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The Web Wizard’s Guide to Shockwave teaches readers with no programming experience how to quickly create interactive content for the Web. From planning and preparing a project, to creating complex interactions, this quick and easy-to-understand introduction to Shockwave will show readers how to create well-designed, exciting Web sites in no time!

• Helps readers understand the possibilities for interactivity that Shockwave offers, and gets them started building Shockwave projects.
• Shows how to prepare text, images, sound, and video files for inclusion in a Shockwave project.
• Takes readers through the process of planning and building an interactive, multimedia Web experience in a step-by-step manner.
• Shows how to use the Stage, Score, Cast, and Scripting features of Macromedia Director Shockwave Studio.
• Provides a hands-on tutorial in how to build a Shockwave project.
• Teaches how to use Lingo scripts to build interactivity.
• Written in accessible, step-by-step writing style.
• Provides full color screenshots and code example.

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1. Shockwave: The Possibilities

• Examples of Shockwave on the Web
• The Seven Forms of Interactivity
• How Shockwave works
• When to use Shockwave

2 The Shockwave Development Environment

• Director’s Stage, Cast, and Score
• Actors: Text, Images, Sound, Music, Video
• Time: Frames, Scenes, Movies, and Markers
• Movement: Sprite Channels, Animation, and Position
• Scripts: Behaviors and Lingo
• Creating a simple production

3 Planning and Preparing

• Organizing and labeling the production
• Listing the Actors
• Preparing the media elements: Text, images, sound, video
  

4 Putting the Cast On the Stage

• Marking the scenes
• Importing and Arranging the Actors
• Principles of Set Design
  

5 Making Things Move

• Frame Animation Concepts
• Tweening
• Synching the sound

6 Building Basic Interaction

• Click and Go
• Stop and Loop
• Rollover Actions
• If – Then Logic

7 Creating Complex Interaction

• Moveable Sprites
• Variables
  
• Animating with Lingo Scripts
• Switching Cast Members with Scripts
• Text Functions with Lingo
• Interacting with Video
• Interacting with Web Resources
  

8 Publishing and Embedding the Results

• Creating a Shockwave file
• Testing the Project on the Web
• Embedding Shockwave into a Web Page
• Predicting the User Experience
  

Supplements
Instructor’s Manual, available online

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To order The Web Wizard's Guide to Shockwave, ask your bookstore for ISBN 0-321-12172-4

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