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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

Using Flash to create watermarks


Watermarks are a low visual impact way to inform viewers of ownership of your images. They help to dissuade copyright infringement and outright image thievery. If you have an image or a design that you want to put your mark on, Flash makes it easy.

Getting ready

Have one or more images that you want to test a watermark on available to you. A JPG file will work well. If you do not have any images, use Flash's drawing tools to create something. There are also images available to you in theChapter 3 images folder.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Create a new file: File | New Flash File (ActionScript 3.0) for example.

  2. 2. Import a file: File | Import | Import to Stage (Ctrl/Cmmd R). If you get a dialog box asking if you want to import more than one image (an entire sequence of images, for example), select No. If you do not get the dialog box, that is fine.

  3. 3. Use Modify | Page Properties (Ctrl/Cmmd J) to adjust the stage size as desired. Check the box for Match: Contents if you...