Flash CS4 For Dummies
Chapter One
Getting Acquainted
with Flash CS4
In This Chapter
* Introducing Flash
* Figuring out what you can create with Flash CS4
* Knowing when not to use Flash CS4
* Starting Flash
* Perusing the screen
* Using Help
* Creating your first animation
* Closing Flash
Once upon a time in a galaxy that seems far, far away
by now, there was the Internet, which contained
only plain, unformatted text. Then came the Web, and
we gained text formatting and graphics. Then the
Web grew up a little, and Web page graphics got
fancier with things such as small animations in
banner ads. But people, being used to movies and
TV, wanted an even more animated and interactive
Web experience. Along came Flash.
Flash, once from Macromedia but now from Adobe
Systems, is the software that runs some of the coolest
Web sites around. When you surf the Web and see sites
that contain animation across the entire page or buttons
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