COMPREHENSIVE FLASH TRAINING

Flash training courses: Beginner, advanced, bespoke & on-site options available

We at Maddison Multimedia Ltd. are experienced in providing on site Flash Training courses for a number of large corporate associations. Gazette Media Company, NCJ Media and the Press Association have all benefited from our bespoke training.

If you wish to speak to us about putting together a training plan for your business or individual within your organisation please get in touch. We currently offer three training options; a beginners course, an advanced course which includes Actionscript and a bespoke training option. Each of the options is detailed below. Courses start from just £250 per day.

Level 1 Flash
Course Outline
This two day course provides trainees with the knowledge, skills and hands-on experience they need to create rich media featuring animation, video & sound. No previous experience of Flash is required, however, trainees should be competent users of a PC.

Objectives
Trainees will learn how to:
Set up a Flash movie and modify the appearance of the Stage, draw shapes, lines & fills, create custom colours, gradients & line styles, manipulate objects, create shape interaction, import graphics, & text and manipulate its behaviour & appearance, construct & use layers, create frame-by-frame, shape & motion tweened animation and publish their movie.

Training Options
Any of our courses can be delivered on site at your UK office, or at an independent training facility convenient to you.

Included
Included in this training option are twelve Months telephone & email support
Comprehensive course manual with tutorials & exercises.

Course Content
Introduction
The basics of Flash
Creating a new document
Using the Flash interface
Layering Flash elements & layer folders
Creating graphics
Reusing graphics & graphic symbols
Creating a colour swatch
Using colour effectively
Using the drawing tools
Importing graphics
Using the text tool
Using text effectively
Font properties
Embedded & device fonts
Creating static text fields
Masking content
Introduction to animation
Creating animation
Timeline effects
Creating frame-by-frame animations
Tweening
Motion guides
Creating movieclips/buttons
Adding behaviours to buttons
Building a navigational system
Using movieclips for interactivity
Using the timeline for application states
Building a movieclip with different states
Building apps using nested symbols
MovieClip events
Adding/importing sound & video
Using the Flash video components
Publishing Flash for web use
Using Flash and HTML together

Level 2 Flash
Course Overview
This two day Level 2 Flash course provides trainees with the skills, knowledge and hands-on experience needed to build a rich media application for the web with Flash. The course focuses on using symbols, components, behaviours, & data binding to quickly get trainees competent in building Flash applications. Trainees will also be introduced to ActionScript and fundamental programming constructs including functions, variables, loops & conditional logic.

Requirements
Attendees will ideally have attended the Level 1 Flash course or have equivalent experience in the use of Flash.

Objectives
Trainees will learn how to:
Connect to an external data source from a Flash movie, understand and apply ActionScript to control symbols, add dynamic drag & drop elements to a Flash Movie, build an Actionscript controlled site navigation system in Flash & create functions within ActionScript.

Training Options
Any of our courses can be delivered on site at your UK office, or at an independent training facility convenient to you.

What's Included
Included in this training option are twelve Months telephone & email support
Comprehensive course manual with tutorials & exercises.

Course Content
Introduction
Placing content on screens
Architecting a site with screens
Building Flash applications with screens
Navigating screens
Using screens to build a menu
Adding and organizing content
Adding user interface components
Layering Flash elements & layer folders
Importing graphics
Introducing ActionScript
Using the basic elements of ActionScript
Manipulating components with ActionScript
Debugging ActionScript
Understanding ActionScript best practices
Understanding dynamic content
Connecting to external data
Creating a master-detail RIA
Binding results to a ComboBox
Using the XML data binding component
Handling user events on UI components
Storing data in variables
Populating a TextArea
Storing data in variables
Controlling application flow
Controlling interaction between components
Using conditional logic
Implementing drag and drop on movie clips
Using/reusing a MovieClip from the library
Using the hitTest() method
Using dragging behaviors
Reacting to MovieClip events
Using built-in classes
Using the returned data
Reading the data from the text file
Using data from a text file
Using TextField & TextFormat
Introducing object-oriented terminology
Referencing an external ActionScript file
Introducing functions
Reusing code with functions
Using global functions
Creating user defined functions
Building a navigation system
Using screens to build a sub-menu
Navigating external SWFs
Sending data out of Flash
Understanding forms
Submitting user data using forms
Submitting a form

Bespoke Training
If the Flash training you require isn't covered by the above two courses, we can put together a course which is designed with your needs in mind. A bespoke (a course written to your specific needs) one day, two day or three day course can be designed and delivered to up to 15 delegates at your workplace and can be as broad or as specific as you wish. It could focus on how to build an effective navigation system, or how to build Flash games for example. Or maybe you'd like a course which focuses entirely on accessibility, compatibility and search engine optimisation within Flash. If you'd like to discuss your training needs further, please get in touch and we will be more than happy to talk you through what we can offer you.

Please get in touch if you have any questions about our training.