by Peter Aylward, Ken Jokol, Jamie MacDonald, Paul Prudence, Glen Rhodes, Robbie Shepherd

This book takes an in-depth look at purposing your Flash skills towards developing fully functional Flash Applications. Taking its lead from the design element, each chapter takes you a step further into evolving your design skills into application development.

It will look at:

• Focusing your interface design for ease of use
• Shaping up the back end to keep things simple
• Delivering complex content, including video

Using a blend of instructional and inspirational chapters, this book looks at Flash’s strengths – graphical dynamism, interactivity, back-end punch and multimedia delivery.

• Make gorgeous sites in tiny files with the Drawing API
• Look at the marriage of data and beauty with a Flash Family Tree
• Create real-feel interfaces that mimic different media
• Make XML do the donkey-work in site structure
• Ease up you navigation with PHP
• Create an entire drawing application
• Deliver video and make it interactive with Flash

…and so much more!