Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio

Linear Flash movies - the ones that play and then, well.stop - are all well and good.

They can be a good platform for cartoonists and motion type artists to showcase their stuff.

But it's the non-interactive and uninterruptable aspect of these Flash events that has given Flash a bit of a bad name amongst usability gurus. "Skip Intro" is now a byword for pointless Flash filler.

But it doesn't have to be that way. By using client/server coding, and hooking up your Flash GUl to a dynamic back-end database, cutting-edge Flash 5 Dynamic Studio is written by a collective of Flash 5 experts who will tell you everything you need to know to upgrade your Flash 5 knowledge to Flash 5 expertise.

Assuming a basic knowledge of Flash, the book gives you a through grounding in ActionScripting techniques, teaches you the basics of a myriad of scripting languages Flash interaction, discusses and implements client-side/server-side interaction, the middleware that can make your life considerably easier (Ultradev, Generator, Swift Generator, ASP Turbine), and demonstrate database (Access, SQL, and MYSQL) interaction and usability.To conclude this admittedly tough but not prohibitive learning curve, the book walks you through a selection of fairly generic real world case studies, using Flash with middleware and database connectivity, demonstrating how these elements come together to give you truly dynamic, interactive Flash sites.

This book is about visual richness and utility. Web business is getting beautiful, and Flash is getting useful.