How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash 5

by Bonnie Blake

Macromedia is currently a red-hot topic in the web development community. Macromedia estimates that over 3 million computer browsers now have the Flash player - that's roughly 80% of web browsers -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072127147
• ISBN13: 9780072127140
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best In The Batch

This book is outstanding. As a Flash educator,it's difficult to wade through the myriad of books out there. I needed something that was step-by-step and intuitive and easy to read and follow and accomplish projects. This book does it all and offers a plethora of resources for source code, web sites offering much, much helpful information. The author wrote a sound, knowledgeable book that is easy to understand and use. These are the operative words!

I think it does really say everything

This book was really a pleasent surprise. It is very upfront and easy to read and packed with answers to questions I could not find anywhere else. And Flash is a subject that seems easy at first, but it'sreally quite complex. Bonnie makes the complex seem very easy. Especially in the Actionscript section. Instead of coming with a CD, you can download online files. The publisher could have made this a little easier to find, but once I found them, they were really great. Very helpful in totally understanding the concepts.I'd say this is a great book for any level Flash user. I highly recommend it.

How To Do Everything with Macromedia Flash 5

This is by the far the best book on the market today covering concepts that are clearly explained, with examples that precisely illustrate the "how to" and "why" things are done. It covers pertinent information for the avid Flash professional and makes for a handy reference manual, aside from the fact that it's a "must have" for the Flash beginner as well. This book is extremely well written and its coverage of the object oriented ActionScript is filled with examples that make its concepts easy to grasp. Finally, a book that sticks to Flash and isn't crammed with hundreds of pages of topics that have nothing to do with Flash or its concepts.

Authoritative, easy to understand reference

Before reading this book I was struggling with Flash. Thanks to the author's thorough coverage of the software and the helpful tutorials, I am now able to create professional looking Flash movies. The book is well written and easy to understand. I keep it within arm's reach whenever I'm working with Flash. I can highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to master all the features of Flash.

a gem in a haystack

This book is outstanding. Not only does the author write in laymen's terms but she also explains with detail those features of Flash which are most pertinent to the end user. It's easy to understand the functionality of this popular and powerful program in the hands of Bonnie Blake. Her graphics background clearly comes into play with this book and enhances the readability for those designers out there.Her style is easy-going and easy-flowing and her humor is injected in just the right places and right ways to make this heavy subject simple to digest and use. Thank you, Bonnie, for the gem that stands out as one-of-a-kind in the haystack of too many mediocre books written on Flash!