Training DVDs

Flash CS4 (Essential Training DVD)

screen garbs from the training DVDIn Flash CS4 essential training Emily Kay shows you the ins and outs of working with this powerful application and quickly gets you up and animating. This training is tailored specifically to the needs of a beginner or intermediate user of Adobe Flash CS4. Emily offers new Flash users a thorough explanation of the interface, tools, and techniques at the heart of any project. She shows how to use the latest iteration of the Flash drawing tools and timeline, work with text and symbols, and create tweens and other simple animations as well as explores all of the new CS4 tools. Emily also covers integration of multimedia elements like bitmap graphics, sound, and video. She shows how to use ActionScript 3.0 to add interactivity and enhance functionality to Flash projects as well as key aspects of working with Flash CS4 to create professional animations and design interactive websites.

By the time you have completed Flash CS4 essential training you will have the confidence, experience and tools to effectively utilize flash when constructing your own eye-catching flash projects and rich media websites.

Some of the topics covered include:

    • Overview of tools
    • Working with symbols
    • Working with the timeline
    • Creating animations
    • Frame-by-frame animations
    • Motion & shape tweening
    • Using the new Motion Editor
    • Working with masks
    • Using the new bones tool
    • Importing bitmaps and vector artwork
    • ActionScript 3.0 basics
    • Creating interactivity with action script
    • Working with movie clips
    • Loading external media
    • Integrating video & sound
    • Creating a preloader
    • Scrolling text boxes
    • Making a slide show
    • Building a full flash website
    • plus much more!
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets (Essential Training DVD)

screen garbs from the training DVDThis video based training DVD is designed to be a comprehensive learning tool for CSS, one of the most widely used and exciting enhancements you can add to your webpage designs. You will learn terminology and real world application of why and how to use this language. The course focuses on practical design uses of CSS with real world examples. This training DVD goes at an accelerated pace so you'll be sure to get lots of valuable information.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to develop a pure CSS website, utilizing CSS to format layout, forms, tabular data, image galleries and many more exciting topics.

Some of the topics covered include:

    • What is CSS? Why use it?
    • Different types of styles
    • Divs and Spans
    • Using Contextual Selectors
    • Classes and IDs
    • Pseudo classes
    • Working with Fonts
    • Using Lists effectively
    • Understanding the box model
    • Position Property
    • Styling Tables
    • Floating and Clearing
    • Multi-column layouts
    • Using Images
    • Creating Rollovers
    • CSS Menus (including drop downs)
    • Styling Forms
    • CSS for print and handhelds
    • Advanced techniques such as sliding panels, creating tooltips, image pop-ups
    • plus much more!
Flash CS3 (Essential Training DVD)

screen garbs from teh training DVDThis video based training DVD is designed to be an introduction to Flash CS3, you will learn how to use all of the tools, create animations, use action scripting to control your project and create some interactivity. This class is an accelerated course, we will be covering a lot of material in a short amount of time.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to use Flash to design a functional, non-linear website, be able to incorporate sound and video into their site and understand the basics of action scripting (Flash's powerful scripting language).

Some of the topics covered include:

  • Overview of tools
  • Working with symbols
  • Working with the timeline
  • Creating animations
    • frame-by-frame animations
    • motion tweening
    • shape tweening
  • Working with masks
  • Using motion guides
  • Importing bitmaps and vector artwork
  • Working with character animations
  • Basic scripting
  • Creating interactivity with action script
  • Working with movie clips
  • using dot syntax
  • Integrating sound
  • Integrating video
  • plus much more!
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - Essential Training DVD
with Zak Ruvalcaba

In Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training, instructor and Dreamweaver author Zak Ruvalcaba delves into the many powerful features of the latest version of this powerful web design application. The DVD covers everything from the simplest basics of using Dreamweaver CS3 to applying it to develop a fully interactive site. Zak explains the new interface features, and demonstrates how to create, edit, manage, design, and publish a professional website with Dreamweaver CS3.

Adobe Flash CS3 - ActionScript for Designers DVD
with Zak Ruvalcaba

To fully take advantage of Flash, it's necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of ActionScript. From manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables to writing functions and conditional operators, this Flash CS3 ActionScript for Designers DVD covers the vital skills necessary to master ActionScript. Instructor and author Zak Ruvalcaba uses numerous hands-on examples including game-building, developing a full-functioning MP3 player, a video player, an image slideshow, and much, much more.