Flash Banner Ads Introduction
2 day training course
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Flash is the industry standard software for visually rich interactive content enhanced with audio and video for delivery via the web or as standalone content for presentations, training and learning material. It is also used extensively to create eye catching banner ads on websites.
This course is designed to be an introduction for those wishing to learn how to use Flash to create banner ads for websites. The main features of the software will be explored in detail.
The course is delivered through instructor led, hands-on exercises tempered with overviews, demonstrations, discussions and individual practice.
Suitable For
Those completely or fairly new to Flash looking to create visually rich, animated banner ads for web delivery.
Prerequisites
A good working knowledge of the computer and its operating system - for example to be at ease with: opening, closing, saving and locating files; using standard menus, commands and windows.
Course Content
- Overview of Flash content, file types, workflows and delivery options
- FLAs, SWFs, bitmaps, sound, video, web delivery, standalone delivery, importance of version.
- Getting acquainted
- The main workspace, Library, Timeline, Property Inspector, previewing, publishing.
- Working with graphics
- Strokes, fills, gradients, patterns, transparencies, text.
- Creating and editing symbols
- Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files, symbols, colour effects, blends, filters, 3D effects.
- Adding animation
- Animating position, pace, timing, transparency, filters, 3D animation.
- Creating interactive navigation
- Buttons, managing user clicks with ActionScript 2 & ActionScript 3, implementing timeline navigation, transition effects, linking to web pages.
- Publising Flash documents
- Testing, Bandwidth Profiler, optimisation techniques to reduce file size, publishing for web delivery delivery.
Suggested Follow-On Courses
Flash CS5 - Intermediate.
ActionScript 3 - Introduction.
