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Here are some of the things you can do with this book: Use it as a doorstop (Kidding!) Plan a Flash Web site Create a lean, fast-loading Flash interface Create content for your Flash Web site Create interactive Web sites with Flash Optimize and publish your Flash Web site Add eye candy to your Flash Web site Create an e-commerce Flash Web site Debug your ActionScript Sharpen your ability to deal with clients

In order to do most anything, you need some specific tools, just a bit of knowhow, and perchance a bit of luck mingled with creativity When you need to design a Flash Web site, you need the proper tools For this book, that tool is Flash 8 And if you re going to do cool stuff, like encode your own video, you need Flash 8 Professional

You should know your way around the Flash workspace But don t worry; I do give you a brief refresher course on some of the basic Flash stuff, like creating animations, working with text, and so on When you create animations, and for that matter format text, choose colors, and so on, you use the Properties Inspector to set the parameters for the object with which you are working Therefore, you should have a working knowledge of the Properties Inspector I also show you how to work with ActionScript However, in order to follow along, you should have a basic knowledge of the Actions panel Another thing you should know is how to manipulate HTML documents Although your main work in this book uses Flash, you still have to do some editing to the HTML document in which your Flash Web site is embedded If you have working knowledge of an HTML editor, such as Dreamweaver, you re one step ahead of the game Another benefit of Dreamweaver is the fact that you can use the software to upload files to the Web provider that hosts the Web site

I m not a conventional kind of guy But of course, without some kind of conventions, such as punctuation and grammar, people wouldn t be able to understand each other This book is no different Without conventions, you d have no idea of what to do or when to do it Therefore, we use the following conventions in this book When you re asked to input information you know, type something the required input is boldfaced When you see examples of ActionScript code, URLs, and e-mail addresses, these are in a monofont typeface, like so: myEmail@myservercom New terms are italicized

This is one of those nonlinear type of books, which means that you don t have to read it in order Although the book can be read as a whole, feel free to jump to the section that contains the information you need You ll get a good idea of what s in each section by reading the tips and notes And of course, a picture is always worth a thousand words: You can look at the figures to get an idea of what s presented in each section; if the picture doesn t relate to the information you re looking for, feel free to skip that section Also, you can feel free to skip any sections wearing a Technical Stuff icon

Building Flash Web Sites For Dummies is split into five parts You don t have to read the book sequentially, and you don t even have to read all the sections in any particular chapter You can use the Table of Contents and the Index to find the information you need and quickly get your answer In this section, I briefly describe what you ll find in each part