[.ca] Macromedia Flash MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual ... (ISBN 0201794810)

With concise easy-to-understand instructions:
Macromedia Flash For Windows & Macintosh by Katherine Ulrich (a specialist in graphics, publishing, and multimedia software) is a 613-page visual quickstart guide, intended for beginning through intermediate level users, and which combines pictures with concise easy-to-understand instructions and examples for swiftly assimilating the basics of how to use Macromedia Flash MX. An expertly written and highly accessible teach-yourself book, easy to grasp and follow, Macromedia Flash For Windows & Macintosh is a welcome and invaluable addition to any Macromedia Flash MX user's reference shelf.

WOAH! Flash!:
WOAH! I read this book and now I can make stupid animations of dancing monkeys! Seriously though, this is a big, thick, thorough book of Flash stuff. If you need to know it, it's probably in here. My only problem with it is that maybe it could be organized better. I have trouble finding some subjects I was needing help with.

Very Helpful:
I bought this book to go with a class I took in Web and Graphic Design. Everythign is layed out clearly in te book and its easy to follow and read. Most manuals are hard to read cover to cover, but this one youc an do that instead of just reading the section youa re trying to learn. The book is a great reference to have around when you are workign in Flash and can't rememeber some small thing.

Excellent resource!:
This visual quickstart guide functions both as a tool for getting up and running quickly with Flash MX and as a reference resource once you're working with the software. I highly recommend this book to beginner-intermediate Flash users.

Basic information, poor organization, useless index:
This book is a descent resource of basic information; that is, if you can find it. That's the most frustrating thing about this book is that it suffers from poor organization and a horrible index that follows it's own inexplicable logic. E-mail links? No listing in the index. Same for such basic terms as: pop-up windows, navigation, browser windows, publishing, windows, importing, and printing. It was easier and less frustrating to flip through the entire book than to try to figure out the logic of the index. If you chance on some information that you may need, put a placeholder or a stickynote there immediately; you may never find it again.