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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

Appendix B. Flash Resources

There are a multitude of resources available to help you with Adobe Flash and Macromedia Flash. As you know, this book focused on Adobe Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0 as they are used and implemented in WordPress. Many of the resources listed below have information or tutorials about other versions of Flash and ActionScript 2.0, in addition to further CS4 resources that are not covered in the scope of this book. The list below is in no way comprehensive. It merely offers suggestions.

My learning process came from a number of different sources, some of which are listed below. Over the course of my years of teaching, I have also been a student. A fellow instructor, Abigail Rudner (http://www.rudner.com), was a great help to me when I first started learning Flash and using ActionScript 2.0. Many books exist that are specific to Flash and ActionScript. For books, I suggest hunkering down in a bookstore to look through the selection to find the book(s) that meet your needs for subject matter, proficiency level, and writing style. I hope you found this book helpful!

A reasonable resource for information, articles, and links to more of each on Adobe Flash:

Pre-made Flash components (for purchase):

Resources for furthering your coding prowess and more: