Adobe Flash: Developing Interactive Web Content

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Course Overview

Rich Internet Applications demand sophisticated content and delivery methods. Adobe Flash is a leading development tool that provides organisations with a fast, fluid environment for creating interactive applications that enhance the end-user experience. This hands-on course provides the essential skills necessary to develop, deploy and secure content and data-driven applications, including animation, streaming video and special effects.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Audience

Web developers, graphic designers and those who want to add Adobe Flash functionality to their sites. A background in Web development is helpful, but not required.

Skills Gained

You Will Learn How To

• Build and deploy cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and content with Adobe Flash
• Create engaging animations to attract and retain users
• Generate interactive dynamic content and special effects with ActionScript
• Connect to relational databases and XML datasets to build real-time, data-driven applications
• Encode and deliver streaming video to create innovative, mixed-media content
• Integrate and distribute Flash content on multiple platforms including DVD, Web and Mobile

Hands-on Training

Hands-on exercises provide experience creating and delivering Flash applications, including:

• Creating an application framework with buttons, graphics and sounds
• Integrating with Photoshop to manipulate bitmap graphics
• Building animations with motion and special effects
• Adding interactive functionality with ActionScript
• Connecting Flash to databases and XML
• Generating and streaming video
• Producing and distributing content to Adobe AIR and mobile devices

Course Outline

Fundamentals of Adobe Flash

• Requirements of Rich Internet Applications
• Navigating the Flash IDE
• Exploring Flash capabilities

Building Flash Content

Analysing the interface

• Investigating toolbar functionality
• Synchronising content with the timeline
• Adjusting interface parameters with the properties window

Creating and importing assets

• Graphics
• Movie clips
• Buttons
• Constructing navigation menus
• Importing video, graphics and audio
• Leveraging Photoshop for graphic manipulation

Configuring Flash components

• Enhancing the user interface with the Component Library
• Extending Flash capabilities with third-party components

Bringing Flash to Life with Animation

Creating motion in scenes

• Moving assets across the stage
• Adding a motion path to control location
• Synchronising motion with sound

Achieving special effects

• Masking
• Dropshadows
• Explosions
• Silhouette
• Fading between multiple photographs

Developing Interactivity with ActionScript

Core language fundamentals

• Variables
• Objects
• Functions
• Making decisions and iterating through data
• Controlling application navigation
• Adding video and audio components

Handling application interaction

• Responding to user requests
• Gathering and validating user input
• Reacting to video and data events

Animating and styling content

• Creating motion without the timeline
• Adding a timed photo fade
• Formatting user interface components with CSS

Connecting to Data Sources

Working with XML

• Reading and parsing XML data with E4X
• Building a user interface with XML data
• Populating content areas

Accessing databases

• Receiving data through server-side scripts
• Interacting directly with relational databases

Enhancing Flash Sites with Video

Encoding video for delivery

• Defining accepted video encoding formats
• Handling standards and bandwidth issues
• Transcoding video with multiple tools
• Employing High Definition (HD) video

Controlling playback

• Dynamically interacting with video
• Creating a full set of video playback options
• Building and loading video playlists
• Selecting a full screen option
• Applying closed-captioning to online videos

Serving video content

• Comparing progressive downloading and streaming
• Delivering from a standard Web server
• Uploading and distributing content with the Flash Media Server
• Evaluating alternative open source servers

Deploying Flash

Standard delivery methods

• Publishing to the Web
• Distributing by physical media

Exploiting Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

• Installing AIR runtime
• Packaging and publishing AIR applications

Widening delivery with Flash Mobile

• Working within device constraints
• Simulating mobile environments with Adobe Device Central
• Launching Flash Mobile sites

Securing Flash applications

• Defining security requirements
• Generating and signing security certificates

Follow On Courses

• 487 Designing and Building Great Web Pages
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• 470 Developing a Web Site
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• 489 JavaScript for Web Development
• 221 Writing for the Web

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