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Adobe® Flash®: Developing Interactive Web Content

 
Course: 984   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

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

Course Benefits

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.

Who Should Attend

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.

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
  • Embedding Flash animations and applications into Web pages

Related Courses

  • 522 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for Web Pages
  • 470 Developing a Website
  • 986 Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications
  • 489 JavaScript for Web Development
  • 988 Adobe Photoshop: Creating and Enhancing Images and Graphics
  • 1610 jQuery Comprehensive Introduction
  • 2320 HTML5: Next Generation Web Development

 
Adobe Flash is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
   Adobe Flash: Developing Interactive Web Content

Upcoming Dates

Live online classroom training.Attend highlighted events in person or live, online via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.

UK Dates

12-15 JunLondon

US East Coast Dates

20-23 MarWashington, DC*
8-11 MayWashington, DC*
29 May - 1 JunNew York*

*New York and Washington, DC Courses – Available online with a run time of 2pm to 9pm BST.

For AnyWare enrolments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.

Note: The exercise material in this course is not currently compatible with the Mac operating system.


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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Adobe® Flash®: Developing Interactive Web Content

 
Course: 984   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

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
  • Utilising the built-in tools to create content
  • 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

  • Producing movement with Shape and Motion Tweens
  • Adding a motion path to control location
  • Synchronising motion with sound

Achieving special effects

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

Building complex animation structures

  • Creating nested movie clips
  • Developing multiple scenes
  • Forming animated buttons
  • Animating in 3-D

Additional animation techniques

  • Saving and reusing Motion Paths
  • Utilising the Motion Editor and masking MovieClips

Developing Interactivity with ActionScript

Core language fundamentals

  • Variables
  • Objects
  • Functions
  • Making decisions and iterating through data
  • Controlling application navigation

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
  • Populating the user interface with dynamic data
  • Storing user input from a Flash application

Enhancing Flash Sites with Video

Encoding video for delivery

  • Defining accepted video encoding formats
  • Handling standards and bandwidth issues
  • Transcoding video with multiple tools

Controlling playback

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

Serving video content

  • Comparing progressive downloading and streaming
  • Delivering from a standard Web server
  • Evaluating alternative open-source servers
  • Inserting and reading video cue points

Deploying Flash

Standard delivery methods

  • Publishing to the Web
  • Distributing by physical media

Detecting Flash-capable devices

  • Utilising the SWFObject JavaScript library
  • Offering alternative content
 
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Productivity through Education®
 
 

Adobe® Flash®: Developing Interactive Web Content

 
Course: 984   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Fees
£ 1,925Standard Fee
Fee with a Savings Plan
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£ 1,600Voucher 10-Pack

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  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

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