1. Flash: Week 2 Presentation by Mindy McAdams

2. What Flash Does Well  Design control  Integration of media types  Interactivity  No scrolling necessary  Modularity  Motion  Portability  Preloading  Sound  Streaming

3. Problems in Flash Content  Accessibility  Blurred text  Bookmarking  File associations  Linking (pop-up windows)  Search engines  Site navigation  “Skip Intro”  Version or browser conflicts

4. Button States Example 1: Hit stateHit state Example 2: Text-only buttonText-only button

5. Reading Your Timeline Example: Up and down balloon (Lesson 5)Up and down balloon

6. Frame Label  Select the exact frame in the Timeline  Then … go to the Properties panel and type the label

7. A Non-linear Timeline  Important to understand right now that the Timeline can be accessed in any order, using ActionScript  However, the playhead normally moves from left to right  You can think of the Timeline as a CD with tracks; you can mark the start of new “tracks” by placing frame labels  Use stop() actions with the frame labels

8. The End Work through Lesson 4 and Lesson 5 in their entirety before you begin work on Flash Exercise 2 (due next Monday) And let’s preview Week 8 …preview Week 8