Happy to announce that in light of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 announce; my newest video course with video2brain has now been published!
Adobe Flash Professional CS6: New Features Workshop
Learn What’s New and How It Affects You
In this course, Flash authority Joseph Labrecque looks at the new features available in Flash Professional CS6 and shows you how to incorporate them into your workflow. You’ll learn about the awesome new mobile simulator and new export options like sprite sheets and PNG sequences, as well as less obvious additions like advanced debugging and publish options. You’ll also see what features have been removed and how that affects what you do in Flash Professional.
In this workshop you’ll learn all about the new and upgraded features in Adobe Flash Professional CS6. The contents of this course include:
Introducing Flash Professional CS6
This chapter introduces Flash Professional CS6 and provides a quick overview of the new features we’ll cover in this course.
Exporting Assets
This chapter will look into some of the exciting new export options that are included in Flash Professional CS6.
Mobile Content Simulator
This chapter provides a detailed examination of the new Mobile Content Simulator. This exciting new tool greatly speeds up the testing of mobile-specific APIs using enhanced simulation.
Debugging
This chapter explores some of the debugging enhancements included in Flash Professional CS6.
Publishing Options
This chapter will examine enhancements to the various publishing options that are now available. We’ll also examine new functionality such as captive runtime support and ANE integration.
Additional Considerations
This chapter wraps up the course with some thoughts on the future of Flash Professional and the platform in general.
If you are looking for something more comprehensive: I have a Adobe Flash Professional CS6: Learn by Video: Core Training in Rich Media Communication course that will be released soon as well.
Hello! I just stumbled upon your site in search of an answer to the “designing for mobile devices” question.
I am a graphic designer, w/ SOME experience in website design. I’m in need of building a site for my portfolio which I was GOING to build in Flash in order to showcase some of my Flash skills. Now though, I’m not sure what to do since I don’t want to build 2 sites –
I realize this is not a new question in the web design world, but can you give me some advice on what would be the best option for me to still be able to add a few cool rollovers and animations while not compromising the accessibility & not creating 2 sites?
Thank you in advance!
Vineeta Hendry
This question increasingly has to do with what platforms you are targeting. If you are building a website – to be accessed via browser – and employing simple rollovers and such: I’d probably go with something like jQuery or even Adobe Edge for this sort of thing.
Flash is a great choice for many types of content but for the widest reach across devices (if you care about iOS) – I’d go with an HTML & Friends solution.
Incidentally, Adobe Edge is quite simple for Flash designers to pick up :)
I agree with Joseph to a point. It DOES depend on your target platform. However, you’re specifically saying you’d like to showcase your Flash skills. If that’s the case I think you should build it twice. Building things twice, three times over is pretty much a Flash skill these days because of our crazy ecosystem. In fact, you’ll usually find that you make it better the second time JUST because you’re doing it again.
You may want to get creative and build smaller components rather than a full page Flash site. Swap things out where you can with Flash and really use its capabilities to outshine what you can do in CSS/JS.
Make those components degrade gracefully from Flash to HTML.
That’s my suggestion anyways!
Have to agree that Ben’s perspective is also quite valid! Nothing wrong with having a Flash experience with fallback to HTML & Friends :)