Flash® CS4 for Dummies®

Chapter 12. Putting It All Together

In This Chapter

• Building user interfaces with components

• Offering your viewers a preloader

• Putting together an entire Web site with Flash

• Checking out your viewers' Flash Player version

• Analyzing your movies with the Movie Explorer

• Making your site accessible to people with disabilities

When creating your Flash animation, you need to consider how you will integrate it with your entire Web site. Are you creating a small animation to insert into an existing HyperText Markup Language (HTML) site, or do you want your entire site to be Flashed? In this chapter, we cover techniques for creating entire presentations, Web pages, and sites using Flash.

Adding the Power of Components

Components in Flash are built-in, precoded wonders that simplify the creation of interactive Flash movies. Components can be used to add interaction and navigation elements to your Flash movies, allowing you to create surveys, forms, interactive art galleries, or even complete graphical user interfaces for your Flash movies. Among other things, you can also use components (with the help of some fairly sophisticated ActionScript) to access and manipulate data from the Web and other sources.

Flash CS4 ships with more than two dozen ActionScript 2.0 components and more than three dozen ActionScript 3.0 components. You can download more components built by Flash community members by choosing ...