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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

Integrating Google Maps into your Flash document


It is possible to incorporate a scrollable map from Google into a SWF. This recipe tells you how to do that. The steps are modified from the very effective tutorial at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/intro.html. This recipe is honed down to the essential steps for working specifically with Flash CS4 and Google Maps API library. A perk of incorporating a Google map in this fashion, rather than just using a static bitmap image of a map, is that as Google updates their map library, you get to reap the benefits of those updates.

Getting ready

You must have a URL that belongs to you in order to get an API key from Google to use their Google Maps API library.

Go to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html to sign up for the Google Maps API. It is not possible to incorporate an interactive Google map into a SWF web page without doing this first. There is a list of requirements as well as terms and conditions that you must agree...