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Building a Website in Flash MX 2004
By Craig Campbell
Running Time: 11 hours, 5 minutes
Overview
This new series goes more in depth on constructing a website in Flash than any other series we've released! We will walk you through the construction of an entire website from start to finish. You will learn everything from laying out your content to creating high-quality animated transitions between pages. You will learn how to use ActionScript 2.0 to add interactivity to your websites. You will also learn how to create advanced preloaders that will show your user the loading progress of your site. On top of all this, you will learn how to create slideshows, forms, and much more.
Detailed Video Descriptions
1
- Welcome (Running Time: 0:54)
In this video, Craig welcomes you to the series and gives you a brief
explanation of what to expect.
2
- Your First Website (Running Time: 16:32)
Building a basic website in Flash can be easier than you might think. In
this video, Craig teaches you some of the basic theory behind putting a website
together using Flash, and he jumps right in and gets you started creating your
first website.
3
- Making it Work (Running Time: 25:03)
A website won't do you much good if your buttons won't take you from one page to
the next. In this video, Craig shows you how to add actions to your
buttons in order to create basic navigation for your site.
4
- Page Transitions, Part 1 (Running Time: 9:46)
In this video Craig sets the stage for creating
animated transitions between pages in a website. This video in particular
simply involves filling out the content in preparation for animation.
5
- Page Transitions, Part 2 (Running Time: 17:07)
Now that everything is
prepared, Craig walks you through the process of creating some simple animated
transitions between pages that will occur when a button is pressed.
6 - The if() Statement (Running Time:
10:18)
In this video, Craig highlights the if() statement in ActionScript and shows you
how you can use it to enhance your page navigation.
7
- Invisible Buttons (Running Time: 17:14)
In this video, Craig shows you how to use
invisible buttons to disable underlying buttons.
8
- Disabling Buttons (Running Time: 11:01)
In this video, Craig shows you how to achieve
the same effect that was talked about in the last video (namely, the disabling
of buttons), except this time, he shows you how to do it using the buttons
"enabled" property.
9 - Introduction to
Variables (Running Time: 12:31)
A variable is a placeholder where you can store data. In this video, Craig
walks you through the declaration of variables and shows you how to assign
values to a variable and how to change those values dynamically.
10 - Using Variables for
Navigation (Running Time: 11:17)
Using the foundation he built in video 9 on variables, Craig shows you how to
use variables to keep track of the current page in your website. Using
variables in this manner allows you more flexibility in customizing your site
navigation.
11
- Website Tour (Running Time: 6:51)
Well, it's about time to get started on the project website for the video
series. In this video, Craig gives you a quick tour of the website and
outlines the topics that will be covered for the rest of the video series.
12
- Creating the Products Section (Running Time: 16:11)
In the next 4 videos, Craig walks you through
the construction of the products section of the project website. In this
first video, he introduces you to the starter file for this mini-project and
shows you how to get started creating the intro animation.
13
- The Products Section, Part 2 (Running Time: 12:22)
In this second video, Craig continues with the
introductory animation that plays when the products section of the website is
first called.
14
- The Products Section, Part 3 (Running Time: 15:21)
This video covers phase 3 of the introductory
animation in the products section.
15
- The Products Section, Part 4 (Running Time: 30:30)
In this video, Craig wraps up the creation of
the products section by filling in the content and adding interactivity to the
buttons.
16
- Creating a Slideshow (Running Time: 14:36)
After a grueling bout with the products sections, it's time to take a quick
break from our project website. In this video, Craig starts with a blank
page and shows you how to build a slideshow using Flash MX 2004.
17
- Movie Clip States (Running Time: 26:44)
The button symbol, as you should know by now, has four different states: Up,
Over, Down, and Hit. In this video, Craig shows you how to create movie
clip symbols that use this same idea of "states" to accomplish various tasks.
18
- Creating Your Navigation (Running Time: 27:14)
In this video, Craig will walk you through the
project site once again, this time highlighting and explaining the navigation
techniques he used to create it. Then, he gets you started setting up the
pages for the navigation.
19
- Creating Navigation, Part 2 (Running Time: 23:20)
Now that the graphics are placed on the stage,
Craig shows you how to create animations for each of the pages in the site.
20
- Creating Navigation, Part 3 (Running Time: 11:00)
In this video, Craig teaches you the
ActionScript needed for the onRollOver event of each of the buttons in the main
navigation.
21
- The currentPage Variable (Running Time: 47:55)
In this video, Craig puts his previous discussion about variables (see videos 9
& 10) to practical use in the project website. Now that the navigation has
been constructed, Craig uses a variable that he names "currentPage" to control
the flow of the navigation and the transitions between pages.
22
- Scrolling Text (Running Time: 22:40)
Every beginning Flash user wants to know how to create scrolling text, and in
this video, you'll discover that's it's a lot easier than you might think.
Craig will teach you how to use the "scroll" property of a dynamic text field to
make this happen.
23
- Continuous Scrolling (Running Time: 8:15)
Okay, so you can create buttons now that will scroll your text one line at a
time. But what if you want to just click on the scroll arrow and allow the
text to keep scrolling until you let go of the mouse button? Well, fear
not! In this video, Craig will show you how to add just a LITTLE bit of
extra code to accomplish this.
24
- Creating the Header Animation (Running Time: 27:25)
What is there to say, except that in this video, Craig will show you how to
create the header animation for the project website?
25
- Filling in the Home Page (Running Time: 16:32)
This video simply walks you through creating the remaining content for the home
page of the project site.
26
- Creating Custom Forms (Running Time: 26:00)
The bad news is that it takes more than JUST Flash in order to create forms that
will send and receive information to and from your server. But the good
news is that it CAN be done. In this video, Craig will show you how to
take a custom form created for html from a CGI script and convert that form so
that it can be used in Flash.
27
- Performing Calculations (Running Time: 26:30)
Unless you're a math nut, this section can be pretty boring, but the good news
is that it's easy. You will need to learn this stuff if you plan on adding
any calculations to your website, such as in the "Profit Calculator" section of
our project site.
28
- Adding More Content (Running Time: 22:47)
This video contains more instruction on adding basic content to the project
website.
29
- More on the Invisible Button (Running Time: 16:11)
If you have pages layered upon pages, you need some way to disable the buttons
on the the pages underneath. If you don't, you may accidentally click on
something that you can't even see on the stage. In this video, Craig shows
you how invisible buttons can solve this problem.
30
- Loading Text from a Text File (Running Time: 33:29)
Let's say you have some text in your Flash file that you plan on updating quite
often. Is there a simply way to update this text without having to go into
your Flash file? Well, yes there is! In this video, Craig will show
you how.
31
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - (Running Time: 19:11)
In this video, Craig will introduce you to CSS and show you how you can tie a
stylesheet to a dynamic text field in order to customize the look of the text.
32
- Fixing Those Pesky Bugs (Running Time: 10:49)
After creating most of what turned out to be a very
complex website, Craig noticed a couple of glitches with the file. In this
video and the next, he humbly points out the bugs, and shows you how he
approaches fixing them. In this video, the bug he fixes deals with
problems with the dynamic text field where info was loaded from an external
file.
33
- Fixing Those Bugs, Part 2 (Running Time: 15:46)
The bug in this video deals with fickle users. You'll have to watch the
video to see what we mean by that, but in this video, Craig again uses invisible
buttons to solve a pesky problem.
34
- Importing an External swf (Running Time: 16:14)
Remember back when we created our products section as a whole separate file?
Well, in this video, Craig will show you how to import that swf file into our
main website file.
35
- Creating Advanced Preloaders (Running Time: 34:29)
The subject of preloaders can be an intimidating subject to a lot of beginning
Flash users, but it's not as difficult as you might think. In this video,
Craig breaks down the steps for creating a preloader so that anyone can
understand it.
36
- Finishing Touches (Running Time: 5:45)
In this video, Craig wraps up the video series by showing you how to enhance
your final product in just a couple of simple steps by altering the html file
that Flash publishes for you.
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