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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

Creating a shape tween


Shape tweens are used when you want to change one shape into a different shape. This is best done on a one to one ratio, for example, to change one circle into one star. Also, simple shapes will give you results that are at least somewhat predictable. Using a shape tween on complex shapes will often yield surprising results. If you try to use a shape tween to make it look like a caterpillar is morphing into a butterfly, you will get a tangled mess in the middle.

Shape tweens work on objects, primitive objects, and merged shapes.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In Flash, create a new file by going to File | New (Ctrl/Cmd N). Select Flash File (ActionScript 3.0) and hit OK.

  2. 2. Double-click on Layer 1 and rename it Shape Tween.

  3. 3. Use any one of the drawing tools to create a shape or object of any size and color you want. Remember to keep it simple. For instance, create an oval by dragging the Oval tool on the stage.

  4. 4. Right-click/Ctrl-click on the key frame in the timeline and choose...