Flash 3 Creative Web Animation Author:Darrel Plant Flash is Macromedia's new tool for people who want to put a little multimedia on their Web sites without buying and mastering a professional tool like Macromedia Director. With the affordable Flash program (and this book), even novices can lend impact to their sites with animated logos, banners, buttons, cartoons, and illustrations. Flash 3! C... more »reativeWeb Animation is a complete introduction to Flash from one of Macromedia's own training experts, Darrel Plant. It shows even the newest beginner how to make streaming animations, rollover buttons, animated logos, and other moving graphics that load and play instantly. The book covers Flash's drawing tools, animation controls, file format support, and its easy-to-use versions of multimedia features like tweening, and "onion-skinning." After readers master these tools, they learn how to make the most of the unique vector drawing tools that allow Flash to generate very compact, screamingly fast-loading files that are scalable to different resolutions. Finally, readers learn the rules for using animation effectively: how to make it useful for the viewer; how to plan Flash integration into a Web site; and how to make animated Web content easy to maintain.« less