by By Gabby Hyman
gabby.hyman@hqpublications.com
Design Programs Columnist
Designers can go far in their professional careers by programming Macromedia Flash animations. The robust program has cemented its reputation at the hub of mainstream digital design. With a beginning level of Flash training, you can build animated web sites, advertisements, feature cartoons, and presentations.
These days, however, if you want to provide a full-range of Flash services to your clients, you'll need to program ActionScript. Using ActionScript, you can develop interactive menus or click-on-the-fly messaging that has become instrumental part of animated websites, advertisements, and online games. There are flash training courses everywhere; these days, you can qualify you for coding in short order.
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Scripting Flash in the Classroom
At many design schools Flash ActionScript training is taught as part of a comprehensive Flash MX intermediate program. You'll find classes at specialized schools or through the Web in online learning environments. There are also short-term intensives. ActionScript courses offer hands-on training that combines your artistic creativity with new analytical skills.
For many classes, you'll need to know HTML basics as well as have an intermediate Flash working knowledge. Ideally, to build your business, you should find ActionScript classes that lead to Macromedia certifications or certificates.
ActionScript in a Nutshell
Flash video training that includes an ActionScript component will teach you how to create an object that you manipulate with code. The code activates buttons or menus that allow the user to select variables embedded in the animation.
From the developer's end, the menus can trigger movie clips, shapes, masks, sound, and text. Flash training is modular, and if you can follow the sequence of the class, you'll be writing successful ActionScript in no time.
About the Author
Gabby Hyman has written for print and online media for more than 20 years. He has created online content for eToyds, GoTo.com, Siebel Systems, Avaya, and Nissan UK. He has also been a web consultant to the Governer of California. As an author of fiction, journalism, and poetry, Gabby is a former English professor for the University of Illinois, University of Alaska, and Old Dominion University. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Alabama.
Tuesday, March 15, 2004
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