Chapter 20. Integrating with Flash and ShockwaveIN THIS CHAPTER
Some of the most feature-rich, interactive, and user-consuming websites on the Internet today use Flash technology. Ever visit a website that loaded a vector-based game, invited you to play, and then find that when you started playing the game, it instantly loaded a travel website? How many sidebar "mini games" have you seen that invite you to "shoot the paparazzi," "kill the ninja," "punch the monkey," or "shoot the duck"? The fact remains that Flash is by far the most widely distributed and widely used platform for delivering rich media over the web. Whether you're using Flash for movies, games, marketing purposes, or simply to create stunning animations for your personal or company's website, Flash offers designers and developers total freedom from restrictive HTML standards and provides a great alternative to static web page development. In this chapter, you'll discover how to work with Flash movies in Dreamweaver. You'll learn how to embed Flash movies in your Web pages, pass parameters into those movies, work with Flash elements in Dreamweaver such as the Image Viewer, Flash Buttons, and Flash text. Finally, we'll round out the chapter by discussing the process of controlling Flash movies using behaviors as well as working with roundtrip Flash editing. As you have done with the rest of the chapters in this book, you can work with the examples in this chapter by downloading the files from www.dreamweaverunleashed.com. You'll want to save the files for Chapter 20 in an easy-to-find location. I'll place mine in C:\Dorknozzle\Chapter20. |