Flash Introduction

Scenario & Questions

Here are the specific questions your manager has given to you:

1. What is your experience with Flash?
2. If Flash is so great, why aren't more people using it to develop Web sites?
3. Why use Flash? What can it do that HTML cannot do?
4. Why would you NOT want to use Flash?
5. What effects and/or features are you particularly interested in learning? (Provide URL's for a few sites that look interesting to you.)
6. What are some guidelines for effective (non-annoying/frustrating) use of Flash? Share some good and bad examples of Flash.
7. List and briefly describe the main parts of the Flash interface (Stage, Work Area, Timeline, Toolbox, Toolbar, Panels, Library, Controller).
8. Define Layers, Frames, Keyframe, and Playhead.

Instructions:

To answer your boss's questions, form groups (3 or 4 people) and spend about 30 minutes BROWSING Flash Web sites as a group.

Then browse the other links on the Flash Resources page (general Flash sites, reviews and opinion articles, techniques and tutorials, and examples).

Finally, skim through chapters 1-2 of your textbook.

End Product

Type your answers in a Word document (one per group, rough draft ok). Print out your assignment and hand it in to your teacher.