Week 14

Monday * April 12

Making your Flash movies ready for prime time: (1) positioning Flash movies with CSS; (2) Flash version detection; (3) demystifying the Flash object parameters; (4) the Bandwidth Profiler; (5) optimizing Flash files to reduce "weight."

DUE Nothing! The Flash Project is due NEXT WEEK

READ Lesson 10 in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book (ACiaB).

EXAMINE Grey Shines the World (from Japan): Turn up the volume! Click everything! It's worth the (long) wait for the download. You'll see!

Screen capture: Grey Shines the World Screen capture: Grey Shines the World

Notes * * *

One of the big criticisms of Flash is that it creates "heavy" files, meaning the files are too big. I would argue that people who create heavy Flash files don't know how to use Flash properly.

This week's stuff is kind of tedious, I'll admit -- but knowing how to deploy Flash files that are light and optimized is the mark of a professional.

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