Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction (OReilly Digital Studio)

Ubiquitous is the word for the Flash multimedia format. The Flash Player plug-in is installed on just about every computer on the Internet, so many a modern web site uses Flash for mission-critical features like navigation and advertising without giving it a second thought. The prevalence of Flash pretty much guarantees it a place of honor among Dreamweaver's site-build-ing tools. The fact that Macromedia produces both Flash and Dreamweaver doesn't hurt, either.

This chapter shows you how to place Flash movies on the pages of your site in an aesthetically pleasing and reasonably accessible form. It also gives you a tour of Dreamweaver's special Flash features, which require no outside authoring tools.