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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

Overview of this book

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform now. This flexible CMS is the power behind millions of URLs, including blue-chip companies, small business, and personal websites. Flash is a world-famous multimedia platform. This book will show you the best of the proven and popular strategies and techniques to deliver rich multimedia content, which will let you sail through the world of Flashy Wordpress with ease.This book will take you through clear well-formed and comprehensive recipes, through the most essential and useful Flash multimedia tools for Wordpress available today including plugins for images, audio and video, as well as projects you can do yourself in Flash. It helps you to create a Wordpress website full of Flash content. We show the big picture by providing context, best practices and strategies. Detailed instructions are provided for each section. This book provides you with the shortlist of the most essential Flash tools for creating a dynamic and media-rich website or blog, and shows you how to implement these on your site. The sections on Flash are intended to give you the option to create custom .swf files, giving you an alternative to plugins that already exist. The book will show you how to configure Flash content in your WordPress site/blog for maximum SEO, introduce Flash content to your Wordpress with and without plugins, import image feeds, use lightbox effects, and much more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Wordpress and Flash 10x Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
WordPress Resources
Flash Resources

Designing your own stylish MP3 player


This technical recipe gives you a method for designing a stylish MP3 player. Everyone's sense of style is different. The overall goal with this is to keep it unobtrusive and sleek while still looking cool. Depending on the amount of time and your skill level, you can absolutely make a simpler version or something much more involved. There are people who spend their entire corporate workday creating gradients on top of gradients next to gradients to make buttons and player applications of all kinds look as shiny, sleek, and realistic as possible. Here, you will learn a little trick and use just two gradients. This design also incorporates a dynamic text field that is optional. The design dimensions can be changed to eliminate the text field if it is unnecessary. The basic design is shown below. The text field, if you choose to incorporate it, will be centered inside the player.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In Flash, create a new file by going to File | New (Ctrl...