves. For instance, one of the steps is to animate a butterfly symbol you create. However, the steps have you convert the symbol to a graphic. You can't animate a graphic symbol; it has to be converted to a movie clip instead. This was confusing until I figured it out. Also, they want you to add several extra keyframes where you really only need one; and it even helps make your animation smoother when you use only one. One other thing, sometimes the instruction will not match up with the illustrations provided; it requires some patience to figure it out. So, other than the occasional mistake in some of the steps, the book can teach you some really basic, fundamental steps in Flash. Some editing would improve this book. You can't beat it for talking in layman's terms, though I haven't checked out the "Dummies" series yet. Do they even have a Flash MX for Dummies book yet? Before buying this book, look for a few other titles. You might be much happier in the long run, unless you're patient.

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Summary: Flash
Review: My P.e teacher has asked me to make him a flash website. So far I am extreamly advance at flash but I haven't used it for about 2 years. I would like to see how flash websites are made. I am in a advance grade for flash animations and I hope this book will help me to build an advance flash website.