Bringing Animation to Your Websites introducing ADOBE FLASH

On the road to a good website Introducing Flash 1Dreamweaver 2Fireworks 3Flash Web Design Principles (C.R.A.P.)

Flash adds a dynamic aspect to your website based on motion and interactivity. Flash is a vector animation software, originally designed to create animations for display on web pages. Vector graphics are ideal for the web because they are so lightweight. What is Flash?

FLASH MOVIES Where can you use Flash? You can create: Introduction to a website Example Animation within the website Example 1 Example 2 Whole website Example

-Flash document:.fla -Shockwave file:.swf -Other possible file types:.html,.gif File Types

Flash Environment toolbox timeline panels stage

TIMELINE: a closer look Layers Frames and Keyframes

LAYERS - Vehicles for the objects of your movie - Like transparent acetate sheets of content stacked on top of one another

LAYERS Layers are like transparencies?

FRAMES AND KEYFRAMES - The timeline is made up of individual units called frames. - The keyframes are the most important frames that shape the motion.

FRAMES AND KEYFRAMES From the concept of flip book to modern computerized animations