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April 20, 2005

How to Create Flash with Dreamweaver

This week in class we covered the following topics:

In Dreamweaver:

• 10 Steps to Create a Site
  1. Start by drawing a page
  2. Begin Storyboarding (again, on paper)
  3. Decide on a layout that portrays that storyboard
  4. Freeze static elements of the design
  5. Break the design into reusable modules
  6. Assign "editable regions" or areas that will change from page instance to page instance
  7. Either create a Template in DW or use includes for the reusable elements
  8. Create the rest of the page instances
  9. Test publish to staging server
  10. Final publish to live site
• Back up your site by creating a duplicate site and putting to another local folder
• Check 'Put dependent files' to just back up a few files and their associated images, etc
• Insert > Media > Image Viewer
• Insert > Media > Flash Text
• Insert > Media > Flash Button
• The Flash Video Kit
  • Example 1: Surfing
  • Example 2: Snowboarding
• Anatomy of a Bug
  • Subject
  • Platform
  • Description
  • Steps
  • Actual Results
  • Expected Results

In Code:

• The Power of phpinfo()

Homework:

Follow the steps above to create a new site from scratch. Before you begin, take a look at some free Flash to incorporate into your design:

• Google Search for "Free Flash swf"

Final site should have the following characteristics:

• Original and different from your previous designs
• More than two pages of complete content
• Some kind of Flash embedded in your design
• Published to your domain, URL sent to the class

Next week: Stump the Master!

Posted by at April 20, 2005 08:29 PM