Skip Intro

Flash makes great intros.

Lots of color and tasteful type and exquisite motion. The music is thrilling, too. Each of these intros is amazing and each is unique. They only have one thing in common.

Every one has a button that says SKIP INTRO.

Those two words carry a lot of weight.

 

 

 

What’s up?
The web is outgrowing its eye-candy phase, and so must Flash

A website must be pretty to be viable, but it must be highly functional as well.

Flash pros can’t get by on gee-whiz animation or cool interfaces. They’d better prepare to do some of the heavy lifting on the working web. Flash screens must interface with

  •  dynamic content
  • backend databases
  • server based applications
  • and even with other live users.

XML provides a path to all of this.

 

 

 

Don’t stop!
Once you connect your Flash code to the outside world, your scope is unbounded.

And so is the list of things to learn.

In this book we learn a lot. We begin with Flash and XML. We study networking protocols and server scripting. We learn sockets and SQL and a few fancy XML dialects. We go on to achieve competence in many other related technologies - and put them together to build working web systems.

 

 

 

Who are you?
If you are creative and you are technical, this book is for you.

Maybe you have a design background.
You learn whatever technology you need to realize your vision. This book offers you skills that open fresh new worlds. Let’s hope your imagination can keep up.

Maybe you have computer science training.
You’re happy with simple grey buttons. Your art is an elegant code design. You are ready to put Flash to work with all the web technologies you already know.

This book was written by authors who approach it from both angles.
We want it to speak to both engineers and artists, and we struggled (often with each other) to support both perspectives

 

 

 

Why?
We wrote this book because it wasn't there when we needed it.

 

 

 

Dov & Jesse Jacobson
Berkeley Lake, Georgia
July ‘01