The bestselling guide to Macromedia Flash, the leading tool creating animation and building interactive, multimedia Web sites, now fully updated and revised to cover the new release. Covers everything readers need to know to master the newest version, includling workarounds for hidden bugs and unpublished tricks and techiques not likely to appear in other books. Packed with expert tutorials from the world's leading Flash gurus, with more coverage on using Flash with other applications than any other book.

Contents at a Glance
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I : An Introduction to Flash Web Production
Part II : Mastering the Flash Environment
Part III : Creating Animation and Effects
Part IV : Integrating Media Files with Flash
Part V : Adding Basic Interactivity to Flash Movies
Part VI : Distributing Flash Movies
Part VII : Approaching ActionScript
Part VIII : Expanding Flash
Part IX : Appendixes
Index

Robert Reinhardt
Robert with a degree in photographic arts, He takes a holistic approach to computer applications for the creation of compelling multimedia. Robert has been a regular featured speaker at the FlashForward, FlashintheCan, and SIGGRAPH conferences.

Snow Dowd
Snow initially collaborated with Robert Reinhardt on multimedia, film, and photography-based installation projects while earning a BFA in Image Arts at Ryerson University.