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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 buttons in the Common Library


This technical recipe is in preparation for the following music-oriented recipes. It is written for people who are not very familiar with Flash but still want to be able to accomplish the next few recipes. Here you will learn how to use pre-made buttons from Flash's Common Library. It is really very simple.

How to do it...

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

  2. 2. Go to Window | Common Libraries | Buttons, and a panel will appear that has a lot of folders in it. Each folder holds different buttons and the pieces (assets) that make up those buttons:

  1. 3. Click on one of the triangles to the left of a folder to open the folder. For buttons that look like play, stop, fast forward, and the like, choose a folder with playback as part of its name.

  2. 4. Click on the different buttons inside the folder to see what each looks like in the preview window at the top of the panel. There is a tiny...