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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

Adding sound effects to a button


To increase user feedback, you can add sound effects to a button. Sound effects are most useful when applied to either the Over or Down state. We recommend putting sound effects only on the Down state so that users hear the sound when they successfully click on the button rather than every single time they roll over it—on purpose or accidentally. If you are doing game design or creating applications for children, for instance, your priorities may be different from ours. The process is the same for placing a sound effect on either state; it is just a matter of selecting that state in the timeline.

Getting ready

Have a Flash file open that has a button symbol on it.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Make sure the sound is turned on for your computer.

  2. 2. Double click on the button symbol instance on the stage or the button symbol in the library to isolate the button and its timeline.

  3. 3. Click the new layer button at the bottom left of the timeline to create a new layer.

  4. 4. Double...